It’s time to grab your tickets and check your numbers to see if you’re the big winner. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is beginning to rise after someone won the $20 million prize on April 18.
Here are the winning numbers in Tuesday’s drawing:
08-29-46-47-48; Mega Ball: 12; Megaplier: 2X
The estimated jackpot for the drawing is $26 million. The cash option is about $13.9 million. If no one wins, the jackpot climbs higher for the next drawing.
According to the game’s official website, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Players pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25 — or select Easy Pick. A player wins the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.
Jackpot winners may choose whether to receive 30 annual payments, each five percent higher than the last, or a lump-sum payment.
Mega Millions drawings are Tuesdays and Fridays and are offered in 45 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each.