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Find below a list containing the latest 30 California(CA) MEGA Millions drawing results. The results are shown by draw date and in descending order with the latest MEGA Millions winning numbers shown first. In case you want to learn more about past results, you can look up Search Past California(CA) MEGA Millions results, and California(CA) MEGA Millions winning numbers calendar.

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#	Draw Date	Winning Numbers	Mega Ball	Megaplier
	Tue Mar 25, 2025	01 05 17 39 62	08
	Fri Mar 21, 2025	15 22 31 52 57	02
	Tue Mar 18, 2025	27 28 31 32 33	24
	Fri Mar 14, 2025	03 17 39 42 70	01
	Tue Mar 11, 2025	01 19 26 38 69	15
	Fri Mar 07, 2025	08 20 48 58 60	07
	Tue Mar 04, 2025	14 19 47 52 70	06
	Fri Feb 28, 2025	09 19 30 35 66	16
	Tue Feb 25, 2025	04 08 11 32 52	13
	Fri Feb 21, 2025	01 13 28 37 46	10
	Tue Feb 18, 2025	01 20 25 58 61	22
	Fri Feb 14, 2025	11 19 31 49 56	16
	Tue Feb 11, 2025	07 30 39 41 70	13
	Fri Feb 07, 2025	04 24 32 41 55	16
	Tue Feb 04, 2025	14 24 31 53 54	01
	Fri Jan 31, 2025	09 28 48 56 63	02
	Tue Jan 28, 2025	10 19 31 47 56	06
	Fri Jan 24, 2025	08 12 43 52 62	18
	Tue Jan 21, 2025	27 30 56 64 65	22
	Fri Jan 17, 2025	08 10 37 54 69	22
	Tue Jan 14, 2025	04 14 35 49 62	06
	Fri Jan 10, 2025	09 23 39 65 66	22
	Tue Jan 07, 2025	20 24 33 39 48	18
	Fri Jan 03, 2025	20 42 46 59 69	19
	Tue Dec 31, 2024	13 22 27 29 35	01
	Fri Dec 27, 2024	03 07 37 49 55	06
	Tue Dec 24, 2024	11 14 38 45 46	03
	Fri Dec 20, 2024	02 20 51 56 67	19
	Tue Dec 17, 2024	56 66 67 68 69	18
	Fri Dec 13, 2024	36 43 52 58 65	16

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Somebody is celebrating in IL, and for good reason. A single ticket has won the jackpot from the most recent Mega Millions lotto drawing. Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing worth $344,000,000 was sold in IL. The identity of the newest millionaire has not been determined, nor has the location of the ticket purchase. The numbers from Tuesday night, March 25th, 2025 were 01-05-17-39-62 with Mega Ball 08 and Megaplier X2. The winner can take a cash option worth $161.5 million before taxes, or decide to receive 30-year annuity option with yearly payment in the amount of $13.23 million before taxes. The jackpot winner is highly suggested to sign the ticket, place it in a secure place and get in touch with lottery officials as soon as possible. Jackpot winner has the opportunity to choose the cash value of the jackpot while claiming the prize. If the winner doesn't make choice, the payment option will revert to annuity by default.

In addition to the jackpot won on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, a lot more players took home with huge pile of cash. There was a sole second prize winner from Tuesday night's drawing, matching the first five white ball numbers except the Mega Ball number. The 1 second prize winning ticket(s) sold in FL will collect a million dollar cash each.

Additional major winners Tuesday night included 11 tickets that matched four white ball numbers as well as the Mega Ball and won $10,000. Additional prizes won Tuesday night included 277 tickets that matched 4 white numbers and won $500. Other prizes won included 770 tickets that matched 3 white numbers in addition to the Mega Ball and won $200.

With 9 different ways to win, there were a total of 1,239,780 winning tickets sold nationwide in the Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 drawing.

The next Mega Millions lottery top prize is estimated at $20,000,000 for Friday, March 28th, 2025. The cash option will be $$9.2 million.

Mega Millions lottery is played in 43 states and Washington DC. It holds the record largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. About 50% of the Mega Millions sales goes back for the players in prizes. Around 15% is used to as retailer commissions and lottery operating costs. Approximately 35% total sales is used to support government services, education and charities in the participating states. Mega Millions lottery uses a 5/70+1/25 system from which winning numbers are chosen. Each play costs $1. In some states, players can choose to pay 1 extra dollar to buy the Megaplier option, which multiplies the prizes 2 to 5 times except grand prize. The overall odds of winning is about 1 to 14. The odds of winning Mega Millions grand prize are 1 to 302,575,350. The minimum Mega Millions advertised grand prize starts at 40 million dollar. Its annuity option is paid in 30 equal annual payments. Winners may select one time lump-sum cash payout option instead.

Compared with other Mega Millions states, all the nine prize levels of California Mega Millions are parimutuel, instead of non-jackpot prize having a fixed amount. This results in different prize amounts for equivalent winning tickets sold in the state of California when compared to those sold in other forty three states. By way of example, the second Mega Millions prizes is a million dollar could pay the winner more than a million dollar due to the pari-mutuel payout system of California lottery. For the same reason, California state lottery doesn't have Megaplier like other Mega Millions participants.

There were 96,796 Mega Millions winning tickets sold in the state of California. Find below the California Mega Millions payout highlights for the Tuesday night's drawing.

