No winner in Tuesday’s Mega Hundreds of thousands drawing. Jackpot reaches $720 million

ST. LOUIS — The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot has risen to an estimated $720 million after no profitable ticket was bought — once more. It’s now one in every of two nationwide lotteries with monumental jackpots however equally monumental odds in opposition to profitable them.

No ticket for Tuesday’s Mega Hundreds of thousands drawing matched the white balls 19, 22, 31, 37, 54 and the gold Mega Ball 18.

The brand new jackpot is Mega Million’s seventh largest-ever, the lottery stated in a information launch. On Monday, the nation’s different large lottery recreation — Powerball — additionally went and not using a winner, and its jackpot now stands at an estimated $1 billion, the third-largest ever for that recreation.

For Mega Hundreds of thousands, the estimated $720 million jackpot within the subsequent drawing would solely be distributed to a winner who chooses an annuity paid over 29 years. Practically all grand prize winners decide to take a money payout, which for Tuesday night time’s drawing was an estimated $369.6 million.

The most important-ever Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot was $1.537 billion received by an nameless participant in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018.

Regardless of the sport’s lengthy odds of 1 in 302.6 million, gamers proceed to buy tickets as the dimensions of the grand prize grows.

The final time a Mega Hundreds of thousands participant hit the highest prize was April 18.

Mega Hundreds of thousands is performed in 45 states in addition to in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.