Mega Millions teeters on hitting $600 MILLION as cash option climbs to $265MILLION after no ticket matched all six numbers in last draw

The Mega Millions jackpot is about to reach $600 million, while the single cash option climbs to $265.4 million.

The grand prize increased by $38 million to an estimated $563 million after no tickets matched the six numbers drawn Friday night.

Friday’s Mega Millions winning numbers were 4, 6, 40, 41 and 60, and the Mega Ball was 11.

The next chance players will have to win the Mega Millions jackpot will be Tuesday.

Mega Millions said it “would be the eighth-largest jackpot in the game’s nearly 22-year history” if anyone were the lucky winner. The largest jackpot in history, $1.602 million, was won in 2023.

In December, two tickets in California split a $394 million windfall after winning the grand prize.

The increase, close to $600 million, came three days after the lottery announced that the jackpot had surpassed the $500 million mark for the first time this year. Mega Millions said this point had been crossed in two cases over the past 12 months.

Two surpassed the $1 billion mark last year: one hit $1.348 billion in January and another hit $1.602 billion in August.

Players have a 1 in 302,575,350 chance of winning a Mega Millions jackpot.

Earlier this month, someone failed to claim winnings from a $36 million Mega Millions jackpot before the 180-day deadline.

The lottery ticket, purchased at a Publix supermarket in Jacksonville, Florida, expired on February 11 and no one showed up to collect the eight-figure grand prize.