$893M Mega Millions Jackpot Drawing Is Tuesday: What To Know In CA

CALIFORNIA — Lottery players in the Golden State have another shot Tuesday at one of the largest Mega Millions jackpots — $893 million — in the history of the game.

The jackpot climbed again for Tuesday’s drawing after no one matched the five white balls — 13, 25, 50, 51 and 66 — and the mega ball, which was 6, in Friday night’s drawing. Mega Millions numbers are drawn twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.

Californians are on something of a lucky streak. California Lottery players have won, or co-won, the top four largest jackpots in Powerball history — all worth more than $1 billion. The winning ticket for the largest jackpot ever — a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot — was sold in Los County and claimed in 2023. On Friday, the winner of last year's $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot — the second largest jackpot in United States history — was identified as Theodorus Struyck of California.

For every Powerball or Mega Millions ticket sold in California, approximately 80 cents goes
toward public schools, according to the lottery.

Jackpots may be paid out over a 30-year annuity, but most people take a lump sum payment, which would be $413.5 million for Tuesday’s drawing. It’s important to remember that winnings are subject to federal taxes and, often, state taxes as well.

Tickets cost $2. For another $1, players can buy the Megaplier option, which increases their non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four or five times. The Megaplier in Friday’s drawing was 5X. Mega Millions is played in 45 states; Washington, D.C.; and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Although there were no jackpot winners Friday, a ticket sold in New York matched the five white balls to win a second-tier $1 million prize. Another 39 tickets matched four white balls and the Mega ball to win third-tier prizes, which were worth $50,000 each for the nine players who played the Megaplier option. The other third-tier winners took home $10,000 each.

The top prize has been growing since Dec. 8, when the same Los Angeles gas station sold two jackpot-winning tickets. The two winners split the $394 million prize.

• Related: Gas Station Sells 2 Mega Millions Jackpot-Winning Tickets

In the 28 consecutive drawings since the last jackpot win, almost 21.5 million non-jackpot winning tickets have been sold, including 33 second-tier prizes worth $1 or more won in 19 states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

Tuesday’s jackpot is the sixth-largest in the 22-year history of the Mega Millions game and the 10th-largest U.S. lottery prize. Five of those six jackpots exceeded $1 billion.

Lottery players face long odds — 1 in 302.6 million — in winning the jackpot, but the odds of winning other prizes

Since the game was rolled out in 2002, California has had jackpot winners:

• Dec. 8, 2023 - $394 million in Encino
  
• Oct. 14, 2022 - $251 million in San Jose
• Jan. 28, 2022 - $292.9 million in Woodland Hills
• July 31, 2020 - $17.9 million Mira Loma
• June 7, 2019 - $522 million in San Diego
• July 24, 2018 - $543 million in Santa Clara County
• April 28, 2017 - $61 million in Laguna Hills
• Jan. 27, 2017 - $191 million in Nipton
• Aug. 22, 2014 - $180 million in Calimesa
• March 25, 2014 - $30 million in Los Angeles
• Dec. 17, 2013 - $324 million in Northern California
• Dec. 14, 2012 - $35 million in Bellflower
• Oct. 16, 2012 - $30.5 million in Fresno
• Sept. 11, 2012 - $120 million in Riverside
• July 27, 2012 - $52 million in Fremont
• May 29, 2012 - $32 million in Pomona
• May 15, 2012 - $25 million in Beverly Hills
• Dec. 27, 2011 - $ 208 million in San Jose
• Nov. 1, 2011 - $78 million in Paso Robles
• Sept. 30, 2011 - $56.5 million in Los Angeles
• May 3, 2011 - $51 million in Bakersfield
• Aug. 27, 2010 - $135 million in Morro Bay
• July 16, 2010 - $64 in Agoura Hills and El Monte
• May 4, 2010 - $266 million in Pico Rivera
• March 5, 2010 - $134 million in Long Beach
• Nov. 10, 2009 - $38.5 million in South San Francisco
• Aug. 28, 2009 - $168 million in San Gabriel
• May 15, 2009 n- $19 million in Santa Ana
• May 1, 2009 - $75.6 million in Mill Valley
• Jan. 2, 2009 - $47 million in San Diego
• May 11, 2007 - $113 million in Hawthorne
• Sept. 21, 2007 - $61 million in Studio City
• June 16, 2006 - $35 million in La Quinta
• Nov. 15, 2005 - $315 million in Anaheim
• Nov. 29, 2005 - $17.5 million in Wilmington
• Dec. 30, 2005 - $88 million in Montebello

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