(AUSTIN, TX) — The next Mega Millions drawing is just hours away and Texas retailers selling lottery tickets can expect brisk business in the meantime.

From 9 a.m. to 9:59 a.m. today, #Texas had $1,041,860 in #MegaMillions sales. Current hourly Mega Millions sales per minute in Texas are $17,364.

— Texas Lottery (@TexasLottery) October 23, 2018

More than two-billion-dollars will be up for grabs this week in the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots.  There was no winner in either lottery last week.  That means tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot is up to a world-record one-point-six billion dollars.

If you don’t win the Mega Millions, you can go for tomorrow night’s Powerball jackpot of 620-million