Mega Millions February 19 Drawing Time: When Is The Deadline For $206 Million Jackpot?

It has been nearly two months since anybody won the Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Each passing week without a winner has driven the grand prize up even further, to the point that Mega Millions players will compete for the chance to win more than $200 million on Tuesday.

The next Mega Millions drawing is on Tuesday night at 11 p.m. ET, which is the usual time for each week’s early drawing. Anyone who manages to call all the right numbers will win an estimated $206 million, with a $124.7 million cash option.

Tickets cost $2, requiring players to pick six numbers from two different pools. The first five numbers must be between one and 70, while the last one only goes up to 25. Players who get all six numbers right get the jackpot, but there are smaller prizes for getting a few correct, too.

The last Mega Millions jackpot winner was on New Year’s Day. Someone took home more than $400 million to begin January, only the second time anyone had won the jackpot on Jan. 1 in the lottery’s history.

There was not much good fortune to be found in the last Mega Millions drawing, on Friday. Aside from someone who won $1 million, there were few big victors last week.