A clerk prepares to operate a lottery machine to print out Mega Millions lottery tickets for a customer at Tobacco Plus Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in Muncie, Ind. With tickets selling well, the jackpot for tonight's drawing is now at an estimated $636 million, the second-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
December 17, 2013 - 8:09 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa - The numbers have been drawn for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot.
The winning numbers on Tuesday night were: 8, 14, 17, 20, 39; Mega Ball: 7.
It's the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
The Mega Millions jackpot has been growing for weeks because of a game revamp that dramatically lowered the odds of winning the top prize to about 1 in 259 million.
It used to be about 1 in 176 million, nearly the same odds of winning a Powerball jackpot.
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