It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.15 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,

One billion dollars were up for grabs on Christmas Eve as the Mega Millions was drawn. Find out if anyone won the lottery here.

A trip to the package store on Christmas Eve got one lucky patron a winning lottery ticket. The $100,000 winning ticket was for the “ Mass Cash ” game, and was won at Bridgeview Convenience Store in Tyngsboro. That ticket was the only prize above $20,000 in the state on Tuesday.

Mega Millions’ jackpot edged closer to the billion-dollar mark after its latest drawing brought no grand-prize winner. The jackpot stands at $970 million.

If someone wins the Christmas Eve Mega Millions grand prize, it ill be the largest jackpot ever won in the month of December.

A Mega Millions player may win a big jackpot on Christmas Eve. The lottery prize for the December drawing is now at $1 billion.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number are 1 in 302,575,350, according to the California Lottery. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24. The Mega Millions game began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.

A lucky winner has finally come forward to claim a huge lottery prize nearly nine months after the winning ticket was drawn.