{"id":108309,"date":"2024-12-27T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-22-billion-ahead-of-friday-nights-drawing\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:03:27","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-22-billion-ahead-of-friday-nights-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-22-billion-ahead-of-friday-nights-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot surges to $1.22 billion ahead of Friday night&#8217;s drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-24\/G_megamillions_122424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lokman Vural Elibol\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to $1.22 billion &#8212; and a winner could take home the fifth-largest prize in Mega Millions history.<\/p>\n<p>The next drawing will take place on Friday at 11 p.m. ET, with the cash value of the jackpot estimated to be $549.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>No one has won the grand prize in the last 30 drawings, as the jackpot has ballooned. The last time the jackpot was won was at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>No ticket matched the numbers drawn on Christmas Eve; the numbers drawn were 11, 14, 38, 45, 46 and gold Mega Ball 3.<\/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>Lokman Vural Elibol\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to $1.22 billion &#8212; and a winner could take home the fifth-largest prize in Mega Millions history. The next drawing will take place on Friday at 11 p.m. ET, with the cash value of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mega-millions-jackpot-surges-to-1-22-billion-ahead-of-friday-nights-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\/108309"}],"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=108309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}