Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is an estimated $843 million, the eighth largest in the game’s history, with odds of winning about 1 in 290 million.

A single ticket holder in Georgia nabbed the state's largest jackpot ever in a Mega Millions drawing Friday night — $980 million. Friday's winning numbers were 1-8-11-12-57 and the Mega Ball was 7. The single ticket was purchased at Publix in Newnan, Georgia, Mega Millions said. Newnan is about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta.

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The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to an estimated $680 million for Friday, October 24, after no ticket matched all six winning numbers in Tuesday night's $650 million drawing. Tuesday's drawing produced no grand prize winners and a single Match 5 winner ...

The Mega Millions jackpot surged to an estimated $965 million for Friday’s drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers in Tuesday’s contest, marking the eighth time the prize has approached the billion-dollar mark since the game’s inception in 2002.