Mega Millions jackpot soars to $650 million ahead of Tuesday drawing

What are the odds you win the lottery?

What are the odds you win the lottery? You're more likely to be struck by lightning.

Keep your lottery tickets handy this week.

Tuesday will be the next Mega Millions drawing for the tenth-largest jackpot in the lottery’s history. 

Tuesday's drawing marks the 33rd for the jackpot run that began following "the last big win in Virginia on June 27," according to a Mega Millions press release.

FILE - Mega Millions lottery tickets sit inside a convenience store in Lower Manhattan, Oct. 23, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The backstory:

The last time a top-10 jackpot was seen was December, when the prize reached $1.269 billion. 

Mega Millions also says a "game change last April has led to hundreds of millions of dollars more paid in non-jackpot prizes compared to the old prize structure." 

During the last drawing on Friday, 416,751 winning tickets for non-jackpot prizes totaled more than $8.5 million. 

Prior to June's jackpot winner, other major payouts were in Ohio in April, Illinois in March and Arizona in January. 

How Mega Millions works

Dig deeper:

Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23, according to the Mega Millions website. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.