{"id":104870,"date":"2024-03-22T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-prize-surges-to-977-million\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:03:33","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-prize-surges-to-977-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-prize-surges-to-977-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot prize surges to $977 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-22\/Getty_032224_MegaMillions2.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Mega Million&#8217;s jackpot has surged to $977 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night&#8217;s drawing. The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 24, 46, 49, 62 and 66 and gold Mega Ball 7.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 29 consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. The last jackpot was won on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot prize has a cash value of $467 million which can be offered as a one-time lump sum payment or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the jackpot is 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>The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was $1.6 billion prize won on Aug. 8, 2023.<\/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; Mega Million&#8217;s jackpot has surged to $977 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night&#8217;s drawing. The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m. The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 24, 46, 49, 62 and 66 and gold Mega Ball 7. There<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-prize-surges-to-977-million\/\">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\/104870"}],"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=104870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}