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Nobody won the jackpot. Mega Millions jackpot leaps to $150,000,000 Tuesday
Updated: Saturday, August 2, 2025 12:58 AM
Nobody hit all the Mega Millions lottery five white ball numbers and the Mega Ball number for Friday, August 1st, 2025 (that includes you) and the $140,000,000 jackpot will continue to grow bigger. No worries. That just gives us all a chance to win an even larger Mega Millions lottery payout when the upcoming drawing happens on Tuesday, August 5th, 2025. By then the estimated grand prize is expected to go to $150,000,000. The lump-sum cash payout will be a projected $$67.9 million. The numbers drawn Friday night, August 1st, 2025 were 18, 27, 29, 33, 70 and the Mega Ball was 22, Megaplier was . No one won the Mega Millions grand prize in the past 37 draws since Friday, March 28th, 2025.The last jackpot was won by one lucky ticket sold in IL, matched all six numbers for a $344 million top prize.
Though there was no jackpot winner Friday evening, some people still walked away with huge prizes. There were a total of 3 third prize lucky winning tickets. These included 3 tickets that matched 4 white numbers together with Mega Ball and won $10,000.
Additional prizes won Friday night included 136 tickets that matched four white numbers and won $500. There were 351 tickets that correctly matched 3 white ball numbers as well as the Mega Ball and also won $200.
With nine ways to win, there were 404,832 winning tickets sold across the nation in the Friday, August 1st, 2025 drawing.
Mega Millions is a consortium associated with 44 state lotteries. It holds the record largest jackpot of $656 million in U.S. lottery history. Around 50% of the Mega Millions sales goes back on the players through prizes. Approximately 15% goes to commission of retailers and lottery operating costs. About 35% total sales is used in government services, education and charities in the participating states. Mega Millions drawings occur every Tuesday and Friday night at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Mega Millions game uses a 5/70+1/25 matrix to randomly pick winning numbers. Each play costs $1. In some states, players can choose to spend 1 extra dollar to purchase the Megaplier option, which multiplies the winnings 2 to 5 times except jackpot. The overall chances of winning any prizes is about 1 to 14. The odds of matching 6 Mega Millions numbers are 1 to 302,575,350. The minimum Mega Millions advertised jackpot is $40 million. Its annuity option is paid in 30 equal annual installments. Winners may select one lump-sum cash payout option instead.
Contrary to other Mega Millions states, all the 9 prize tiers of California Mega Millions are parimutuel, instead of non-jackpot prize having a set value. This causes different amounts of prize for equivalent winners sold in the state of California when compared to those sold in other forty three Mega Millions states. As an example, the 2nd Mega Millions prizes is $1,000,000 could pay the winner over $1000,000 due to the pari-mutuel payout system of California lottery. For the same reason, CA state lottery does not have Megaplier like other Mega Millions states.
To find if you are one of the California Mega Millions top prize winners in Friday, August 1st, 2025's drawing, check below lucky stores where these tickets were sold. - Detailed Draw Results For California
| Fri Aug 01, 2025 MEGA Millions Payout of U.S. | | Numbers Matched | Prizes | # Winners | | 5 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 0 | | 5 of 5 | $0 | 0 | | 4 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 3 | | 4 of 5 | $0 | 136 | | 3 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 351 | | 3 of 5 | $0 | 8,064 | | 2 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 7,135 | | 1 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 54,610 | | Megaball Only | $0 | 132,117 |
| Fri Aug 01, 2025 MEGA Millions Payout of California | | Numbers Matched | Prizes | # Winners | | 5 of 5 + Megaball | $43,000,000 | 0 | | 5 of 5 | $0 | 0 | | 4 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 0 | | 4 of 5 | $466 | 54 | | 3 of 5 + Megaball | $151 | 185 | | 3 of 5 | $10 | 3,077 | | 2 of 5 + Megaball | $9 | 3,026 | | 1 of 5 + Megaball | $7 | 22,750 | | Megaball Only | $5 | 53,775 |
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Next Draw: Tue Mar 3, 2026
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Change: +$15,000,000 |
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