{"id":168463,"date":"2026-02-07T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:25:18","slug":"wow-mega-millions-jackpot-reaches-366m-after-friday-night-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168463\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Mega Millions jackpot reaches $366M after Friday night drawing"},"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\/02\/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>If you didn\u2019t win Mega Millions on Friday, you\u2019ve got plenty of company \u2014 and another shot at a much bigger prize.<\/p>\n<p>No tickets matched all six numbers in the latest multi-state Mega Millions drawing, sending the estimated jackpot climbing to $366 million for Tuesday\u2019s drawing, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamillions.com\/faqs.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mega Millions Consortium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One lucky ticket did come close. A Minnesota player matched five numbers but missed the Mega Ball, scoring a $3 million prize.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s winning numbers were 13, 21, 25, 52, and 62, with the Mega Ball number 19. The estimated jackpot going into the drawing was $346 million.<\/p>\n<p>The near miss keeps the streak alive \u2014 this was the 19th drawing since the last time someone hit all six numbers and walked away with the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the odds remain steep. The chance of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball is 1 in 290,472,336. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 23.<\/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>Tuesday\u2019s drawing now offers another chance for lightning to strike \u2014 or at least for players to dream a little bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News contributed to this report<\/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) If you didn\u2019t win Mega Millions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[80954,22715,1047,29482,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-168463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-366m-jackpot","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions","tag-numbers","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\/168463","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=168463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}