1 Ticket Hits $1.13 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot


There was one winning ticket sold for Tuesday night's estimated $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey, the game's officials said.

The ticket purchased in New Jersey was the fifth-largest pot of gold ever won by Mega Millions players and the first time this year a ticket matched all the numbers needed to get the grand prize. I Image: New Jersey Lottery

It was the fifth-largest pot of gold ever won by Mega Millions players and the first time this year a ticket matched all the numbers needed to get the grand prize, Jordan Freiman reported for CBS News.


Mega Millions had gone more than three months without a jackpot winner, with 31 drawings since two tickets in California did the trick on Dec. 8. Tuesday's winning numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38, and Mega Ball 4.

The estimated jackpot was the eighth largest in US lottery history.

The biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever, $1.602 billion, was won on Aug. 8 of last year when a single winning ticket was sold in Florida. The largest prize in US lottery history, a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, was won in California in February 2023.

The odds of winning a Mega Millions prize are 1 in 24, but the odds of hitting the jackpot are just 1 in 302,575,350.


Jackpot winners have the option of taking a lump sum cash payment or having the winnings doled out over the course of 30 years in annual installments. Only winners who take the annuity option receive the full jackpot total.

The estimated lump sum payment for Tuesday night's drawing was $537.5 million before taxes. Mega Millions drawings are done Tuesday and Friday nights, while Powerball conducts its drawings on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday nights.

Powerball had an estimated jackpot of $865 million as of Tuesday night.


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