Did you end up with a losing Mega Millions ticket on Friday? That’s the largest lottery prize ever, surpassing the $1.59 billion Powerball jackpot drawn in 2016. The previous record for a Mega Millions jackpot was $656 million in 2012. “We’re somewhat in uncharted territory here,” Gordon Medenica, the lead director of the lottery consortium known as the Mega Millions Group, said on Saturday. The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Tuesday.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2018 14:41 UTC