While no ticket matched all six numbers, a Florida Mega Millions ticket did win a $1 million prize.
In the August 30th drawing, two winning tickets, one each in Florida and Wisconsin, matched the five white balls to win the game’s second-tier prize.
The Wisconsin ticket is worth $4 million because it included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 4X that night. The Florida second-tier ticket wins the standard $1 million second-tier prize.
In that August 30th drawing, the white balls were 10, 17, 20, 24 and 54, plus the gold Mega Ball 8.
The estimated jackpot for Friday, September 6th, is an estimated $740 million ($366.3 million cash). If won at that level, it would be the seventh largest jackpot in the history of the game.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $552 million in Illinois on June 4. In the 26 drawings in this jackpot run to date, there have been more than 19 million winning tickets across all non-jackpot prize tiers. These include 51 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more, won in 24 different jurisdictions from coast to coast: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Mega Millions is the only lottery game that has produced six jackpots exceeding $1 billion. All were won in different states – South Carolina was the first in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine in early 2023, Florida last August and New Jersey in March. 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 $2 each; in most jurisdictions, players can add the Megaplier for an additional $1 to multiply their non-jackpot prizes. 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 11pm ET on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 24; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
