The Mega Millions jackpot is to a greater extent than $400 billion during the month of May for only when the sec time inward the interstate highway lottery game’s history.
No single matched all 5 snowy balls, positive the atomic number 79 Mega Ball, during shoemaker's last night’s draw. The winning numbers were 7, 8, 20, 36, 39, and the gold Mega Ball 22. The odds of matching all half-dozen balls are a dismal i inwards 302,575,350.
However, more than one one thousand thousand plays won some sorting of value last-place night, the to the highest degree being 667,139 tickets that matched the atomic number 79 clod to win backrest their $2 purchase cost. The betting odds of that are 1 inwards 37.
Two tickets matched all five lily-white balls to win $1 1000000 to each one (odds ace inward 12.6 million), and 25 tickets matched iv whitened balls and the Mega Lucille Ball to win $10,000 for each one (odds 1 inwards 931,001). Two of the $10,000 tickets increased to $30,000 for purchasing the $1 add-on Megaplier, which was tierce in conclusion night.
Jackpot Jumping
Mega Millions now estimates that its jackpot for this Friday’s get is a whopping $430 million. At that number, the jackpot is inching finisher to decorous i of the upper side 10 largest Mega Millions jackpots inward mettlesome history. The 10th-largest Mega Millions win was $437 million back up in 2019, when a single winning fine was sold inward New York.
The Mega Millions jackpot hasn’t been won since Feb 16, when a duo inward New York snagged a $96 zillion bounty. The only if other Mega Millions jackpot win in 2021 came on January 22, when a aggroup of players in Great Lakes State won $1.05 billion, the second-largest win inward the history of the game.
Mega Millions debuted on May 17, 2002, and single lucky player collide with the jackpot on the rattling first tie for a $28 trillion win. Since its inception, the Mega Millions jackpot has been impinge on 194 times past 219 tickets.
Twenty-one Mega Millions jackpots hold been worth $300 jillion or more. The largest to date came inwards October of 2018, when a South Carolina person won the track record $1.537 one thousand million pot.
Today, Mega Millions is played inward 45 states, positive DC, as fountainhead as the US Virgin Islands. The only states that do not take part are Nevada, Utah, Alabama, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Winning Tickets Located
Last night’s deuce winning tickets to each one worth $1 zillion were sold inwards TX and New York.
The New House of York Mega Millions fine was sold at the KM Newstand in New York City, located at 555 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The licensed lottery retail merchant is a paper stand up outdoors the Barnes & Noble bookstore.
In Texas, the $1 jillion winning just the ticket was sold at a Timewise convenience fund inwards Sugar Land. The accost of the gas send is 18725 University Boulevard southwestward of Houston.
Retailers who sell a winning $1 trillion Mega Millions fine invite a $10,000 cash in bonus. Retailers that sell a jackpot win take in $100,000.