Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. A single ticket-holder in Illinois won Tuesday’s drawing. The estimated jackpot for the drawing is $344 million. The cash option is about $159.1 million. Since there was a jackpot winner, the top prize resets to $20 million 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.
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