Did Anyone Win Mega Millions?

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2 min readAug 1, 2022

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Did you score the winning ticket for the second largest lottery jackpot in Mega Millions history?

The figures have dropped for the Friday, July 29 lottery jackpot worth an estimated$1.337 billion, with a cash option of$780.5 million.

Mega Millions winning figures

The winning figures for Friday night’s delineation were 13, 36, 45, 57, and 67 and the Mega Ball was 14. The Megaplier was 2X.

Did anyone win Mega Millions last night?

One ticket bought in Illinois matched all six figures to win the Mega Millions jackpot.

Twenty tickets matched all five figures except for the Mega Ball worth$ 1 million. Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Texas each had two winners, while the remaining winning tickets were bought in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

When was the last big Mega Millions jackpot in 2022?

After months of no winners, one lucky ticket bought in South Carolina matched all figures to win$ 426 million in the Jan. 28 delineation.

How to play Mega Millions

Then is how to play Mega Millions, according to its website

“Players may pick six figures from two separate pools of figures — five different figures from 1 to 70( the white balls) and one number from 1 to 25( the gold Mega Ball) — or elect Easy Pick/ Quick Pick. You win the jackpot by matching all six winning figures in a delineation.

What can you win if you play Mega Millions?

The mega millions of figures are drawn with five white balls, each with the possibility of a number between 1 and 70. The final gold” Mega Ball” is drawn from a set of balls numbered between 1 and 25.

The 10 largest US lottery jackpots ever won

1. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)

2. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)

3. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)

4. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)

5. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)

6. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)

7. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)

8. $687.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets, from Iowa and New York)

9. $656 million, Mega Millions, March 30, 2012 (three tickets, from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland)

10. $648 million, Mega Millions, Dec. 17, 2013 (two tickets, from California and Georgia)

Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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