RELEASE DATE: 10/22/2025
The ninth largest jackpot in Mega Millions® history is on tap for the next drawing on Friday, October 24! The big prize jumps to an estimated at $680 million ($318.2 million cash) after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night – the white balls 2, 18, 27, 34 and 59, plus the gold Mega Ball 18. The jackpot was last won at $348 million in Virginia on June 27.
In the October 21 drawing, there were 436,959 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total winnings of almost $12 million across the country. One ticket, sold in Illinois, matched the five white balls to win the second-tier prize; with the 3X multiplier, it is worth $3 million. Eleven tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize: five at 2X for $20,000 (two in Florida and one each in California, Colorado and Massachusetts), five at 3X for $30,000 (Arizona, California, Iowa, Louisiana and Ohio), and one at 10X for $100,000 (New Jesey).
Find complete drawing results here.
Due to California’s pari-mutuel rules, all prizes in that state will vary from the standard values.
In the 33 drawings in this jackpot run to date, there have been more than 9.5 million winning tickets at all levels, with prizes worth almost $229.2 million. They include 16 second-tier prizes: Seven with the 2X multiplier (Arizona, California, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia), seven with the 3X multiplier (two in California and one each in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey and New York), and one each at 4X and 5X (both in California). There have also been 218 third-tier winning tickets so far in this run, ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. These third-tier prizes were won in 38 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, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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 |
| $810 million |
9/10/2024 |
1-TX |
| $680 million (est) |
10/24/2025 |
? |
| $656 million |
3/30/2012 |
3-IL, KS, MD |
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