Are you the lucky winner? Grad your tickets and take a look at your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot reset after somebody won the $494 million award on October 14.
Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing: 08-35-40-53-56; Mega Ball: 11; Megaplier: 3X
The drawing's estimated prize is $429 million. About $231 million is the cash option. If nobody wins, the jackpot rises higher for the next drawing.
The odds of winning the jackpot, according to the game's official website, are 1 in 302,575,350.
Players may choose Easy Pick or choose six numbers from two distinct pools of numbers. By matching all six winning numbers in a lottery, a player wins the jackpot.
A lump sum payment or 30 annual payments, each five percent bigger than the last, are both options available to jackpot winners.
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