Mega Millions Jackpot Leaps to $843 Million, Eighth Largest in Game History
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OLYMPIA, Washington (November 5, 2025) – The excitement is growing along with the jackpot size – the Mega Millions® jackpot is now the eighth largest in the history of the game! An estimated $843 million ($391.7 million cash) is up for grabs in the next drawing on Friday, November 7, after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night – the white balls 11, 14, 17, 50 and 57, plus the gold Mega Ball 6.
Friday’s drawing will be the 38th drawing since the jackpot was last won in Virginia on June 27. It’s the longest streak without a jackpot winner since the game began in 2002; the previous record of 37 drawings was set January 22, 2021, when a $1.050 billion jackpot was won in Michigan. Jackpot wins are always unpredictable random events; jackpots can be won in consecutive drawings or roll for weeks or months on end.
While the jackpot remains elusive, the number of winners – and total prizes won – continues to grow. Through this jackpot run to date, there have been almost 11.7 million winning tickets at all levels, with total prizes exceeding $274 million thanks to significant enhancements in the lower-tier prizes after the game changed last April. They include 17 second-tier prizes: Eight with the 2X multiplier (Arizona, California, Connecticut, 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 256 third-tier winning tickets so far in this run, ranging from $20,000 to $100,000. These third-tier prizes were won in 40 different jurisdictions across the country: Arizona, Arkansas, 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, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
In the November 4 drawing alone, there were 606,046 winning tickets across all prize tiers, for total nationwide winnings of more than $12.2 million. Twelve 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 Texas and one each in Colorado, New Jersey and Wyoming), two at 3X for $30,000 (Michigan and Virginia), and five at 4X for $40,000 (Arkansas, California, Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania). Find complete drawing results here.
Due to California’s pari-mutuel rules, all prizes in that state will vary from the standard values.
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.
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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