$1.35B Mega Millions prize drawing set for Friday night
Mega Millions players will have another chance to end months of losing and finally win a jackpot that has grown to $1.35 billion DES MOINES, Iowa -- Mega Millions players will have another chance Friday night to end months of losing and finally win a jackpot that has grown to $1.35 billion. Plenty of people have won smaller prize s in the lottery Game , but no one has matched all six numbers and won the grand prize since Oct. 14. Those 25 straight drawing s without a winner have allowed the top prize to roll over and grow larger for three months. It's now the fourth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. If there isn't a winner Friday night, the jackpot will inch closer to the record $2.04 billion Powerball prize won last November in California. The long stretch without a Mega Millions jackpot winner is because of the Game ’s steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million. The $1.35 billion prize is for a winner who chooses an annuity with annual payments over 29 years. Winners almost alw...