RELEASE DATE: 4/19/25
We are a little more than 3½ months into 2025 and Mega Millions® already has its third jackpot win of the year! Significantly, it’s the first jackpot won under the new $5 game format, which began with the April 8 drawing. A single ticket sold in Ohio matched all six numbers drawn April 18 – the white balls 5, 13, 15, 17 and 28, plus the gold Mega Ball 1 – to take the prize of $112 million ($49.3 million cash). The jackpot had been rolling since it was last won in Illinois on March 25.
“Moments like this are exactly why we reimagined the game,” said Joshua Johnston, Lead Director of the Mega Millions Consortium. “This jackpot win – and the millions of dollars going to non-jackpot winners every drawing – is the result of years of planning, collaboration, and listening to what players want. We’re proud of what this game is already delivering for our players and beneficiaries and are looking forward to the future big wins to come.”
The numbers are indeed impressive, due to the enhanced non-jackpot prizes and the addition of an automatic multiplier. For the four drawings at the $5 price point, total prizes across all eight non-jackpot prize tiers were $27.5 million. That’s more than four times what they would have been under the old game matrix (calculated at almost $6.8 million based on the number of winners at each prize level and the base prize payouts in effect at the time).
In total during this short seven-drawing jackpot run, there were more than two million winning tickets across all prize tiers, including five multi-million second-tier prizes. Two of those were sold under the previous matrix with the Megaplier option selected (one in Texas at $5 million and one in Pennsylvania at $2 million), while three were sold under the new matrix with the included multiplier ($4 million and $2 million in New York, and $3 million in Michigan).
In the April 18 drawing, there were 229,771 winning tickets across all prize tiers, in addition to the jackpot-winning ticket. Nationwide, 13 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize. Six had the 2X multiplier for a $20,000 prize; five had the 3X for $30,000; and there was one each at 4X and 5X, for prizes of $40,000 and $50,000, respectively.
Find complete drawing results here.
Note: Prize amounts in California will vary, as they are calculated on a pari-mutuel basis.
See the complete Mega Millions jackpot history.
The jackpot for the next drawing on Tuesday, April 22, resets to its new starting value of $50 million ($22.4 million cash). This starting jackpot level is another benefit of the game change.
Mega Millions is the only lottery game that has produced seven jackpot wins exceeding $1 billion each – all in different states. South Carolina was the first in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine and Florida in 2023, New Jersey last March California in December. The Florida prize on August 8, 2023, is the game’s current record jackpot at $1.602 billion.
Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier, multiplying the base prize levels by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X. Half of the proceeds from the sale of each Mega Millions ticket remains in the state where the ticket was sold, where the money supports designated good causes and retailer commissions.
Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
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