Mega Millions jackpot for New Year's Day drawing is eye-popping - OregonLive.com

Impatient to get your “champagne wishes and caviar dreams” off to a New Year’s start?

The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday and the jackpot is an estimated $415 million.

Nobody won Friday’s drawing in the national lottery game. Tickets are $2 a pop.

Here’s what the Oregon Lottery has to say about the game:

Every Tuesday and Friday at 7:59 PM, Mega Millions numbers are drawn from two sets of numbers. Five white balls are drawn from one set of 70 numbered balls. One yellow Mega Ball is drawn from a second set of 25 numbered balls.

In October, the nation was gripped in Mega Millions mania because the jackpot had soared beyond a billion dollars. Here are the nine combinations that win and the astronomical odds of winning that jackpot.