The Mega Millions jackpot for 05/03/22 was $57 million, and here are the winning numbers from Tuesday night’s drawing.
- First Five: 15-19-27-35-57
- Mega Ball: 17
- Megaplier: 2x
Tuesday night’s 05/03/22 Mega Millions jackpot was worth $57 million, with a cash-value option worth $41.3 million. There was no grand prize winner, so the Friday 05/06/22 jackpot increases to $70 million.
The winning numbers last Friday (04/29/22) for the $43 million jackpot were: 09-11-34-49-66 with a Mega Ball of 15. The Megaplier was 2x.
There was no grand prize winner on Friday, nor were there any tickets sold that matched the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the game’s second prize of $1 million.
There were six tickets sold nationwide on Friday that matched four of the five white balls plus the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. Two of those purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1, which made their third-prize winnings worth $20,000 apiece.
Here are the six Mega Millions jackpots won in 2021:
10/22/2021 — $108 million (Arizona)09/21/2021 — $432 million (New York)06/08/2021 — $56 million (Illinois)05/21/2021 — $516 million (Pennsylvania)02/16/2021 — $96 million (New York)01/22/2021 — $1.05 billion (Michigan)
The previous winning ticket before that was sold in Wisconsin on 09/15/20 for a jackpot worth $119 million. That was only the fifth, and final, Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year.
Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020:
$119 million — September 15 in Wisconsin$22 million — July 31 in California$124 million — July 24 in New Jersey$410 million — June 9 in Arizona$202 million — February 11 in New Jersey
Other winners—dating back to 2019—were a $372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $227 million ticket that was sold on 09/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas—a suburb north of Austin.
Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and it is one of America’s two biggest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $20 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $2 per line, and odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. For more information on Mega Millions, or to check your past numbers, visit its website.
Powerball is the other multi-state lottery, and it also starts at $20 million. Its drawings take place shortly after 11 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here is the Powerball website for more information, or to check past winning numbers.
Here are the top 10 Mega Millions Jackpots to date:
Amount/Date/Winning Tickets
- $1.537 billion 10/23/2018 1-SC
- $1.05 billion 01/22/2021 1-MI
- $656 million 3/30/2012 1-IL, 1-KS, 1-MD
- $648 million 12/17/2013 1-CA, 1-GA
- $543 million 7/24/2018 1-CA
- $536 million 7/8/2016 1-IN
- $533 million 3/30/2018 1-NJ
- $522 million 6/07/2019 1-CA
- $516 million 05/21/21 1-PA
- $451 million 1/5/2018 1-FL
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