The Mega Millions jackpot drops to $50 million as one ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers in last night’s drawing.
Here are the Friday, Nov. 14, Mega Millions winning numbers: 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57. The gold Mega Ball was 7. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $980 million with a cash option of $352.2 million for Friday night’s drawing.
The big prize had been growing since it was last won in Virginia on June 27 after four jackpot wins in the first six months of 2025. The jackpot is reset at an estimated $50 million or $23.2 million cash for the Tuesday, Nov. 18 drawing.
This was longest streak ‒ 40 drawings without a jackpot winner – since the game began in 2002. The previous record of 37 drawings was set January 22, 2021, when a $1.050 billion jackpot was won in Michigan.
Here are the Friday, Nov. 14 Mega Millions winning numbers: 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57. The gold Mega Ball was 7. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $980 million with a cash option of $23,2 million for Friday night’s drawing.
One ticket, sold in Georgia, won the jackpot in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing Nov. 14. One ticket purchased in Michigan matched five white balls with a 3X multiplier to win $3 million.
There were 48 tickets that matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third-tier prize:
This was longest streak without a jackpot winner since the game began in 2002. The previous record of 37 drawings was set January 22, 2021, when a $1.050 billion jackpot was won in Michigan.
The Multiplier is randomly assigned, and increases non-jackpot prizes two, three, four, five or 10 times.
The next drawing is Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 11 p.m. ET.
Tuesday’s jackpot is estimated to be $50 million with a cash option of $23.2 million.
Drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot won on a single ticket is a $1.602 billion prize won in Florida on Aug. 8. Other large single-ticket Mega Millions prizes have been $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018; $1.348 billion won in Maine on Jan. 13, 2023; $1.337 billion won in Illinois on July 29, 2022, and $1.050 billion won in Michigan on Jan. 22, 2021.
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play. There are nine ways to win a prize, from the jackpot to $2. Players can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers: five different numbers from the white balls numbered 1-70 and one number from the gold balls numbered 1-25.5 + 1 = Jackpot.5 + 0 = $1 million.4 + 1 = $10,000.4 + 0 = $500.3 + 1 = $200.3 + 0 = $10.2 + 1= $10.1 + 1 = $4.0 + 1 = $2.
You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing. You can pick your lucky numbers or select Easy Pick or Quick Pick and have the numbers auto-drawn. If you can’t decide, the Mega Millions website has a random number generator.
You can play Mega Millions in 47 localities: 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To find locations, search the Mega Millions website.
In Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, you can buy a Mega Millions ticket at gas stations, convenience stores and supermarkets until 10:45 p.m. on drawing night.
In Kentucky, residents can also purchase tickets online at kylottery.com.
In Ohio, residents can use the Lottery Card available in Kroger, Buehler’s Fresh Foods and Giant Eagle stores. It allows Ohio consumers to enter draw games on their phones and be notified and paid electronically if they win.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about 1 in 290 million.
The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.