Nobody won the 5th-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history Tuesday night. And that means it’s going to go up — a lot — before Friday’s drawing.
It also means the 0-for-Oregon streak continues. No jackpot-winning ticket has ever been sold in the Beaver State.
The winning numbers for Tuesday’s $555 million drawing were 2-31-32-37-70 with the Mega Ball number 25. The Megaplier was 3X.
Nobody got all six numbers, so the jackpot will rise to an estimated $630 million for Friday. That would still make it the fifth-highest in history, but chances are it will tick up a little more and reach the 4th-highest total before the next drawing.
If it stays $630 million, the lump sum payout would be $359.7 million. Or, the winner could take the annuity and receive annual payments for 30 years.
Mega Millions said nobody has won the big prize since April 15. The other jackpots won this year were $426 million in California on January 28; $128 million in New York on March 8 and $110 million in Minnesota on April 12.
Oregon is one of 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that participates in Mega Millions. Oregon also participates in Powerball.
No ticket sold in Oregon has ever won the Mega Millions jackpot.
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The odds of winning the big prize is 1-in-302.2 million. For perspective, the odds of being struck by lighting once in your lifetime would be 1-in-15,000.
But, you’d have better luck winning Mega Millions or Powerball than filling out a perfect bracket in the NCAA Tournament. That’s 1-in-9.2 quadrillion.
Mega Millions all-time largest jackpots
- $1.537 billion: Oct. 23, 2018
- $1.050 billion: Jan. 22, 2021
- $655 million: March 30, 2012 (three tickets sold)
- $648 million: Dec. 17, 2013 (two tickets sold
- $630 million: July 22, 2022 (TBD)
- $543 million: July 24, 2018
- $536 million: July 8, 2016
- $533 million: March 30, 2018
- $522 million: June 7, 2019
- $516 million: May 21, 2021
Powerball all-time largest jackpots
- $1.586 billion: Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets sold)
- $768.4 million: March 27, 2019
- $758.7 million: Aug. 23, 2017
- $731.1 million: Jan. 20, 2021
- $699.8 million: Oct. 4, 2021
- $687.8 million: Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets)
- $632.6 million: Jan. 5, 2022 (two tickets)
- $590.5 million: May 18, 2013
- $587.5 million: Nov. 28, 2012 (two tickets)
- $564.1 million: Feb. 11, 2015 (three tickets sold)