• 2 ticket(s) matched 4 of 5 + Megaball and won $11,794 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 4 of 5 + Megaball in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $1,470 to $54,869, with an average of $15,499 payout.
• 67 ticket(s) matched 4 of 5 and won $396 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 4 of 5 in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $165 to $774, with an average of $470 payout.
• 178 ticket(s) matched 3 of 5 + Megaball and won $169 each. In the past 1 year, tickets matched 3 of 5 + Megaball in CA Mega Millions drawing, won from $75 to $275, with an average of $204 payout.

To find if you are one of the California Mega Millions top prize winners in Tuesday, March 25th, 2025's drawing, check below lucky stores where these tickets were sold.

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Can you imagine a lottery where 94% of the ticket cost is diverted back to public? That is what California Mega Millions does for all of you.

California Lottery was started in 1985 after lottery was legalised in California in the year 1984. Later California Lottery started participating in the already existing and popular lottery called Mega Millions, thereby giving birth to California Mega Million.

An unbelievable $ 12,000,000 is the jackpot prize. Just imagine what all you can do with this kind of money.

The popular lottery - Mega Millions also called MM is a lottery that is available or played across multiple states in America. The name of the Mega Millions lottery earlier was .The Big Game..

In California Mega Millions, you need to select any 6 numbers from two different groups of numbers. The 1st group of numbers is from 1 to 56 and the 2nd group of numbers is from 1 to 46. If six numbers match, you win the jackpot. In California, prizes are pari-mutuel which means the payouts depends on the quantity of tickets sold and within that, the quantity of tickets have won the games.

You can claim your California Mega Millions prize from 2 modes of payment. One is annual payment where you will be provided in 26 annual payments and the other is cash payment where full amount is paid.

The California Mega Millions draws are conducted 2 days a week on Tuesday and Friday. The draw is at 7.45 pm.

California Mega Millions can be played in 4 easy steps - Find, Pick, Buy, Play.

1. Visit your nearest California Mega Millions retailer. There are 20,000 California Mega Millions retail shops.
2. Once you convey your wish to play the California Mega Millions game, the retailer would give you a play slip.
3. You need to then pick 5 numbers you consider lucky from 2 groups of numbers. The 1st 4 numbers you need to choose is from 1 to 56 and the 5th numbers you need to choose is from 1 to 46.
4. You need to choose & mark these numbers on the California Mega Millions pay slip.
5. In case you are unable to choose the numbers on your own, use the Quick Pick facility where a computer would choose the numbers for you randomly.
6. Each California Mega Millions play slip contains 5 plays. You need to buy more pay slips to play more games.
7. There is also a feature in called Advance Play which permits you to bet on the same numbers on successive draws.
8. In case you are availing Quick Pick, you are permitted up to 10 plays on the same play slip.
9. While marking on the pay slip, see that you use only black ink or blue ink pens. Other colours are not valid. In case you made mistake, instead of erasing, use the VOID box to make your mark.
10. Once you have ensured that you have marked your California Mega Millions pay slip correctly, hand it over to the retailer along with $1.You would then be given a ticket. This ticket you receive also acts as a receipt.
    
11. Check the correctness of the ticket you have received for the date, the numbers you have placed bet on, draw details and the amount paid for the ticket.
12. Once you are convinced that the information available on the California Mega Millions ticket is correct, place your signature on the back side of the ticket.
13. It is to be noted that a California Mega Millions ticket that is once sold will not, under any circumstance, be cancelled.
14. The tickets are bar coded. You can check you winning status either by scanning your ticket at the retailer or by visiting the California Mega Millions website.

The California Mega Millions draw is usually conducted in the city of Atlanta in Georgia. It is conducted by WSB-TV.

For very large draws, the Mega Millions draw is sometimes conducted in New York City's Times Square.

The first 5 numbers are chosen using white colored balls and the 6th number is called the Mega Ball number. The 2 sets of numbers are drawn using different machines.

Unlike other states, Megaplier, a $2 game, is not offered as a part of California Mega Millions.

The chance of winning a California Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 175,711,536.

The chance of winning any prize is 1 in 40.

There are chances that there is more than one winner in a California Mega Millions draw. In such a case the prize is shared among the winners. However the number of winners, if belonging to the same group, should not be more than 100.

Suppose the winner dies before collecting the prize money, his / her heir can collect the California Mega Millions prize money. There is of course a formal procedure for the same.

The winners should claim or collect their prize within 180 days. If not collected, the prize will be awarded to the state of California and in turn fund schools and colleges.

The prizes of California Mega Millions above $599 are taxable. However there is no state/ or local tax pertaining to California.

It is mind blowing to know that the largest or biggest jackpot ever won in Mega Millions is of prize money $ 656,000,000 which is in 26 annual payments or an equivalent cash amount of $474,000,000. This was in the year 2012.

The 2nd highest jackpot (payable in 26 annual instalments) that was won was $390 million and the 3rd largest is $380 million.

You have to claim the jackpot prize within a year unlike other Mega Millions prizes which give a period of 180 days period. Thereafter you have 60 days to choose either the cash or the 26 annual payments.

In case of prizes other than jackpot, the same needs to be claimed within 180 days.

You need to be at least 18 years old if you need to play California Mega Millions.

Younger people . do not lose heart. You can win or collect the prizes on tickets that have been gifted to you.

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01 05 17 39 62 MB: 08 Tue Mar 25, 2025 Last 10 | Calendar | Search Intelli-Combos | Power Picks | Frequency Chart | Overdue Chart Win Checker | Lotto Wheels | Prize Analysis News & Payout | Skip and Hit Analysis	Next Draw: Fri Mar 28, 2025 $20,000,000  Change: $-324,000,000