Mega Millions jackpot hits $900 million for Tuesday night drawing

The Mega Millions jackpot continues to set records, now offering the eighth largest jackpot in the game’s history.

“The estimated jackpot for the upcoming drawing on Tuesday, November 11 stands at a whopping $900 million ($415.3 million in cash),” Mega Millions said in a press release on Saturday.

As it nears the $1 billion mark, it is “only the third time the jackpot has reached this level since the current gaming record of $1.602 billion was won in Florida on August 8, 2023.”

In Friday’s latest drawing, 688,058 winning tickets for non-jackpot prizes totaled more than $13.8 million.

MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT JUMPS OVER $800 MILLION

The last big victory in the game, for which tickets cost $5 each, took place June 27 in Virginia.

Before June’s jackpot winner, others large payments were in Ohio in April, Illinois in March, and Arizona in January.

THE MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS NOW AMONG THE TOP 10 HIGHEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE COMPETITION

A customer scans a Mega Millions ticket to see if it is a winner at Circle K, where the last winning Mega Millions jackpot lottery ticket was sold, in Cottonwood, California, December 28, 2024. (Fred Greaves/Reuters)

The largest Mega Millions jackpot on record, $1.692 billion, was paid out in August 2023 to a winning ticket purchased in Florida.

People wait in line to buy their Mega Millions lottery ticket at a liquor store where winning tickets were sold on December 27, 2024 in Hawthorne, California. (Frédéric J. Brown/AFP / Getty Images)

Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Most purchase cutoff times are set one to two hours before the drawings, which take place at 11 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays and Fridays. Atlanta, Georgia.

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“The overall odds of winning a Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336,” according to Mega Millions.