NEW YORK (WABC) -- Tuesday night's Mega Millions jackpot is now worth a whopping $600 million.

The estimated cash value for the drawing on October 14 is $277.2 million.

Your odds for winning are slightly better than in the past after tickets for the multistate lotter jumped in price to $5 several months ago.

Lottery officials hoped that the swollen jackpots they were expecting would catch the public's attention and lead to an accompanying surge in sales.

"People really want big jackpots," said Joshua Johnston, the Washington state lottery director who heads the Mega Millions game. "We expect to see a sales lift on this."

The odds used to be 1 in 302 million to win the jackpot and now they are 1 in 292 million.

Under the new rules, prizes for tickets not matching all six numbers also

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