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Anyone looking to hit some big money this week may want to take the chance to pick up a few Mega Millions tickets.

With no winners from Friday’s drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot is over $300 million for the first time since in over four months. The estimated jackpot is $316 million with a cash option of $195.5 million.

And with a bigger jackpot, the expectation is that there could be a jump as more people try their luck at Tuesday’s drawing.

There have still been plenty of winners, with the May 10 drawing producing 706,456 winning tickets but none hit the jackpot. The biggest winner included a five white-ball match in Georgia for $1 million. After that, there were 20 tickets that won $10,000, with three qualifying for $20,000 because of the optional Megaplier.

The drawing takes place at 11 p.m. ET.

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