With no winners of the Mega Millions Friday night, the jackpot now stands at $293 million for Tuesday night's drawing.
TRENTON -- There was no winner in Friday night's drawing of the Mega Millions lottery jackpot so the pot has grown to $293 million. The next drawing is Tuesday night.
If the winner chooses the cash option, it would be $198.2 million before taxes.
Friday night's winning numbers were 34 61 66 67 68, megaball 07.
The jackpot was last captured on March 8 when a Washinton man won the $157 million jackpot by spending $5 at a 7-Eleven in Seattle. He chose the cash option for a prize of $102.8 million before taxes.
The last $1 million Mega Millions win in New Jersey came 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.
A 70-year-old Trenton woman and her seven adult children won the largest single lottery ticket ever in New Jersey when they split a $429.6 million Powerball prize in May.
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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