While things are cooling off outside in Virginia, the Mega Millions jackpot is heating up this month.
The estimated lottery jackpot for Friday, Sept. 6, is an estimated $740 million. If won at that level, it would be the seventh largest jackpot in the history of the game.
There has oddly never been a Mega Millions jackpot won between $656 million and $1 billion. In all six previous jackpot runs that reached this level, the top prize continued rolling until it exceeded the $1 billion mark. All were won in different states – South Carolina was the first in 2018, followed by Michigan in 2021, Illinois in 2022, Maine in early 2023, Florida last August and New Jersey in March.
The six numbers drawn Tuesday night were the white balls 12, 41, 43, 52 and 55, plus the gold Mega Ball 9.
In the Sept. 3 drawing, there were a total of 1,522,011 winning tickets. Two of them, sold in Kansas and Michigan, matched the five white balls to win the game’s $1 million prize.
Across the country, 32 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the third-tier prize. Eleven of those are worth $40,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier (available in most states with an extra $1 purchase), which was 4X Tuesday night; the other 21 take home the standard $10,000 each.
The jackpot was last won at $552 million in Illinois on June 4.
In the 26 drawings in this jackpot run to date, there have been more than 19 million winning tickets across all non-jackpot prize tiers. These include 51 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more, won in 24 different states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Tickets are $2 each; in most jurisdictions, players can add the Megaplier for an additional $1 to multiply their non-jackpot prizes.
Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Crystal Graham
