Friday the 13th is notoriously unlucky for some people, but this could change everything.
After no ticket matched all six numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, the jackpot has swelled to a gigantic prize of $1.35 billion ($707.9 million cash) for Friday, January 13. If won at that amount, it would be the second-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and the fourth-largest lottery prize ever.
The winning numbers for Tuesday were 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, and Mega Ball 9.
"The jackpot has rolled again, keeping everyone who follows Mega Millions in suspense for yet another drawing," Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, Lead Director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement. "Now at $1.35 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is moving up and making history as the second highest Mega Millions jackpot ever."
Lottery officials say Michigan has been particularly lucky with Mega Millions jackpots on Friday the 13th, winning four of them (June 2008, May 2011, June 2014 and October 2017). That 2017 jackpot was shared with a winner in Rhode Island.
Other jackpots on Friday the 13th have been won in New York (March 2009) and Ohio (November 2015). None of them, however, came close in size to the estimated $1.35 billion up for grabs later this week.
The only Mega Millions jackpot larger than Friday's estimated prize is the game record of $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina on October 23, 2018.
Tuesday's drawing produced several non-jackpot winners; there were a total of 6,154,167 winning tickets at all prize levels ranging from $2 to $3 million, according to lottery officials.
Sixteen tickets from coast to coast matched the five white balls to win the game's second-tier prize. Three of them, one each in Connecticut, Florida and New York, included the optional Megaplier, which was 3X on Tuesday night; those tickets are worth $3 million each.
The other 13 second-tier winning tickets are worth the standard $1 million each; they were sold in California, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts (two), Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio (two), Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Across the country, 215 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game's third-tier prize. Forty-one of those tickets are worth $30,000 each, because they also included the optional Megaplier. The other 174 third-tier winning tickets are worth $10,000 each.
The most recent Mega Millions jackpot win was October 14 at $502 million, shared by winning tickets in California and Florida.
Top 10 US Lottery Jackpots
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from CA)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from CA, FL, TN)
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from SC)
4. $1.35 billion (Est.), Mega Millions - Jan. 13, 2023
5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from IL)
6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from MI)
7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from WI)
8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from MS)
9. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from MD)
10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from CA)
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