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MegaMillions jackpot now worth over half billion dollars

Over half a billion dollars is at stake in Tuesday night's  MegaMillions lottery drawing.

The jackpot sits at $512 million.

No one matched the winning numbers last Friday, taking the top prize to $493 million.  Brisk ticket sales over the weekend pushed it past the $500 million mark

It’s the second time this year the MegaMillions jackpot has surged past $500 million.  It hit $533 million in March before a single winner in New Jersey claimed that prize.

This $512 million jackpot is the fifth largest ever for the MegaMillions game and 11th largest in U.S history.

Delaware has never had a MegaMillions jackpot winner in the game’s 16-year history.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in just under 302.6 million.

Tom Byrne has been a fixture covering news in Delaware for three decades. He joined Delaware Public Media in 2010 as our first news director and has guided the news team ever since. When he's not covering the news, he can be found reading history or pursuing his love of all things athletic.
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