“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a news release before the jackpot rose again to $1.22 billion.

The Mega Millions jackpot has reached an estimated $1.15 billion after no one won the estimated $1 billion drawing on Christmas Eve, pushing the jackpot to the fifth-largest prize in Mega Millions’ history,