Mega Millions: Did anyone win the $740M jackpot?

The prize has steadily grown over the last few months. A jackpot winner on Friday night would take home the seventh-largest Mega Millions prize in the lottery game's history. 

Mega Millions' most recent winner was an anonymous player in Illinois who won a $552 million jackpot ($260.2 million cash) on June 4. Huge jackpot wins have been the norm in 2024: A ticket sold in New Jersey hit a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot in March, and a Powerball ticket in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion in April. 

The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 302,575,350.

In the six previous jackpot runs that reached this level for Mega Millions, the top prize continued rolling past the $1 billion mark. 

"Strangely enough, there has never been a Mega Millions jackpot won between $656 million (a past world record prize for any jackpot game, won in March 2012) and $1 billion," the lottery game noted online. 

Mega Millions winning numbers for Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

The winning numbers were 6-23-41-59-63 Mega Ball: 25 Megaplier: 2.

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.

The cash option for Friday's drawing is $366.3 million. 

Players who match only the first five numbers win at least $1 million. 

What time is the Mega Millions drawing?

Mega Millions drawings take place on Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.

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