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

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.

Players have a 1 in 12,607,306 chance of a ticket matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball and winning at least $1 million. The odds of matching four numbers plus the Mega Ball for a prize of at least $10,000 are 931,001 to 1.

The sole winner of a $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot has begun the process of collecting the prize, the New Jersey Lottery said Monday.

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

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,

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

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

The Mega Millions Jackpot now exceeds $1 billion after no ticket matched the winning numbers drawn on Christmas Eve, the lottery consortium announced. The jackpot grew to an estimated $1.15 billion, or $516.