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:

Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is $1.15 billion; Thursday’s Ohio Lottery results Dec. 26, 2024, 11:38 p.m. 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.

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.

Friday's Mega Millions jackpot stands at $42 million with a $18.8 million cash option. Here's what to know about the Mega Millions: Latest Mega Millions winning numbersStart the day smarter.