The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday‘s lottery drawing has jumped to an estimated $154 million, with a cash option of $69 million.

The winning numbers were: 7, 18, 40, 55 and 68. The Mega Ball drawn was 18.

No one across the country hit Tuesday’s $139 million jackpot. There were also no second-prize tickets of at least $2 million sold.

Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 18, 30, 33, 55 and 64. The Mega Ball drawn was 11.

For a $5 ticket, the odds of winning the jackpot were previously 302 million to 1. However, on April 8, one Mega Ball was eliminated from the matrix, slightly improving the odds to 290,472,336 to 1.

The odds of winning at least $1 million by matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball are now 1 in 12,607,306, an improvement from the previous odds of 12,629,232 t

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