With no winning ticket sold, Mega Millions jackpot increases to $785 million

The Mega Millions jackpot keeps rolling after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Friday night — the white balls 1, 3, 6, 44 and 51, plus the gold Mega Ball 7.

Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $785 million.

Lottery officials report that on only three previous occasions has the Mega Millions jackpot gone beyond $700 million, and all three times those rolls continued on past $1 billion. One was in January just two years ago, when the jackpot was eventually won in Michigan at $1.05 billion on January 22, 2021. Will history repeat itself with another billion-dollar January win?