The Mega Millions jackpot reset to $20 million after a ticket in California had the numbers to claim a $1.22 billion prize in Friday's draw.

The jackpot was last won on on Dec. 27 when a lottery player in California won $1.269 billion - the fifth largest Mega Millions ever. Here are the Mega Millions winning numbers for Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2024: No one hit the jackpot so it will increase to an estimated $42 million with a cash option of $18.8 million for Friday night's drawing.

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot continues to rise after someone won the $1.22 billion prize on December 27. Here are the winning numbers in Tuesday’s drawing:

“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a news release before the jackpot rose again to $1.22 billion.

The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s lottery drawing has climbed to an estimated $1 billion, with a cash option of $448.8 million. The winning numbers were: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46 The Mega Ball drawn was 3 with a Megaplier of 3x.

Did you win the Mega Millions drawing on Christmas Eve? A jackpot of about $1 billion dollars is up for grabs. See the winning numbers here.

Who needs Santa when you could win the lottery? The next Mega Millions drawing is tonight, and the jackpot explodes to $1 billion. How to play.

The odds of matching the five white balls and Mega Ball to win the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. A jackpot winner has the option of taking an annuity or cash payment. The annuity is paid out as one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments, according to the Mega Millions website. Each payment is 5% bigger than the previous one.

Mega Millions players, are you feeling lucky? The winning numbers are in for the Dec. 20 drawing, and the jackpot is huge.