Mega Millions drawing on August 4, 23, with a $1.55 billion jackpot
Mega Millions drawing on August 4, 23, with a $1.55 billion jackpot
Watch ABC7NY for the Mega Millions drawing every Tuesday and Friday at 10:59 p.m.
Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing is on the verge of breaking the game’s jackpot record!
No ticket had all six of the Friday night lottery numbers.
The winning numbers for Friday’s drawing were 45, 30, 52, 56, 11, and a Mega Ball of 20.
But hold off on throwing away your tickets. In Commack, a $1 million ticket was purchased.
$1.55 billion is the anticipated jackpot roll ($757.2 million in cash).
Since the game’s last jackpot winner in April, there have been 31 straight drawings.
The odds of matching the numbers on five white balls and one additional mega ball are one in 302.6 million, which is why winning the jackpot is so difficult. The chances of winning smaller awards, which start at $2, are better.
There were 5,331,114 winning tickets across all prize tiers in the drawing on August 4. To win the game’s second-tier prize, nine tickets have to match all five white balls. Due to the fact that two of them came with the optional Megaplier, which was 2X for this drawing and was sold in Tennessee and Michigan, they are each worth $2 million.
In Tennessee, a second Match 5-winning ticket was sold for the usual second-tier reward of $1 million. Six additional tickets each from Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas each win $1 million.
Every Tuesday and Friday at 10:59, you can watch the Mega Millions draws on abc7NY.com/lottery.
Here are the ten biggest prizes ever won in the United States, along with the states where the winning tickets were purchased:
- $2.04 billion Powerball win on November 8, 2022 (one California-based ticket)
- On January 13, 2016, three tickets from California, Florida, and Tennessee won $1.586 billion in the Powerball drawing.
- Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018, $1.537 billion (one ticket from South Carolina)
- Mega Millions jackpot of $1.35 billion, Jan. 13, 2023 (one Maine-based ticket).
- Mega Millions jackpot of $1.337 billion, drawn on July 29, 2022 (one Illinois ticket).
- One ticket from Michigan won $1.05 billion on January 22, 2021 in the Mega Millions.
- One Wisconsin-sourced ticket won $768.4 million on March 27, 2019, in the Powerball.
- $758.7 million Powerball win on August 23, 2017 (one Massachusetts-based ticket)
- Powerball win of $774.6 million on February 6, 2023 (one ticket from Washington state);
- One ticket from Maryland won $731.1 million on January 20, 2021 in the Powerball.
- Visit nylottery.ny.gov for additional details on the New York lottery and to view the results.
- By calling the State’s free, confidential HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369) or by texting HOPENY (467369) New Yorkers who are battling with a gambling addiction or who know someone who is can get support. Text message rates may apply.
