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ASSOCIATED PRESS — Lottery players will have another shot at a huge Mega Millions jackpot and a chance to break a stretch of more than three months without a big winner of the game.

Friday night’s estimated $910 million prize has been building since someone last won the jackpot on April 18.

There have been 28 straight drawings without a jackpot winner since then. The jackpot is now the eighth-largest ever in the U.S.

The $910 million prize would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity over 30 years.

Jackpot winners usually opt for a lump sum payment. That would be an estimated $464.2 million for Friday night’s drawing.

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.