RELEASE DATE: 6/28/2025
UPDATED
At the halfway point in 2025, Mega Millions® has its fourth jackpot win of the year! A single ticket sold in Virginia matched all six numbers drawn June 27 – the white balls 18, 21, 29, 42 and 50, plus the gold Mega Ball 2 – to take the prize of $348 million ($155.5 million cash). The jackpot had been rolling since it was last won in Ohio on April 18.
Virginia was one of the six lotteries that first created the Big Game in 1996, which became Mega Millions in 2002. Friday night’s win was Virginia’s tenth and largest Mega Millions jackpot win, including five shared with other states, and its first since 2016.
It’s the second jackpot won under the new $5 game format, which began with the April 8 drawing and quickly produced the Ohio win on April 18. In the 20-drawing jackpot run since then, there were almost 4.9 million winning tickets across all prize tiers for total non-jackpot prize winnings of nearly $120 million. That’s more than 4.4 times what those prize values would have been under the previous version of the game; significantly-increased lower-tier prizes are a primary benefit of the new $5 price point.
This jackpot run produced eight multi-million second-tier prizes. With the new multiplier in effect, four of those were won at $2 million (in Colorado, Georgia, Virginia and Washington), two at $3 million (in California and Washington), and two at $4 million (in New Jersey and Tennessee). There were also 107 third-tier winning tickets in this run, with prizes ranging from $20,000 to $100,000 and winners across all five multipliers (2X, 3X, 4X, 5X and 10X). These third-tier prizes were won in 31 different states across the country.
In the June 27 drawing alone, there were 299,888 winning tickets across all prize tiers, in addition to the jackpot-winning ticket. Five tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize. One had the 2X multiplier for $20,000 (California); three had the 3X for $30,000 (Indiana, Massachusetts and Vermont); and one had the 4X for $40,000 (New Jersey).
Find complete drawing results here.
Note: Prize amounts in California will vary, as they are calculated on a pari-mutuel basis.
Before the game change, two earlier jackpots were won this year: $112 million in Arizona on January 17 and $349 million in Illinois on March 25.
See the complete Mega Millions jackpot history.
The jackpot for the next drawing on Tuesday, July 1, resets to its new starting value of $50 million ($22.4 million cash). This starting jackpot level is another benefit of the game change.
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.
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.
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