SEATTLE \u2014 The jackpots for the Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games have climbed to a combined estimated $1.06 billion after neither game produced a jackpot winner in their latest drawings.<\/p>\n
The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $604 million ahead of its Friday night drawing, while the Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $457 million for Saturday night’s drawing.<\/p>\n
Washington’s Lottery said tickets for both games are available at lottery retailers across the state.<\/p>\n
Recent big lottery winners in Washington: <\/p>\n
Mega Millions ticket worth $30,000 was sold July 3 at Greenlake Gas Stations, 7200 Aurora Ave. N in Seattle. Powerball ticket worth $50,000 was sold at the 7-Eleven at 3625 148th St. SW in Lynnwood.<\/p>\n
Lottery officials said several other Washington players have won large prizes in 2026, including one $100,000 Mega Millions prize, three $100,000 Powerball prizes, one $150,000 Powerball prize and one $250,000 Powerball prize.<\/p>\n
Mega Millions drawings are held at 8 p.m. Pacific every Tuesday and Friday. <\/p>\n
Ticket sales close at 7:45 p.m. before each drawing and resume at 8:01 p.m. for the next drawing. <\/p>\n
Washington’s Lottery noted that changes introduced to the game in 2025 increased the starting jackpot to $50 million, improved overall odds of winning, and added automatic multipliers ranging from 2x to 10x for all non-jackpot prizes.<\/p>\n
Powerball drawings are held at 7:59 p.m. Pacific every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Ticket sales close at 6:45 p.m. on drawing days and resume at 6:46 p.m. <\/p>\n
Since 1982, Washington’s Lottery has generated more than $5.7 billion for state programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The jackpots for the Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games have climbed to a combined estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-755837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}