The Mega Millions jackpot is $70 million for the Friday, Dec. 12 drawing, while Saturday’s Classic Lotto jackpot is $1.2 million. Thursday’s winning Ohio Lottery numbers are:

Mega Millions followed a similar path. Its first jackpot winner in 2002 took home $28 million. Its record prize — a $1.602 billion jackpot won on Aug. 8, 2023 — ranks as the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday night’s drawing after lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday night. The U.S. has seen more than a dozen lottery jackpot prizes exceed $1 billion since 2016.

Two lottery players in Massachusetts claimed $100,000 prizes in a scratch ticket game that costs $30 to play. Both winning tickets were from the “ Millions ” game, which was introduced in 2022. The game’s top prize is $15 million. There are three top prizes, two of which have been claimed this year.

US lottery jackpots used to never reach $1 billion. They’ve done it 12 times in 5 years

MLB's fourth amateur Draft Lottery will take place Tuesday night at the Winter Meetings in Orlando. MLB and the MLB Players Association agreed to the lottery as part of the current collective bargaining agreement in an effort to curb tanking and anti-competitive behavior in general. The top six picks are now awarded through the lottery.

A Jacksonville man is $1 million richer. The Florida Lottery announced Friday that 61-year-old Billy Pitman claimed the prize from the $25 million Gold Rush Multiplier Scratch-Off game in November. Pitman purchased the winning ticket from a Winn-Dixie in Jacksonville.