Did you know?
On 17th May 2002, the first ever Mega Millions drawing had a jackpot winner – the winning ticket from Illinois bagged a respectable $28 Million – followed by a second jackpot winner just one week later! What a way to start!
There have been over 230 individual ticket winners split across 204 jackpot wins, with 21 of the jackpots being shared amongst 2 or more winners.
26 jackpots over $300 Million have been won by players of the Mega Millions.
$1.537 is the biggest mega millions jackpot ever won – this win also held the title of “Largest lottery jackpot won by a single ticket” for over 4 years – eventually a $2 Billion powerball win in November 2022 claimed this title.
Despite being considered an unlucky day by many, there have been 6 Mega Millions jackpots won on Friday 13th over the years – maybe it’s not so unlucky after all.
Jackpots have been won in...
Since Mega Millions expanded in 2010, jackpots have been won in 27 different jurisdictions.
2022 was a great year for Mega Millions players with 6 huge jackpots being won over the year:
– Jan 28 – $426 Million – California
– March 8 – $128 Million – New York
– April 12 – $110 Million – Minnesota
– April 15 – $20 Million – Tennessee
– July 29 – $1.337 Billion – Illinois
– October 14 – $502 Million – California
2021 wasn’t bad either:
– January 22 – $1.05 Billion – Michigan
– February 16 – $96 Million – New York
– September 21 – $431 – New York
– May 21 – $516 Million – Pennsylvania
– June 8 – $55 Million – Illinois
– October 22 – $108 Million – Arizona
You can see a list of other winners on our Jackpot history page.
Second prizes up to $5 million!
There is no other game in the world apart from Mega Millions where you can win a second prize of up to $5 Million.
Since the new game matrix was introduced in October 2013, there have been over 1,300 second prize winning tickets – winning a minimum $1 Million each!
Over 200 of those tickets won over the $1 Million base prize, as they had opted in to the “”Mega plier”” option which boosted their winnings from 2X all the way up to 5X!
30+ second-prize tickets have won $5 Million, 40+ $4Million, 55+ won $3 Million and $83 won $2 Million.
35 second-prize winning tickets where purchased in Texas, followed closely by 29 in florida.