“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a news release before the jackpot rose again to $1.22 billion.

Friday night's Mega Millions drawing could reveal a winning ticket for the lottery game's fifth largest jackpot: $1.22 billion. The drawing will be held at 11 p.m. ET. The jackpot has been building since its clock was reset on Sept. 13 after someone in ...

Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is worth an estimated $1.22 billion, evoking headlines and likely luring more people to convenience stores with dreams of private spacewalks above the Earth.