{"id":119016,"date":"2026-01-03T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119016\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:59:09","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-rolls-to-180-million-after-no-big-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot rolls to $180 million after no big winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still time to get rich as no ticket matched all six numbers in the latest Mega Millions drawing, sending the estimated jackpot climbing to $180 million for Tuesday\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n<p>Only one ticket sold in Pennsylvania came close, matching five numbers but missing the Mega number. Thanks to a 4x multiplier, that ticket is worth $4 million, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which runs the multi-state game.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s winning numbers were 6, 13, 34, 43, and 52, with the Mega Ball number 4. The estimated jackpot heading into the drawing was $157 million.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing marked the ninth since the last time a ticket hit all six numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball stand at 1 in 290,472,336, the consortium said. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>But why not take a chance and head to your favorite place to buy lotto tickets before tonight?<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, along with the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City News Service contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (Photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) There\u2019s still time to get rich as no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[63040,61656,29481,29482,74,76,75,63041],"class_list":["post-119016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-180-million","tag-january-2026","tag-mega-millions-jackpot","tag-numbers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}