Mega Millions Capping Off Wild Lottery Year With Largest New Year’s Jackpot Ever

Mega Millions and Powerball had a twelvemonth unlike any other in 2022. For the foremost clip in their long histories, both games delivered 10-figure jackpots inward the same year. And Mega Millions isn’t through with 2022.

With simply two drawings remaining this year, Mega Millions is ready to pee-pee history yet once again in 2022. With no tickets matching the half dozen winning numbers during the drawing off finally Friday, Dec. 23, the Mega Millions jackpot for tomorrow night is an estimated $565 million.

Mega Millions officials say at $565 million, the drafting is already poised to become the richest drawing jackpot prize of all time offered during the final week of any year. If no fine matches the winning numbers tomorrow night, the jackpot testament roster over for the Friday, Dec. 30, Mega Millions drawing.

As we relocation yesteryear Christmas, the largest Mega Millions jackpot ever so offered inwards the endure calendar week of any calendar year is go under for Tuesday, Dec. 27,” a Mega Million financial statement read. “If the jackpot is won on Tuesday, it would be the 6th largest prize inward the chronicle of the game.”

The largest Mega Millions award ever so won occurred during the Oct. 23, 2018, drawing, when a bingle player inwards South Carolina won a $1.537 1000000000 prize. The lottery game’s second-largest jackpot was come to simply this year, when a single just the ticket sold in IL won the July 29 drawing off to claim a $1.337 billion prize.

Historic Year

No twelvemonth has ever been as sound for drawing players as 2022 — at least inwards terms of life-changing jackpots.

It was only when lowest month that a single fine sold in Calif. won a $2.04 1000000000 Powerball jackpot. It was the first off clip ever inwards the US that a drawing jackpot was upwards of $2 billion.

The register win easy bested the previous all-time richest jackpot won in US history, a $1.586 1000000000 Powerball jackpot that was split up tierce shipway in Jan 2016.

2022 was a banner yr for Powerball and Mega Millions. The games regularly saw their jackpots grow to headline-generating highs, as v of the teetotum 25 largest lottery jackpots were smash during the past tense 12 months.

If Mega Millions is run into before the New Year, 2022 will business relationship for half a dozen of the top out 25 largest jackpots ever won. type A $565 one thousand thousand jackpot would outrank no. 16 all-time inward the US.

Powerball Tops $200M

Though Powerball’s record-setting achievements are through with(p) for 2022, the other popular interstate lottery gamey has leash more drawings before the yr is done.

Powerball’s estimated jackpot for its drawing off this evening is $201 million. The gritty is drawn tercet times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.

To cleft the top out 25 largest drawing jackpots list, the Powerball appreciate testament demand to inflate rapidly to at least $473.1 zillion for the game’s draftsmanship on New Year’s Eve.

The betting odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is unity inwards 302.5 million. Powerball is slightly amend at 1 inward about 292 million.