Mega Millions Jackpot Grows To $363 Million Ahead Of Drawing

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Mega Millions lottery players with big dreams are driving Tuesday’s jackpot ever higher. As ticket sales pick up, lottery officials bumped up the estimated top prize by $7 million to $363 million.

Tuesday’s jackpot is one of the biggest jackpots in U.S. history. Two tickets in Georgia and New Jersey split the highest jackpot ever, worth $390 million, back on March 6, 2007.

No matched the winning numbers for last Friday’s jackpot of $290 million. Those numbers were 6-17-19-20-21 with a Mega Ball of 20.

The pot has been growing since an Atlanta woman won $72 million in Jan.

The odds of winning are about 1 in 176 million and if you take the lump sum, it would be around $255 million.

For more information, visit www.megamillions.com.

CBS NY

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