Mega Millions Climbs to $685M, Recent Winner Claims Dead Dad Told Him to Play

The final Mega Millions drawing off of the year is just hours away. And the lottery game’s largest drafting inwards the final calendar week of the year continues to balloon.

Mega Millions is experiencing a upsurge inwards play, as the time ticks to a close-fitting on 2022. After forecasting that tonight’s jackpot would be an estimated $640 million, the lottery said strong sales inward the 45 states positive DC and US Virgin Islands where the game is played get increased the green goddess to a calculate $685 million.

Should a victor strike the jackpot, they will get the option of receiving the replete(p) pretax note value paid out o'er 30 years through and through an annuity. The winner tin can also opt for a one-time pre-tax cash in defrayal of rough $347.8 million.

There make been 21 sequent Mega Millions drawings without a winner. The last clip the half dozen winning numbers were bang came plunk for on Oct. 14 when two lucky players, ane in California and the other in Florida, stock split a $502 zillion prize.

At $685 million, tonight’s Mega Millions drawing is the 11th-largest drawing prize inward US history. The top of the inning 10 is within sight, as a $687.8 million Powerball award won inward Oct 2021 currently ranks 10th.

To win the Mega Millions jackpot, a fine must correctly place the v drawn snowy balls come out of a pool of 70, plus pick the winning golden Mega Ball out of a kitty of 25. The odds of doing so are a shrimpy unity in a minuscule more than 302.5 million.

Winner Credits Late Father

Millions of Mega Millions players this evening testament prove their chance with a $2 or $3 wager for a potency award that could supply wealth for generations. To subdue such mindless odds of unity inwards 302.5 million, many who win believe a higher powerfulness must have played a role.

Though he didn’t win the jackpot, single recent Mega Millions victor believes his belatedly father helped deliver him some cash. type A MD adult male who won a $40,000 treasure utmost month during the Nov. 18 Mega Millions draftsmanship told the MD Lottery that his idle dad intervened and encouraged him to swordplay the lottery.

The 55-year-old man, who wished to remain anonymous as permitted below Maryland lottery rules, used the nom de guerre “Wezzie Brunswick” to pull in his cash. Brunswick said his father, who was an esurient drawing player, wheel spoke to him during his call in with a psychic.

Brunswick said the psychical register off a serial of numbers that his male parent wanted him to play. He did, and it paid off. Brunswick’s Mega Millions fine matched quadruplet of the white balls and the gold Mega Ball.

The payout for Mega Millions’ third-best award is $10,000. But since Brunswick had purchased the optional $1 add-on Megaplier, and the Megaplier smash on 4x that night, his treasure quadrupled to $40,000.

Tonight’s Drawing

Mega Millions drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday nighttime at 10:59 pm EST from the WSB-TV studios inward Atlanta.

Mega Millions is hoping for an uninterrupted drawing, something that wasn’t the display case inward November, when Powerball pulled its half-dozen numbers for the to a greater extent than $2 one thousand million enter prize. Powerball later explained that on that point was a wait inwards I of its participating lotteries submitting its ticket numbers forward of the drawing.

Powerball is operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). Mega Millions is administered by a consortium of 12 state-run lotteries, to the highest degree notably the GA Lottery, which facilitates the twice-weekly drawings.