How To Win Mega Millions Jackpot? $340M For Friday The 13th Drawing

The Lottery's Mega Millions jackpot for Friday's drawing is an estimated $340 million, and whoever wins the jackpot could prove those who think Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.

If there is a winner for this drawing, it will be only the seventh time in the game’s history that a jackpot was hit on Friday the 13th. The cash option for the jackpot is an estimated $204.8 million. The drawing will take place at 11 p.m. EDT.

How to play and check Mega Millions:

Those wanting to win the hundreds of millions of dollars have to purchase a Mega Millions ticket in one of the 44 participating states, Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Nevada, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi and Alabama do not participate in the Mega Millions lottery, according to the website.

Players must "pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 75 and one number from 1 to 15 — or select Easy Pick," the lottery's website states, adding if the numbers match all six winning numbers in a drawing — then it means it’s a jackpot.

Every drawing presents nine different ways of winning, according to the lottery website:

• 5 numbers + gold mega ball match = Jackpot
• 5 numbers + no gold mega ball match = $1,000,000
• 4 numbers + gold mega ball match = $10,000
• 4 numbers + no gold mega ball match = $500
• 3 numbers + gold mega ball match = $200
• 3 numbers + no gold mega ball match = $10
• 2 numbers + gold ball match = $10
• 1 number + gold ball match = $4
• 0 numbers + gold ball match = $2

In case one wins the jackpot, the winner can choose the annuity payment where the reward is paid in one installment immediately, followed by 29 annual payments. According to Mega Millions, each payment value is 5 percent higher than the previous one.

According to reports, the odds of winning Mega Millions are one in 302.6 million, which are actually less than that of winning the Powerball, which is one in 292.2 million.