The Mega Millions jackpot is closing in on the $1 billion mark again, something that has only happened eight times in the game’s history. No one matched all six numbers in Tuesday night’s (November 11) drawing.
What were the Mega Millions winning numbers?
The winning numbers were the white balls 10, 13, 40, 42 and 46, plus the gold Mega Ball 1. That means the next drawing on Friday, November 14, is expected to reach about $965 million dollars or $445.3 million if you take the cash option.
This jackpot ranks as the eighth largest since Mega Millions began in 2002, trailing only the seven jackpots that have crossed the $1 billion line. The most recent billion dollar prize was a $1.269 billion win in California on December 27, 2024. After four jackpot hits earlier this year, Friday’s drawing will be the fortieth in this current run, which is a new game record. The jackpot has been growing since it was last won in Virginia on June 27.
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In the November 11 drawing, more than 809,000 winning tickets were sold across all prize levels, adding up to more than $27.9 million in winnings nationwide. Three players matched the five white balls to snag second tier prizes. One ticket in Arizona included the 5X multiplier and is worth $5 million. Two others, sold in Iowa and New York, hit with a 3X multiplier and are worth $3 million each.
Twenty seven tickets hit the third tier by matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball. Twelve of them had the 2X multiplier, eleven had 3X, two had 4X, and two in California had 5X. Because of California’s pari mutuel rules, payouts there can differ from standard prize amounts.
A major change last April boosted lower tier prizes across the board. During this run alone, almost $316 million in prizes have been awarded across nearly $13.2 million winning tickets. That includes twenty second tier prizes worth up to $5 million. Eight of those had the 2X multiplier, nine had 3X, one had 4X, and two had 5X.
So far there have also been 299 third tier winners in this run, with prizes ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. These wins have been spread across forty different states and jurisdictions, from Arizona and California to Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
This year has already seen several jackpot wins. Before the Virginia win on June 27 for $348 million, jackpots were claimed in Ohio for $112 million on April 18, in Illinois for $349 million on March 25, and in Arizona for £112 million on January 17.
The top jackpots
The lottery claims that Mega Millions remains the only lottery game to produce seven jackpots worth more than $1 billion, each claimed in a different state. The first was in South Carolina in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine and Florida in 2023, and New Jersey and California in 2024. The record jackpot is the Florida win from August 8, 2023, at $1.602 billion dollars.
Tickets are sold in forty five states, Washington DC and the US Virgin Islands. Each ticket costs five dollars and includes a randomly assigned multiplier, which can be 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X. Half of each ticket sale stays in the state where it was purchased and helps support local programs and retailer commissions.
When are the Mega Millions drawings?
Mega Millions drawings take place at 11 p.m. Eastern Time every Tuesday and Friday in Atlanta, Georgia. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 23, while the odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336. The next drawing is on November 14 at 11 p.m. ET.
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