It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.15 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,

A Mega Millions player may win a big jackpot on Christmas Eve. The lottery prize for the December drawing is now at $1 billion.

If someone wins the Christmas Eve Mega Millions grand prize, it ill be the largest jackpot ever won in the month of December.

Friday's upcoming Mega Millions jackpot drawing could see a player win approximately $1.15 billion. That sum ranks fifth for the lottery's top prizes ever awarded. In 2023, a Mega Millions jackpot drawing yielded a $1.

The Mega Millions jackpot surged to $1.15 billion on Wednesday after no ticket matched the numbers drawn on Tuesday, the lottery said. The next drawing will take place on Friday at 11 p.m. ET, with the cash value of the jackpot estimated to be $516.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24. The Mega Millions game began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.

Mega Millions winning numbers are: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46 and Mega Ball 3. The Megaplier is 3X. 2 Northeast Ohio lottery players win $500K No one matched all the numbers, which means Friday’s jackpot is even bigger.

The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a staggering $1.1 billion for Friday night’s drawing, after no one won in the Christmas Eve drawing.