NEW YORK — There's still no winner for the Mega Millions jackpot, even as the prize climbs to nearly half a billion dollars.
The numbers are in for Tuesday's $445 million Mega Millions jackpot, after several months without a grand prize winner.
Tuesday's winning numbers were 3-7-11-13-38, Mega Ball 1 and Megaplier 3.
With no big winner from Tuesday night's drawing, the jackpot rose to an estimated $494 million — $248.7 million if the winner takes the more popular cash payout. The lottery game says this is its second-largest jackpot this year.
No one has won the Mega Millions jackpot since July 29, when a single ticket sold in a Chicago suburb won a $1.337 billion prize.
Also Tuesday, no tickets matched the five numbers to win $1 million. Five tickets won $30,000, and nearly 50 won $10,000.
In order to win the Mega Millions grand prize, a player needs to match all five numbers and the gold Mega Ball number. Players face astronomical odds for a jackpot win: 1 in 302.5 million.
Players will have another chance to go for the jackpot with another Mega Millions drawing on Friday.
Meanwhile, Powerball has an estimated $420 million jackpot up for grabs Wednesday as its own winless streak continues, inching the jackpot closer to the top 10 largest Powerball jackpots ever won. The cash value on the prize is $215.2 million.
Nobody won the Powerball jackpot Monday, but three players in Florida, Illinois and Minnesota purchased winning tickets worth $1 million ahead of Monday night's drawing. A fourth winner in Iowa's ticket is worth $2 million because of the power play.
While Mega Millions and Powerball both hit jackpots over $400 million this week, neither come close to last summer's near-record $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot that had Americans in a lottery frenzy in July. A winner in Illinois took home the grand prize. Two people came forward last month to claim it, but chose to stay anonymous.