The summer season is heating up and Mega Tens of millions lottery ticket consumers are shelling out massive bucks for a shot at a giant prize. The Mega Tens of millions jackpot for Friday evening’s drawing has climbed to an eye-popping $743 million, the Tenth-largest within the sport’s historical past.

The numbers for the drawing had been: white balls 2, 5, 42, 44 and 60, and the gold Mega Ball was 1.

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It’s the thirty seventh consecutive drawing because the jackpot reset on March 20. The jackpot grew by $36 million from Tuesday evening’s drawing.

If a fortunate participant wins the jackpot, they will select a one-time money fee of $323.4 million or go for 29 annual funds to obtain the total jackpot prize.

The previous-largest Mega Tens of millions jackpot received this 12 months got here in March, when an nameless participant in Illinois received $536 million.

Final April, Mega Tens of millions modified its sport format and elevated the value of a ticket, promising higher odds of profitable and larger prizes.

Mega Tens of millions raised the ticket value from $2 to $5 and stated the brand new sport’s common jackpot was anticipated to be $800 million or extra, up from $450 million. It additionally elevated the jackpot begin to $50 million, up from $20 million and decreased the variety of Mega Balls in play to 24.