Mega Million lottery rises to $172 million and online slots players want in

September 7

What's going-on with the US Mega Millions jackpot? It's getting huge that's what. The very popular lottery has been making headlines more often than ever before regarding its high jackpots. With an estimated prize of $172 million bucks for this coming Friday's drawing, many of us may take a break from online slots in order to spend some money playing for a chance to win the gigantic jackpot.

The excitement in Mega Millions is getting almost hotter than hot. For last night's drawing, over 850,000 tickets were winners, including 8 tickets that each won $250,000. Once again, no one won the big prize, the $150 million jackpot. So the jackpot for the Friday, September 9 drawing grows to an estimated $172 million.

Tuesday's winning Mega Millions numbers were 1-8-27-31-50 and the Mega Ball number was 40. Here is a complete breakdown of the 851,196 winning tickets:

The 8 tickets that nearly won the jackpot did so by matching the first five numbers and only missing the Mega Ball number. Those tickets were purchased in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.

Mega Millions is played in 12 US states - California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

Mega Millions lottery drawings happen on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 PM Eastern, 10 PM Central and 8 PM Pacific Time.