{"id":104754,"date":"2024-03-15T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/815-million-prize-on-the-line-in-mega-millions-drawing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:03:33","slug":"815-million-prize-on-the-line-in-mega-millions-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/815-million-prize-on-the-line-in-mega-millions-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"$815 million prize on the line in Mega Millions drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-15\/Getty_031524_mEGAmILLIONS.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; More than $800 million is on the line in Friday night&#8217;s Mega Millions jackpot drawing, with the grand prize ballooning after 27 consecutive drawings without a winner. The prize grew $23 million on Friday to a total of $815 million due to strong ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>The prize has a cash value of $385.1 million, offered as a one-time lump-sum payment, or the winnings can be paid out as one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing occurs at 11 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize would be the fifth-largest jackpot in the game&#8217;s history behind four billion-dollar winners.<\/p>\n<p>The last jackpot was won on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>There was no big winner in Tuesday&#8217;s drawing, which featured numbers 2, 16, 31, 57 and 64 and a gold Mega Ball of 24, but two people won $1 million each for matching five numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was a $1.6 billion prize claimed on Aug. 8, 2023 in Neptune Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, according to Mega Millions.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 for one play.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; More than $800 million is on the line in Friday night&#8217;s Mega Millions jackpot drawing, with the grand prize ballooning after 27 consecutive drawings without a winner. The prize grew $23 million on Friday to a total of $815 million due to strong ticket<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/815-million-prize-on-the-line-in-mega-millions-drawing\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}