The Brief

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.

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, Il

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