Today is the last day to try your luck for the $530 Mega Millions Jackpot ($343.9 million Lump Sum) with the drawing taking place at 11PM CDT tonight. This is the largest the Mega Millions Jackpot has been since the $1.5 Billion Jackpot back in October of 2018, surpassing the $500 Million mark when nobody won the last drawing on Tuesday, the numbers for which were 25, 37, 46, 48, 68, and Mega Ball 25.
The last jackpot winner took home $50 million in Missouri back in March of 2019, while over a million other players won smaller prizes ranging from just $2 to a whopping $20,000 thanks to the Mega Millions Megaplier. That’s pretty good, considering that the odds of winning the Mega Millions Jackpot are 1 in nearly 303 million.
Mega Millions hasn’t always been the same way, as it changed its matrix in 2013 in order to make it more likely to win a million-dollar prize than it is to win the jackpot. That means that if you are playing for tonight’s drawing, you might want to plan for a smaller payout.
Players have until the time of the drawing tonight – that’s 11pm CDT – to purchase their tickets at any lottery retailer to qualify for tonight’s jackpot.