$533 million jackpot up for grabs — no one won Friday!
Dante Ulanday - News Moderator 
The Mega Millions jackpot is ballooning again. Friday night, nobody hit all six numbers, sending Tuesday’s estimated top prize soaring to $533 million—and the next lucky winner could take it all.
Two near-misses kept the excitement alive: a Florida ticket with a 4x multiplier scored $4 million, while an Arizona ticket with a 2x multiplier pocketed $2 million, the Mega Millions Consortium reported.
The numbers drawn Friday were 8, 19, 26, 38, 42, with 24 as the Mega Ball. Going into the drawing, the jackpot had been $496 million, and Friday marked the 27th consecutive drawing without a grand-prize winner.
The odds of matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball? 1 in 290,472,336. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 35.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
(City News Service contributed to this report)
