{"id":783718,"date":"2026-07-25T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:49:10","slug":"mega-millions-jackpot-soars-to-800m-results-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783718\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions jackpot soars to $800M: Results, drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mega Millions jackpot shot up to $800 million as no player won the grand prize for Friday\u2019s drawing, continuing the four-month winless drought that propelled the prize to the tenth-highest in the game\u2019s history. <\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s winning numbers were 2, 5, 42, 44 and 60, and the gold Mega Ball 1 for the $743 million prize, officials announced.<\/p>\n

No players had all five white balls, but 13 tickets matched four of the white balls and the gold Mega Ball to win prizes ranging from $20,000 to $40,000, depending on the chosen multiplier.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Mega Millions jackpot shot up to $800 million as no player won the grand prize for Friday\u2019s drawing, continuing the four-month winless drought. Jammer Gene \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

California led the pack with five third-tier winners, followed by two players each in Florida and Ohio, along with lucky winners in Georgia, South Carolina, Idaho and Missouri.<\/p>\n

Mega Millions has gone 37 consecutive drawings without a winner. The last jackpot winner was The Happy Trails Trust, who won $60 million in Van Wert, Ohio on March 17. <\/p>\n

The chances of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.<\/p>\n

The jackpot, worth an estimated $800 million, is the largest prize that the game has had since November 14, 2025, when a Georgia ticketholder won the $983 million payday<\/a>, currently the eighth-largest total in history.<\/p>\n

The winner, who remained anonymous, chose the one-time cash sum of $453.6 million before taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mega Millions players have only struck gold twice in 2026 with the Happy Trails Trust win and a week earlier when an anonymous online player in Illinois won the $536 million grand prize<\/a> on March 10.<\/p>\n

\"MegaMega Millions and Powerball lottery tickets for sale in a vending machine in Bloomfield, NJ. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

The game is on pace to have the fewest jackpot winners in a given year, as only two grand prizes have been won up to July 24, the same amount of top prizes won in 2024 to this point.<\/p>\n

That year saw four total jackpot winners, according to game officials.<\/p>\n

Lottery players looking to cash in on one of the largest prizes in history have their next shot at glory on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Mega Millions isn\u2019t the only lottery with a historic prize on the line, as the Powerball jackpot sits at an estimated $600 million for Saturday night\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n

Powerball hasn\u2019t seen a jackpot winner since May 2, when two tickets in Florida and Texas matched the winning numbers for the $20 million prize.<\/p>\n

The split winners came in the drawing after two other players, in Indiana and Kansas, split the $143.4 million prize for the April 29 drawing.<\/p>\n

It was the first time Powerball had back-to-back jackpot winners since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mega Millions jackpot shot up to $800 million as no player won the grand prize for Friday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,24662,130437,52263,194],"class_list":["post-783718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions","tag-powerball","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783718","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=783718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}