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Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot would be the ninth largest in the game’s history if a lucky winner matches all six numbers.
NEW YORK — At $560 million, Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot would be the ninth largest in the game’s history if a lucky winner matches all six numbers.
The winning numbers for Tuesday’s $560 million Mega Millions drawing were 19-37-40-63-69 Mega Ball: 17 with a Megaplier of 3.
The cash option for Tuesday’s drawing was worth $264 million.
This year has already seen two billion-dollar lottery jackpot winners. One lucky ticket in New Jersey won a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot in March, and a Powerball ticket in Oregon hit the jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion in April.
Mega Millions hasn’t seen a jackpot winner since the $1.13 billion jackpot winner in March.
The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 302,575,350.
Mega Millions winning numbers for Tuesday, June 4, 2024
The winning numbers were 19-37-40-63-69 Mega Ball: 17 Megaplier: 3.
It wasn’t immediately known if any tickets won the jackpot.
When a winner matches all five numbers and the Mega Ball, they have the option to take the full jackpot paid out as an annuity over 30 years, or a smaller lump sum cash payout. Winners almost always take the cash option.
When is the Mega Millions drawing?
Mega Millions drawings take place on Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
- $2.04 billion: Powerball – Nov. 7, 2022
- $1.76 billion – Powerball – Oct. 11, 2023
- $1.586 billion: Powerball – Jan. 13, 2016
- $1.58 billion: Mega Millions – Aug. 8, 2023
- $1.537 billion: Mega Millions – Oct. 23, 2018
- $1.35 billion: Mega Millions – Jan. 13, 2023
- $1.337 billion: Mega Millions – July 29, 2022
- $1.326 billion: Powerball – April, 6, 2024
- $1.13 billion: Mega Millions – March 26, 2024
- $1.08 billion: Powerball – July 19, 2023
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