RELEASE DATE: 11/12/2025
The Mega Millions® jackpot is on the verge of a billion dollars for the eighth time in the game’s history! After no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night – the white balls 10, 13, 40, 42 and 46, plus the gold Mega Ball 1 – the estimated jackpot for the next drawing on Friday, November 14, is an eye-opening $965 million ($445.3 million cash)!
It’s the eighth largest jackpot since the game began in 2002, below only the seven previous billion-dollar jackpots Mega Millions has awarded. The most recent to reach this lofty level was ultimately a $1.269 billion prize won in California on December 27, 2024. After four jackpot wins in the first half of this year, Friday’s drawing will be the 40th drawing in this run, a game record, since it was last won in Virginia on June 27.
In the November 11 drawing, there were 809,030 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total nationwide winnings of more than $27.9 million. Three tickets matched the five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize. One, sold in Arizona, had the 5X multiplier for a $5 million prize; the two others had the 3X multiplier for a $3 million prize and were sold in Iowa and New York.
Twenty-seven tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize: 12 at 2X (two each in Maryland and New Jersey, and one each in Illinois, Kansas, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin), 11 at 3X (three in California, two in Pennsylvania, and one each in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Texas), two at 4X (Illinois and Missouri), and two at 5X (both in California).
Find complete drawing results here.
Due to California’s pari-mutuel rules, all prizes in that state will vary from the standard values.
A hallmark of the game change last April was the significant enhancement of all lower-tier prizes. During this 39-drawing run to date there have been almost $316 million in prizes awarded across nearly 13.2 million winning tickets at all prize levels. They include 20 second-tier prizes of up to $5 million: Eight with the 2X multiplier (Arizona, California, Connecticut, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia), nine at 3X (two each in California and New York, and one each in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa and New Jersey), one at 4X (California) and two at 5X (Arizona and California).
There have also been 299 third-tier winning tickets so far in this run, ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. These third-tier prizes were won in 40 different jurisdictions across the country: Arizona, Arkansas, 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, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Before the June 27 Virginia jackpot win at $348 million, other jackpots awarded this year were in Ohio ($112 million on April 18), Illinois ($349 million on March 25), and Arizona ($112 million on January 17).
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.
The Top Mega Millions Jackpots:
| Amount |
Date |
Winning Tickets |
| $1.602 billion |
8/8/2023 |
1-FL |
| $1.537 billion |
10/23/2018 |
1-SC |
| $1.348 billion |
1/13/2023 |
1-ME |
| $1.337 billion |
7/29/2022 |
1-IL |
| $1.269 billion |
12/27/2024 |
1-CA |
| $1.128 billion |
3/26/2024 |
1-NJ |
| $1.050 billion |
1/22/2021 |
1-MI |
| $965 million (est) |
11/14/2025 |
? |
| $810 million |
9/10/2024 |
1-TX |
| $656 million |
3/30/2012 |
3-IL, KS, MD |
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