Someone’s Christmas wish might have been granted as the Mega Millions jackpot reached an estimated $1 billion for the Christmas Eve drawing. The last Mega Millions jackpot claimed was back on Sept.

The Mega Millions jackpot was up to $970 million for the Tuesday night, December 24 drawing. Check your numbers here to see if you won.

A Mega Millions player may win a big jackpot on Christmas Eve. The lottery prize for the December drawing is now at $1 billion.

Players have a 1 in 12,607,306 chance of a ticket matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball and winning at least $1 million. The odds of matching four numbers plus the Mega Ball for a prize of at least $10,000 are 931,001 to 1.

California lottery players are hoping for a very merry Christmas, with Tuesday night’s multi-state Mega Millions jackpot sitting at $1 billion — the seventh-largest prize in the game’s history. No tickets were sold matching all six numbers in Friday’s game, the 29th drawing since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

If someone wins the Christmas Eve Mega Millions grand prize, it ill be the largest jackpot ever won in the month of December.

But for many Americans, this holiday season is also all about lottery wishes. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a jolly $1 billion ahead of a Christmas Eve drawing, after Friday’s drawing failed to yield a winner.

Mega Millions’ jackpot edged closer to the billion-dollar mark after its latest drawing brought no grand-prize winner. The jackpot stands at $825 million.

A lucky winner has finally come forward to claim a huge lottery prize nearly nine months after the winning ticket was drawn.

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $1 billion with a cash option of $439.9 million for Tuesday night's drawing, according to the Mega Millions website. It will still be the seventh largest Mega Millions ever and the 12th largest U.