Mega Millions’ third-largest payout has been the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in US history.
The jackpot prize for the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, July 26 has been boosted to an estimated annuitized $830 million due to an increase in ticket sales. Third-largest jackpot prize in game history and fourth-largest jackpot award in U.S. lotteries. For the drawing on Tuesday, an estimated $487.9 million in cash is up for grabs. The anticipated annuitized jackpot amount for the Friday, July 29 drawing will be $1.025 billion if there is no jackpot winner for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing.
Executive director Gary Grief of the Texas Lottery says that Mega Millions sales are “continuing to be strong for the Texas Lottery during this jackpot run,” generating much-needed funds for the state’s public schools. When Tuesday night’s drawing comes around, we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed that a Texas Lottery® player will come out on top.” Most importantly, we want to stress the importance of playing responsibly to all of our gamers. One ticket is all it takes to win.”
The 29th drawing in the current Mega Millions jackpot run, which began with an estimated annuitized $20 million jackpot for the April 19 drawing, will take place on Tuesday. On Jan. 22, 2021, an out-of-state player scooped a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot, the game’s second-largest jackpot payout, which was estimated at $1.05 billion at the time.
Since Mega Millions was launched in 2003, Texas has seen 13 jackpot winners. As of September 2019, the greatest jackpot ever awarded to a single Texas Lottery player was a Leander resident who won an estimated annuitized $227 million in September 2019.
Five Texas Lottery players have won second-tier Mega Millions jackpots of $1 million or more since the start of 2022, two of whom have won during the current Mega Millions jackpot run of $1 million or more. Second-tier prizes of $1,000,510 and $2 million were claimed by Houston and Ingram residents, respectively, in the May 13 and June 17 drawings.
Choosing five numbers from a field of 70 and a Mega Ball number from a second field of 25 numbers is how Mega Millions is played.’ It is necessary for players to match all six numbers selected, as well as the Mega Ball (the jackpot prize), in order to win. Those who have fewer numbers in common with the winning ticket may miss out on the big prize, but they can take home a prize anyway. The beginning jackpot for Mega Millions is $20 million, while the second-tier prize (Match 5+0) is $1 million. For an additional $1 each Play, players can increase their non-jackpot winnings by 2, 3, 4, or 5 times with the Megaplier® feature, netting them up to $5 million.
Each Tuesday and Friday at 10:12 p.m. CT, there is a drawing. There are almost 20,000 Texas Lottery stores in the state where players can buy Mega Millions tickets. The next Mega Millions drawing will take place at 9:45 p.m. CT on Tuesday, July 26, and tickets will be sold until then. Up to a $1 million retailer bonus is available to the store that sells the winning Mega Millions ticket.
Texas Lottery Facts and Figures
It has earned $35 billion in income for Texas and distributed $76 billion in rewards to lottery players since the lottery’s first ticket was sold on January 1, 1992. The Foundation School Fund in Texas has received about $29.2 billion from the Texas Lottery since 1997. Certain Texas Lottery revenues, as approved by the Texas Legislature, assist state programs, such as the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA). The Texas Lottery has provided more than $187 million to programs for Texas veterans since the first veterans-themed scratch ticket game was launched in 2009.
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