"Friday the 13th Brings Bad Luck for Mega Millions Players as Jackpot Rises for Next Drawing"

A Mega Millions lottery ticket.

No one matched all six numbers in Friday's Mega Millions drawing, which featured a jackpot of $670 million. As no one claimed the prize, the next drawing will offer a top prize of $740 million.

In Friday's drawing, the winning numbers were 36, 43, 52, 58, and 65, with the gold Mega Ball being 16. While there was no winner for the jackpot, a total of 1,256,298 tickets won prizes ranging from $2 to $3 million. Notably, four players matched all five white balls, each taking home at least $1 million.

The upcoming Tuesday drawing will mark the eighth largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. This substantial amount has been climbing since September when a ticket worth $810 million was sold in Texas during the Sept. 10 drawing—the seventh largest in Mega Millions history.

If someone wins on Tuesday, they can choose between receiving $740 million paid out over 29 years or opting for a one-time lump sum of $317.8 million.

Since its launch in 1996, Mega Millions has seen changes in its odds. Initially set at 1-in-52.9-million with drawings featuring 50 white balls and 25 gold balls, by 2013 those odds expanded to an astonishing 1-in-258-million as the game included more white balls (75) and fewer gold balls (15). In a unique move for multi-state lotteries in 2017, Mega Millions reduced its white balls to 70 but increased its gold balls to 25—resulting in current odds of approximately 1-in-302-million.

Tickets cost $2 each and offer better odds of winning smaller prizes at about one in every twenty-four tickets purchased.