A single ticket sold in Texas has hit the jackpot, matching all six numbers in the estimated $800 million Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, September 10, according to MegaMillions.com.
This monumental win means the Mega Millions jackpot will now reset to $20 million for the next drawing on Friday, June 13.
The winning numbers from Tuesday’s draw were 1, 2, 16, 24, 66, with a gold Mega Ball number of 6 and a Megaplier of 4x.
Just a week prior, the jackpot stood at $560 million until a player in Illinois clinched the prize on June 4. It previously reset after a New Jersey resident scored a staggering $1.13 billion on March 26. This colossal amount ranked as the fifth largest in Mega Millions history and the eighth largest in the history of U.S. lotteries.
The pattern of resetting jackpots continued when two lucky Californians won the $395 million prize on December 8. January 2023 saw a flurry of jackpot resets, triggered by a string of wins: a Maine player nabbed an estimated $1.35 billion on January 14, a New Yorker claimed $20 million merely three days later on January 17, and Massachusetts residents won $31 million twice, once on January 24 and again on January 31.
The January 14 drawing not only set the record for the second-highest Mega Millions prize but also marked the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. The daunting odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot stand at 1 in 302.5 million, underscoring the sheer improbability of such a win.
In the history of Mega Millions, jackpots have surpassed the billion-dollar mark six times. The lottery world was astounded when a California player won $2.04 billion ($997.6 million cash value) in the Powerball on November 7, 2023, making it the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history as per the official Powerball website.
Both Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots rise with each game without a winning ticket, each demanding a match of six numbers, which includes the secondary Mega Millions gold ball or the Powerball.
