Numbers drawn in $830 million Mega Millions jackpot
The cash option for Tuesday's Mega Millions $830 million jackpot drawing is $487.9 million
A six-digit combination for the $830 million Mega Millions jackpot was drawn on Tuesday.
Tuesday's winning numbers are: 7-29-60-63-66 with Mega Ball number 15.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 303 million.
It is the third-largest Mega Millions jackpot in the game's history. The largest was worth $1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018. That ticket was sold in South Carolina. The second-largest total of $1.050 billion was won on Jan. 22, 2021, and was sold in Michigan.
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A customer fills out a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a convenience store Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Northbrook, Ill. Lottery officials have raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $830 million. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh / AP Newsroom)
Four previous Mega Millions jackpots have been won so far in 2022. The winning tickets were sold in California, New York, Minnesota and Tennessee.
The $830 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing is the fourth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history.
The Mega Millions jackpot was worth so much because there has not been a winner in three months. The 28 consecutive drawings without anyone having a winning six-digit combination allowed the jackpot to continue to grow from its original starting point of $20 million in April.
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The $830 million prize will be paid in 30 annual payments if there is a winner. Most players who win the jackpot select the cash option, which would be $487.9 million for Tuesday's drawing. And about one-third of the cash option would go toward federal taxes, with more potentially going toward state income taxes.
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A lottery ticket vending machine sits at a convenience store, July 21, 2022, in Northbrook, Ill. The last Mega Millions drawing was Tuesday, July 26, 2022, with a jackpot at $830 million. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file / AP Newsroom)
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Drawings are held each Tuesday and Friday and conducted at 11 p.m. ET in Atlanta, Georgia. In the 20 years that the Mega Millions has been played, there have been 202 jackpots won by 227 individual tickets. Twenty jackpots have been shared by two or more winning tickets.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and is overseen by state lottery officials.