An individual holds a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Tempe, Ariz., Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. The jackpot for the Tuesday drawing is $785 million.

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An individual holds a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Tempe, Ariz., Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. The jackpot for the Tuesday drawing is $785 million.

Ross D. Franklin/AP

The Mega Millions jackpot hits $785 million, turning into solely its fourth jackpot to surpass $700 million.

After no ticket corresponded to the six numbers drawn Friday, the jackpot will proceed to the subsequent ticket drawing Tuesday. Friday’s drawing noticed over 2.7 million successful tickets with payouts from $2 to $1 million.

“There’s plenty of lottery excitement as the year 2023 gets underway, thanks to a whopping Mega Millions® jackpot set for next Tuesday, January 3!” Mega Millions stated in a press release Saturday.

All Mega Millions jackpots that surpassed $700 million have continued to develop previous $1 billion, in response to Mega Millions. The file Mega Millions jackpot was greater than $1.5 billion received in South Carolina in 2018, whereas the largest jackpot ever received within the U.S. was Powerball’s $2.04 billion. That was claimed in California in November.

The most recent Mega Millions jackpot that surpassed $1 billion was in July, with a successful ticket from Illinois.

Mega Millions tickets cost $2.00 per play, and individuals choose six numbers in hopes that the successful ticket is a match.