{"id":44529,"date":"2025-11-08T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:41:10","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-rockets-to-900m-could-tuesday-be-the-lucky-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44529\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot rockets to $900M \u2014 Could Tuesday be the lucky day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sf30.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sf30.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari logo\" class=\"wp-image-9758\"  \/><\/a>A car show in Coronado is reflected in a highly polished Ferrari. Photo by Chris Stone<\/p>\n<p>Feeling lucky? Daydreaming about luxurious vacations? A new sports car?<\/p>\n<p>No one hit all six numbers in Friday\u2019s Mega Millions drawing, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday\u2019s drawing to a staggering $900 million \u2014 the 15th-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>There were also no tickets matching five numbers without the Mega Ball, the Mega Millions Consortium, which runs the game, confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers from Friday were 16, 21, 23, 48, 70, with the Mega Ball 5. At the time, the jackpot was estimated at $843 million.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s drawing marked the 38th since a ticket last matched all six numbers. The odds of hitting all five numbers plus the Mega Ball are 1 in 290,472,336, while the overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.<\/p>\n<p>If someone wins Tuesday, it would be the eighth-largest jackpot in Mega Ball history. The game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game, was renamed Mega Ball in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Six Powerball jackpots have been larger, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-State Lottery Association, <\/a>which oversees the Powerball game.<\/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 contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car show in Coronado is reflected in a highly polished Ferrari. Photo by Chris Stone Feeling lucky?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29480,22715,29481,20634,29482,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-44529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-900-million","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions-jackpot","tag-november-2025","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\/44529","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=44529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}