Get ready, you could go to bed Tuesday night a mega millionaire. The Mega Millions jackpot is $330 million, the fourth largest jackpot in the game's history.
Tickets cost $1 each. To win, a player must match five regular numbers plus the mega ball.
This jackpot has been growing since November 9, when Mega Millions had its most recent jackpot winner. The jackpot has now rolled 14 times without a winner. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately one in 176 million. The odds of winning any of the Mega Millions prizes are approximately 1 in 40.
Mega Millions has awarded 108 jackpots since the first drawing on May 17, 2002. In that time, more than $7.3 billion has been raised in profits for the participating states. Total sales in all Mega Millions states since the first drawing are more than $20.8 billion.
The biggest Mega Millions jackpot -- $390 million -- was split by two winning tickets in March 2007.
