The Mega Millions jackpot continues to grow, and Friday’s jackpot is close to $500 million.
As of Thursday afternoon, the jackpot was $494 million. Lottery officials said this is the second largest Mega Millions jackpot for 2022.
Lottery officials said Friday’s drawing will be the 22nd of the current jackpot run, which began Aug. 2 after an enormous prize of $1.337 billion was won in Illinois on July 29.
While the jackpot remains elusive, there were 906,150 winning tickets at all prize levels in the Oct. 11 drawing. Fifty-three tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third prize. lottery officials said.
Five of those are worth $30,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier (an extra $1 purchase available in most states).
The other 48 third-tier tickets win $10,000 each.
Although there was no lottery winner in Tuesday’s drawing, someone in Texas won $2 million by matching five of the six numbers, plus the Megaplier.
