{"id":158338,"date":"2026-01-31T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:12:09","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-swells-to-323-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158338\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot swells to $323 Million"},"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\/1769890329_578_IMG-20140710-01000-e1405028807944-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lottery tickets\" class=\"wp-image-6575\"  \/><\/a>California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot keeps teasing. With no ticket matching all six numbers in the latest Mega Millions drawing, the prize pool is growing once again, reaching an estimated $323 million for Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket sold in Florida came closest, matching five numbers but missing the Mega Ball. That ticket is worth $3 million, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamillions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mega Millions Consortium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers drawn Friday were 11, 34, 36, 43, and 63, with the Mega Ball 13. The jackpot was estimated at $303 million going into the drawing, which marked the 17th time since a ticket last hit all six numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball are 1 in 290,472,336, while the overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Millions is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service contributed to this rpeort<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California lottery ticket. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) The jackpot keeps teasing. With no ticket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[228,1047,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-158338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-jackpot","tag-mega-millions","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158338","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=158338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158338\/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=158338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}