The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 17-20-24-41-42, Mega Ball: 24 (seventeen, twenty, twenty-four, forty-one, forty-two, Mega Ball: twenty-four Estimated ...

The changes will bring the two games' jackpot odds a little closer, with Powerball jackpot odds of 1 in 292.2 million just a bit worse than the new Mega Millions odds.

See a full prize chart here. With no jackpot winner in Tuesday's drawing, the next Mega Millions drawing on Friday is worth an estimated $72 million with a cash value option of $34.3 million.

Mega Millions players will get slightly better odds and should start seeing more billion-dollar jackpots, but at a cost — literally — with tickets for the multistate lottery more than doubling ...

If you aren’t deterred by your slim odds of winning, the next Mega Millions drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The current jackpot sits at an estimated $54 million with a cash option of ...

If you aren’t deterred by your slim odds of winning, the next Mega Millions drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The current jackpot sits at an estimated $54 million with a cash option of ...

Instead of having a roughly 1 in 302.58 million chance of hitting the Mega Millions jackpot, your odds are now about 1 in 290.47 million. Nine Big Lots stores to reopen this week, more expected in May ...

Updated: Apr 8, 2025 / 11:46 AM CDT (NEXSTAR) — Your odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot have always been slim, but thanks to new changes to the national lottery game, they just got better.

Mega Millions ticket prices rose by 150% last week — from $2 to $5 — as the company changed aspects of the game, in a move that some experts say is designed to keep more people playing.

Mega Millions is tweaking the game itself. The game is removing one gold "Mega Ball" from the draw, which slightly improves the odds to win any prize from a 1 in 24 chance to 1 in 23.

And the jackpot odds will be 1 in 290,472,336, compared to 1 in 302,575,350. How do you play the Mega Millions? To play the Mega Millions, you first have to buy a ticket.