There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing to $72 million.
There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game.
The numbers drawn Tuesday were 10, 16, 50, 60, 61 and the Mega number was 17. The estimated jackpot was $54 million.
The drawing was the fourth since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The drawing was the first under rule changes including better odds to win the jackpot and any prize, bigger prizes at every non-jackpot prize tier, larger starting jackpots and faster-growing jackpots, according to the Mega Millions Consortium.
With 24 Mega balls instead of the previous 25, the overall chance of winning a prize has been reduced from 1 in 24 to 1 in 23 and the odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 290,472,336 instead of the previous 1 in 302,575,350.
Following a jackpot win, the starting jackpot will reset to $50 million instead of the previous $20 million. If the jackpot is not won, it will typically increase by a minimum of $10 million per drawing, depending on sales, according to the California Lottery.
The Mega Millions Consortium estimates that the average jackpot win will be more than $800 million, up from the previous $450 million.
A multiplier has been automatically included into every Mega Millions ticket, with the original value or non-jackpot prizes doubled, tripled, quadrupled, quintupled or multiplied by 10.
The price of a ticket has increased from $2 to $5, the second increase since the game began in 2002 and first since the current game matrix was adopted in 2017.
With a minimum prize of $10 on a winning ticket in the new game, every winning ticket will pay out at least double the $5 cost for each play. Previously, the minimum prize on a winning ticket and cost to play were both $2.
“Beyond big jackpots, players told us they want bigger non-jackpot prizes and that’s exactly what this new game delivers,” Joshua Johnston, lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium said in a statement.
“Players who had won $2 in the old game will now take home $10, $15, $20, $25 or $50 under this game. Those who had won $500 under the old rules will now take home $1,000; $1,500; $2,000; $2,500 or $5,000 in this new game.”
The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.