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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 $965 million, the 14th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

There were three tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game, announced.

One sold in Arizona had the 5X multiplier for a $5 million prize. The other two, sold in Iowa and New York, had the 3X multiplier worth a $3 million prize for each ticket.

The numbers drawn Tuesday were 10, 13, 40, 42, 46 and the Mega number was 1. The estimated jackpot was $900 million, and the 14th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

The drawing was the 39th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 290,472,336, according to the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 23.

Both Tuesday’s and Friday’s jackpots are the eighth-largest in the history of the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.

There have been six Powerball drawings with larger jackpots, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the Powerball game

The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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