The jackpot for one of the multi-state lottery games has grown even more over the course of the day.
The Pennsylvania Lottery announced this afternoon that the jackpot for the Mega Millions has grown $20 million to an estimated $830 million annuity prize, with a new cash option of $487.9 million. If won, it will be the third largest Mega Millions jackpot and fourth largest lottery jackpot in history. No one has picked all five regular numbers and the Megaball since April 15, when someone won $20 million in Tennessee. The record earnings is currently held by Powerball, with a $1.586 billion winner in 2016.
The highest Mega Millions jackpot was won in October 2018 with an amount of $1.537 billion.
Tickets can be purchased up to 9:59 tonight. The odds of hitting the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302.6 million.
