Chance of matching all six numbers and taking home the grand prize is one in 302.5 million

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No one won the latest US Mega Millions lottery drawing, meaning the jackpot has climbed to a staggering $1.6bn.

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Mega Millions officials said no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the estimated $1bn grand prize in Friday night’s drawing. The numbers were 15, 23, 53, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 7.

The next drawing will be on Tuesday. With the jackpot currently tied with the record-setting lottery jackpot and bound to grow before the next drawing, it is bound to become the largest prize in US history.

In January 2016, winning tickets from California, Florida and Tennessee shared a $1.6bn Powerball jackpot. The second-biggest jackpot in US history was also in the Powerball draw, a $758.7m prize won in August 2017 by a hospital worker in Massachusetts.

The current Mega Millions jackpot has been growing since July, when a group of California office workers won $543m.

Mega Millions is played in 44 states as well as Washington DC and the US Virgin Islands. It costs $2 to play the game, but the odds of winning the jackpot are not good. The chance of matching all six numbers and taking home the grand prize is one in 302.5 million.