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Enormous Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs Tuesday night
Updated: Saturday, August 23, 2025 01:48 AM
Wall Street is not the only place where fortunes are made and lost these days. One fortune is going to be up for grabs on Tuesday, when Mega Millions lottery has $253,000,000 on the line. The cash value stands at an estimated $$113.8 million. Mega Millions' jackpot went up since no player hit all five lotto numbers plus the Mega Ball number drawn Friday night. The numbers drawn Friday night, August 22nd, 2025 were 18, 30, 44, 48, 50 and the Mega Ball was 12, Megaplier was . The Mega Millions grand prize has been rolling over for 43 draws since Friday, March 28th, 2025.One lucky winner from IL walked away with $344 million jackpot in Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 drawing.
Although the grand prize was not awarded Friday evening, some players still walked away with large winnings. There was a single lucky player that correctly matched the first five lotto numbers and won the 2nd prize. The one second prize winning ticket(s) sold in NC will collect a million dollar cash each.
Additional major winners Friday evening included 3 tickets that matched four white ball numbers plus the Mega Ball and won $10,000. In addition, 138 tickets matched four of the five lotto numbers. Those tickets are each worth $500. Other prizes won included 384 tickets that matched 3 white numbers plus the Mega Ball and won $200.
With nine ways to win, there were 535,125 winning tickets sold nationwide in the Friday, August 22nd, 2025 drawing.
Mega Millions is an U.S. popular lottery game can be played in 44 lottery jurisdictions as a pari-mutuel jackpot game. Mega Millions drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday night at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Mega Millions 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 to purchase the Megaplier, which multiplies the prizes 2 to 5 times but not jackpot. The overall chances of winning is about 1 to 14. The chances of winning Mega Millions grand prize are about 1 in 302 million. The minimum Mega Millions grand prize starts at $40,000,000. The annuity option is paid in 30 equal yearly payments. Winners can select one lump-sum cash payout instead.
Not like other Mega Millions participants, all the nine prize tiers of California Mega Millions are parimutuel, instead of non-jackpot prize having a fixed amount. This leads to different amounts of prize for equivalent winning tickets sold in California when compared to those sold in other 43 lotteries. One example is, 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, California state lottery does not offer Megaplier like other Mega Millions states.
There were 111,794 Mega Millions winning tickets sold in the state of California. Find below the California Mega Millions prize payout highlights for the Friday night's drawing.
- 2 ticket(s) matched 4 of 5 + Megaball and won $13,989 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 4 of 5 + Megaball in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $2 to $54,869, with an average of $15,279 payout.
- 42 ticket(s) matched 4 of 5 and won $766 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 4 of 5 in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $172 to $1,021, with an average of $499 payout.
- 130 ticket(s) matched 3 of 5 + Megaball and won $275 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 3 of 5 + Megaball in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $126 to $338, with an average of $207 payout.
To find out if you are among the California top prize winners of Mega Millions Friday, August 22nd, 2025's drawing, check below lucky stores where these tickets were sold. - Detailed Draw Results For California
| Fri Aug 22, 2025 MEGA Millions Payout of U.S. | | Numbers Matched | Prizes | # Winners | | 5 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 0 | | 5 of 5 | $0 | 1 | | 4 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 3 | | 4 of 5 | $0 | 138 | | 3 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 384 | | 3 of 5 | $0 | 9,539 | | 2 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 9,010 | | 1 of 5 + Megaball | $0 | 72,429 | | Megaball Only | $0 | 181,739 |
| Fri Aug 22, 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 | $13,989 | 2 | | 4 of 5 | $766 | 42 | | 3 of 5 + Megaball | $275 | 130 | | 3 of 5 | $10 | 3,911 | | 2 of 5 + Megaball | $10 | 3,750 | | 1 of 5 + Megaball | $6 | 29,734 | | Megaball Only | $5 | 74,225 |
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