Mega Millions
5 numbers from 1 to 70, plus 1 Mega Ball from a separate 1–24 draw. Drawn Tuesday and Friday at 23:00 New York time.
How Mega Millions works
A line is 5 numbers from 1 to 70, plus 1 Mega Ball from a separate 1–24 draw. To win the jackpot you need every one of them, which happens about 1 in 290,472,336 for a single entry. That figure comes from the matrix itself — the number of ways 5 balls can be chosen from 70 — and not from anywhere else.
Nothing about a previous draw changes the next one. The balls have no memory, the machine is checked before every draw, and a number that has not appeared for a year is exactly as likely as one that came up on Saturday.
Where our results come from
Our archive for Mega Millions begins on Tuesday 31 October 2017, the first draw under the current number matrix. Earlier draws used a different matrix, and mixing the two would make every statistic on this page wrong.
Source: New York State Gaming Commission open data (New York State Gaming Commission).