No one won the Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, bringing the new jackpot to $260 million. The next drawing is Tuesday.
TRENTON -- The next drawing for the Mega Millions lottery will be Tuesday evening and the jackpot is up to $260 million after no one picked the winning numbers Friday night.
The cash value of the $260 million is $173.3 million.
Twenty-five drawings have been held since the jackpot was last hit on March 8 when a Washington man won $157 million by spending $5 at a 7-Eleven in Seattle. He chosen the cash option for a prize of $102.8 million before taxes.
The last Mega Millions win in New Jersey came on May 24 when a $1 million ticket was sold at ShopRite in Branchburg.
Three days earlier, someone who bought a ticket in North Brunswick won $2 million playing Powerball.
The largest prize won by a single lottery ticket in New Jersey occurred last month when a 70-year-old Trenton mother and her seven adult children split a $429.6 million Powerball prize.
For the drawing on Friday, the Mega Millions winning numbers were 32, 54, 65, 66, 71 and the Powerball was 10.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of hitting five numbers are 18,492,204 to 1: buying a jackpot winning ticket is about a 1 in 258 million shot.
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