To guarantee you win the Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday, you would need to purchase exactly 290,472,336 tickets, all with different number combinations. As simple as it sounds, the costs will add up, especially with the increased costs of Mega Millions tickets: a play that used to cost you $2 will now set you back $5.

Mega Millions tickets are $5 each and can be played in 45 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets can be purchased until 10:45 p.m. on the night of a given drawing. "I’d be the first one out of our group of friends to see them."

The Mega Millions jackpot is at $714 million ahead of Tuesday night's drawing — after someone in Massachusetts won $50,000 playing the game on Friday.

The Mega Millions® jackpot surges past $700 million for only the ninth time in the game’s history for the next drawing on Tuesday, October 2

Mega Millions’ largest jackpot of $1.6 billion was won in August 2023 in Florida. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix, and the winner chose the cash option of $794.2 million. Mega Millions tickets are $5 each and are sold in 45 states, Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier. Drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Fridays.

A Mega Millions player fell one number short of winning the jackpot, but still won a huge prize. The ticket for the Oct. 24 drawing was bought in Connecticut, according to the Mega Millions website. The player matched five of the winning numbers but missed the Mega ball. With a multiplier of 2, the player won $2 million.

There was a $2 million Mega Millions winner in Connecticut on Friday night. The winning numbers were 11-18-31-51-56 and Mega Ball was 24. The $2 million winning ticket matched five numbers, but not the Mega Ball,

At the time of the writing of this article, the price of one of the decadent bars on the Fix Dessert Chocolatier website was $40.57. The Mega Millions jackpot winner could have enough dough to buy 17,599,211 Dubai chocolate bars.