Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to Estimated $530M, Eighth-Largest in Game History

Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to Estimated $530M, Eighth-Largest in Game History

The Mega Millions jackpot for tomorrow night s draw is an estimated $530 million, the lottery game s eighth-largest prize in its more than quarter-century history.

A gas station Mega Millions advertisement shows this week s estimated $530 million jackpot up for grabs during the July 19, 2022, draw. The lottery jackpot hasn t been won since April 15. (Image: NBC4)

No ticket has matched all five white balls and the gold Mega Ball since April 15, when a player in Tennessee won . Last Friday s winning numbers were 8-20-26-53-64 and the Mega Ball 15.

During Friday s draw, mega Millions told Casino.org that 1,423,423 tickets won some sort of prize, from $2 to $1 million.

The top prize came by way of California, where a single ticket matched all five white balls to win the game s top non-jackpot prize of $1 million. But unfortunately for that player, the California Lottery does not participate in the Mega Millions $1 add-on Megaplier option. The Megaplier is randomly drawn during the game s Tuesday and Friday draws.

The Megaplier can double, triple, quadruple, or even quintuple a prize. Last Friday s Megaplier draw hit the 5x multiplier, which would have ballooned the California individual s prize to $5 million.

Megaplier Odds

2x: 1 in 3

3x: 1 in 2.5

4x: 1 in 5

5x: 1 in 15

With no ticket matching all six numbers, the Mega Millions jackpot rolls over for the Tuesday, July 19, draw.

History Coming

Mega Millions tomorrow night could forever change someone s life. The estimated $530 million jackpot is the game s biggest prize since January 2021, when a winning ticket worth more than $1 billion was sold in Michigan.

$1.537B 10/23/2018 1-SC$1.05B 1/22/2021 1-MI$656M 3/30/2012 3-IL, KS, MD$648M 12/17/2013 2-CA, GA$543M 7/24/2018 1-CA$536M 7/8/2016 1-IN$533M 3/30/2018 1-NJ$530M (est.) 7/19/2022 ?$522M 6/7/2019 1-CA$516M 5/21/2021 1-PA

The January 2021 10-figure win was claimed by a lottery club in Oakland County, Mi. Calling themselves the Wolverine FLL Club, the four-person group purchased the winning $1.05 billion ticket at a Kroger grocery store in Novi.

The group said they plan to stay humble and pay it forward through charitable giving in southeast Michigan. It was a generous jackpot, as the Kroger that sold the ticket donated its $50,000 bonus commission for selling the ticket to the Food Bank Council of Michigan.

Lucky July

Though the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are a measly one in 302.6 million even worse than Powerball s jackpot odds of one in 292.2 million , July has historically been a good month for historic Mega Millions jackpot wins.

Two of the largest Mega Millions jackpots in the game s history were won in July. A $536 million Mega Millions win was hit on July 8, 2016, and a $543 million prize was won on July 24, 2018.

Since the April 15 jackpot, Mega Millions says more than 15.5 million prize-winning tickets have been , including 25 worth $1 million or more.

The Mega Millions jackpot has been hit only four times in 2022. The others came on January 28 with a $426 million prize, March 8 with a $128 million win, and April 12 with a $110 million reward.