The Mega Millions jackpot for 12/30/22 is $685 million and the draw takes place tonight at 11pm ET. It is the fourth largest jackpot in the history of the game. The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $120 million in the past three days.
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Friday night’s 12/30/22 Mega Millions jackpot is worth $685 million, with a cash value option worth $347.8 million. The total jackpot may increase depending on the number of tickets sold in the country prior to the draw.
Last Tuesday’s (12/27/22) winning numbers for the $565 million jackpot were: 9/13/36-59-61 with a Mega Ball of 11. The Megaplier was 2x.
There was no grand prize winner on Tuesday, but five tickets were sold, two in California and one each from Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, matching the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the second prize of the $1 million game. Had they bought the Megaplier for an extra $1, their second prizes would have been worth $2 million.
44 tickets were sold nationwide on Tuesday, matching four of the five White Balls plus the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. Three of them bought the Megaplier for an extra $1, making their third prize winnings worth $20,000 each.
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These are the Mega Millions jackpots won in 2022:
- 10/14/2022 – $502 million
- 7/29/2022 — $1.337 billion
- 4/15/2022 – $20 million
- 04/12/2022 — $106 million (Minnesota)
- 03/08/2022 — $126 million (New York)
- 2022-01-28 – $421 million
Here are the six Mega Millions jackpots won in 2021:
- 10/22/2021 – $108 Million (Arizona)
- 9/21/2021 — $432 million (New York)
- 06/08/2021 – $56 Million (Illinois)
- 5/21/2021 — $516 million (Pennsylvania)
- 2/16/2021 — $96 million (New York)
- 2021-01-22 — $1.05 Billion (Michigan)
The previous winning ticket for that was sold on 9/15/2020 in Wisconsin for a $119 million jackpot. That was only the fifth and final Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year.
Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020:
- $119 million – Sept. 15 in Wisconsin
- $22 million – July 31 in California
- $124 million – July 24 in New Jersey
- $410 million – June 9 in Arizona
- $202 million – February 11 in New Jersey
Other winners – dating back to 2019 – included a $372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $227 million ticket sold on 9/24/19 in the Texas town of Cedar Park, a suburb north of Austin .
Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night and it is one of America’s two largest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $20 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $2 per line and the odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. Visit the website for more information about Mega Millions or to check your past numbers.
Powerball is the other multi-state lottery and also starts at $20 million. The draws take place shortly after 11pm ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here’s the Powerball website for more information or to view previous winning numbers.
Friday night we will post the payouts from the Mega Millions 30/12/22 and tell you if there was a winner and where that winner came from if so.
Here are the top 10 Mega Millions Jackpots so far:
Amount/date/winning tickets
- $1.537 Billion 10/23/2018 1-SC
- $1.337 Billion 7/29/2022 1-CA, 1-FL
- $1.05 Billion 2021-01-22 1-MI
- $685 Million – CURRENT JACKPOT
- $656 million 3/30/2012 1-IL, 1-KS, 1-MD
- $648 million 2013-12-17 1-CA, 1-GA
- $543 million 7/24/2018 1-CA
- $536 million 8/7/2016 1-IN
- $533 million 3/30/2018 1-NJ
- $522 million 6/07/2019 1-CA
