Mega Millions: Here are the winning numbers for the $1B jackpot

(NewsNation) — Feeling lucky this Christmas? The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to $1 billion.

Winning numbers for the Dec 24 jackpot are: 38, 45, 14, 46 and 11. The Mega ball number is 3. Tuesday's Megaplier is 3X.

The grand prize for Tuesday night's Christmas Eve drawing has crossed the billion-dollar mark for only the seventh time in the game's history, according to the lottery. The cash option is $448.8 million.

If someone wins, it would be the largest Mega Millions prize ever in December and only the second win on Christmas Eve.

Overall it's been an unlucky year for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot has only been won three times, the fewest wins in a single year since the game began.

That's not shocking given the probability. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.

To put that in perspective: You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning or attacked by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park (1 in 3.5 million).

The jackpot was last won in Texas on Sept. 10. Since then, there have been 29 drawings but nobody has taken home the grand prize.

Tuesday's jackpot is the seventh largest in Mega Millions history, according to the lottery.

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 each.

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