{"id":104908,"date":"2024-03-27T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-12-billion-ahead-of-tuesday-night-drawing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T00:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:07:05","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-12-billion-ahead-of-tuesday-night-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-12-billion-ahead-of-tuesday-night-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot surges to $1.12 billion ahead of Tuesday night drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-26\/GettyImages_MegaMillions_032624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Mega Million&#8217;s jackpot swelled to $1.12 billion after no winners were selected in last week&#8217;s drawing. The next drawing is Tuesday night at 11 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth time the Mega Millions jackpot prize has surpassed $1 billion. If won Tuesday night, this would be the fifth largest prize in the history of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 3, 8, 31, 35 and 44, plus the gold Mega Ball 16.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 30 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 $537.5 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 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>The largest Mega Millions jackpot prize ever won was a $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>Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Mega Million&#8217;s jackpot swelled to $1.12 billion after no winners were selected in last week&#8217;s drawing. The next drawing is Tuesday night at 11 p.m. ET. This is the sixth time the Mega Millions jackpot prize has surpassed $1 billion. If<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-12-billion-ahead-of-tuesday-night-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\/104908"}],"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=104908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}