Players Have Shot At $415 Million Mega Millions Prize
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Friday's Mega Millions drawing will give lottery players a shot at the 10th largest jackpot in U.S. history.
Because no one has won a Mega Millions jackpot since March 8, the prize has steadily grown to an estimated $415 million. That makes it the largest jackpot since a $430 million Powerball prize won by a New Jersey family May 7.
The record prize was a $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won in January by players in three states.
New Yorkers were lining up Friday to buy their tickets.
"You have to be in it to win it, right?" one woman in Lower Manhattan told 1010 WINS' Roger Stern. "Any winning is good."
"It's a dream come true, hitting Mega Millions and hopefully get out of this daily routine," another man said.
Winning numbers in the Mega Millions game will be drawn at 11 p.m. The odds of picking the correct numbers on five white balls and one yellow ball are one in 259 million.
Mega Millions is played in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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