Mega Millions $1.6 Billion Jackpot Live Stream: How To Check Winning Numbers

Tuesday night is the big moment when the Mega Millions lottery draw will take place for a jackpot worth $1.6 billion, the largest in U.S. lottery history. The Mega Millions draw will take place at 11 p.m. EDT and can be watched on local TV and online.

The winning numbers will be announced on the Mega Millions website. WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, where the actual draw takes place, will also live stream the event. You can also click here to watch the Mega Millions drawing online on the Powerball-Mega Millions website.

Other TV channels where you can watch the drawing are: WGN-TV (national cable TV), WALB (Albany, Georgia ), WJBF (Augusta, Georgia), 13WMAZ (Macon, Georgia), WSAV (Savannah, Georgia), WRBL (Columbus, Georgia), WBAL-TV (Baltimore, Maryland), WDIV-TV (Detroit, Michigan), WOOD-TV8 (Grand Rapids, Michigan), WLAJ-ABC (Lansing, Michigan), WMKG-CD (Norton Shores, Michigan), ABC-7NY (New York), WSYR-TV (East Syracuse, New York), WBNG-TV (Johnson City, New York), WPTZ (Plattsburgh, New York), 13WHAM (Rochester, New York), WRIC-TV (Richmond, Virginia), WVEC-TV (Hampton, Virginia), WDBJ-TV (Roanoke, Virginia), WUSA-TV (Northern, Virginia), WHSV-TV (Harrisonburg, Virginia).

In order to win the jackpot, you need to match the five numbers and the gold mega ball. The head of the Mega Millions on Monday revealed the very first thing the potential winner should do is to sign the ticket and keep a low profile.

“Sign the ticket! Because keep in mind that little slip of paper is a billion-dollar bill — imagine that,” Gordon Medenica said on NBC’s “Today.” “So you want to secure it and also be calm. Don’t be running to the ‘Today’ show the next day.”

Medenica also advised, “Get some good advice, get a good financial adviser, good lawyer, tax accountant, all that. Get your affairs in order. You’ve got between six months and 12 months to come and claim the ticket.”

The winner will get a chance to opt for the cash option, which would be $904 million, or an annuity, with one initial payment and annual installments over 29 years. The current jackpot has been rolling since it was last won on July 24, when the pot was $543 million, the largest prize ever won on a single ticket in a Mega Millions game.

Jean Adler, the deputy director of the Wisconsin Lottery, told NBC's WMTV there had been an increase in people buying Mega Millions tickets because of the unusually high jackpot.

"Friday our sales were going crazy for lack of a better word," Adler said. "At the peak around 5 o'clock, we were selling over $10,000.00 per minute state wide."

Aly Lawrence, who works at Casey's General Store in Verona, Wisconsin, said: "For most of the time there are maybe, I don't know, five to 10 people a day who get some kind of lottery thing, now it's pretty much every other customer wants Mega Millions, it's pretty crazy."

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. Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah do not participate in the 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. If the numbers match all six winning numbers in a drawing — then it means it’s a jackpot. The odds of winning a jackpot is 1 in 258.9 million for Mega Millions.