At 11:49 a.m. the New Jersey Lottery commission's official Twitter page announced, "Tonight's RECORD BREAKING Mega Millions jackpot is now $640 MILLION!" The cash option for the jackpot — the largest ever — is $462 million.
The drawing for the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history will be held 11 p.m. tonight at WSB-TV in Atlanta.
The odds of one ticket matching five numbers and the Mega Ball and winning the $640 million prize are 1 in 175,711,536.
In Tuesday night's drawing, 47 tickets across the nation — including two in New Jersey — matched five regular numbers but not the Mega ball, according to the Mega Millions website. Each of those tickets is worth $250,000.
The numbers were: 9, 19, 34, 44 and 51. The Mega Ball selected was 24, and the "Megaplier" was 3 for lottery players who plucked down an extra dollar for a shot at bigger prizes.
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