Mega Millions Experiences Unremarkable Drawing, Jackpot Reaches $227M
The Mega Millions game has had another drawing without a big winner, allowing the game’s top prize to shoot up to $227 million. While no one won a Match 5 prize either, players will get another chance to win big this Tuesday. There Were a Few Winners of Bigger Sums The Friday Mega Millions drawing…
The Mega Millions game has had another drawing without a big winner, allowing the game’s top prize to shoot up to $227 million. While no one won a Match 5 prize either, players will get another chance to win big this Tuesday. There Were a Few Winners of Bigger Sums The Friday Mega Millions drawing offered players a jackpot of $209 million with a cash option of $89.7 million. While either variant would have been a life-changing payout, the drawing did not result in jackpot winners, as no player managed to match the six-figure winning combination. For reference, the winning numbers drawn on Friday, September 11, were 3, 30, 33, 53, and 62, plus the gold Mega Ball 22. Matching the five white numbers would have resulted in a payout of between $2 and $10 million, but unfortunately, no such prize materialized. At the same time, a few players succeeded in matching four white numbers plus the gold Mega Ball, with one of those winning $20,000 on a 2x multiplier, and the remaining two taking $30,000 home each, thanks to their 3x multiplier. The Jackpot’s Cash Option Is About to Hit $100M Since no one won the jackpot, it has continued to grow, reaching some $227 million for the Tuesday, September 15, drawing. A hypothetical winner would be presented with a choice between the annuitized option for the full sum or the one-time lump sum payment of $96.3 million. This means that if no one wins this Tuesday, the lump sum option will pass the $100 million mark. The previous Mega Millions jackpot (September 8) was also a quieter one, although it saw one player of a tier-three prize take home $100,000 thanks to their 10x multiplier. On August 28, on the other hand, the Mega Millions player awarded not one, but two prizes of $3 million to players in Missouri and Tennessee. That drawing also had one lucky winner of a $100,000 sum. Mega Millions has awarded three jackpots in 2026 (so far), with the most recent win happening in Florida, where a lucky player won $800 million. In other lottery-related news, a player in Massachusetts just bought a scratch-off ticket worth a staggering $25 million. The win came from a $25,000,000 MEGA MONEY game, with the player beating odds of 1 in 6,300,000 to score it. In Texas, the winner of a $26.75 million jackpot just came forward to redeem their prize.