RELEASE DATE: 10/15/2025
The Mega Millions® jackpot is continuing its march upwards, with the largest prize since last December (and 11th largest in the game’s history) up for grabs this Friday, October 17 – an estimated $625 million ($288.8 million cash). The jackpot rolls again after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night – the white balls 12, 22, 49, 57 and 58, plus the gold Mega Ball 19.
“It’s been more than three months since the last jackpot was won and that’s always exciting because it means a big, big jackpot,” said Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium. “On Friday, someone has a chance to win $625 million, which is life-changing money.”
The excitement is generating more sales, which in turn is bringing in more winners across the country – and more winnings! The October 14 drawing produced 401,467 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total winnings of more than $12.1 million. Two tickets, one each in Arizona and Texas, matched the five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize. Both tickets had the 2X multiplier, making them worth $2 million each.
Fifteen tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize: eight at 2X for $20,000 (two in New York and one each in Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, New Jersey and Ohio), four at 3X for $30,000 (Arizona, Michigan, New York and Texas), two at 4X for $40,000 (Connecticut and Pennsylvania) and one at 5X for $50,000 (Massachusetts).
Find complete drawing results here.
Due to California’s pari-mutuel rules, all prizes in that state will vary from the standard values.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $348 million in Virginia on June 27. Earlier jackpots this year were awarded in Ohio ($112 million on April 18), Illinois ($349 million on March 25), and Arizona ($112 million on January 17).
In the 31 drawings in this jackpot run to date, there have been more than 8.6 million winning tickets at all levels, with prizes worth more than $208.6 million. They include 15 second-tier prizes: Seven with the 2X multiplier (Arizona, California, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia), six with the 3X multiplier (two in California and one each in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York), and one each at 4X and 5X (both in California). There have also been 198 third-tier winning tickets so far in this run, ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. These third-tier prizes were won in 37 different jurisdictions across the country: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
About Mega Millions
Mega Millions is the only lottery game that has produced seven jackpot wins exceeding $1 billion each – all in different states. South Carolina was the first in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine and Florida in 2023, and New Jersey and California in 2024. The Florida prize on August 8, 2023, is the game’s current record jackpot at $1.602 billion.
See the complete Mega Millions jackpot history.
Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier, multiplying the base prize levels by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X. Half of the proceeds from the sale of each Mega Millions ticket remains in the state where the ticket was sold, where the money supports designated good causes and retailer commissions.
Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
Mega Millions media contacts