The lottery game hasn’t seen a jackpot winner since April.
WASHINGTON — The Mega Millions jackpot is on the rise with $300 million on the line for Tuesday’s drawing at the same time Powerball’s grand prize is heating up.
Mega Millions hasn’t seen a grand prize winner since April 18, when a 71-year-old man from New York won the state’s largest Mega Millions jackpot ever. Johnnie Taylor of Howard Beach in Queens, New York, won $476 million but opted for the cash option — a lump sum of more than $157 million after taxes.
For Tuesday’s drawing, the cash option came out to $157.2 million.
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