Mega Millions jackpot passes the Billion dollar mark to reach $1.025 billion

Here’s the draw for tonight’s Mega Millions game, Tuesday July 26. The prize value of $830 million was not claimed and now goes to $1.025 billion. This is the third time the jackpot has gone over $1 billion in the game’s 20-year history. The new jackpot has a cash value of $602.5 million.

No ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night, which consisted of the white balls 7, 29, 60, 63 and 66, plus the gold Mega Ball 15.

Now the estimated jackpot will be drawn on Friday, July 29, which will be the thirtieth in this jackpot run. This began April 19 after the jackpot was won in Tennessee on April 15.

Friday’s prize, as currently estimated, is a little under than the $1.050 billion jackpot won in Michigan on January 22, 2021. The Mega Millions record jackpot is $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina on October 23, 2018. That prize remains the world’s largest lottery prize ever won on a single ticket.

“We look with anticipation on the growing jackpot,” says Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, current Lead Director of the Mega Millions Consortium. “Seeing the jackpot build over a period of months and reaching the billion-dollar mark is truly breathtaking. We encourage customers to keep play in balance and enjoy the ride. Someone is going to win.”

With unprecedented traffic after the drawing – more than any in the history of megamillions.com – the Mega Millions website was down for more than two hours Tuesday night.

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As the jackpot grows, so does the number of winning tickets at all other prize levels. For the July 26 drawing alone, there were a total of 6,775,330, winning tickets at all prize levels.

Nine tickets matched the five white balls to win the Mega Millions second prize. One, sold in Ohio, is worth $3 million because it included the optional Megaplier (a $1 extra purchase available in most states), which was 3X Tuesday night.

Of the other eight Match 5 tickets worth $1 million, two each were sold in New Jersey and New York, plus one each in California, Florida, Illinois and Ohio.

For matching four white balls plus the Mega Ball, 156 tickets win the game’s third prize. Thirty-six of those are worth $30,000 each because they also included the optional Megaplier. The other 120 third-prize tickets win $10,000 each.