With no winner during last Tuesday's $45 million drawing, the next Mega Millions jackpot will increase to $52 million ($29 million cash option).
For those feeling lucky, we will have the live results from Friday night's (tonight) Mega Millions numbers for 11/2/18 listed results below:
Here are the results from Friday night's Mega Millions drawing:
Numbers: 3, 23, 28, 46, 62
Mega Ball: 16
Megaplier: 2
Mega Millions is a multistate lottery and one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Jackpots start at $40 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier.
The odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million.
In a controversial and strange turn of events, Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing experienced technical difficulties as no Mega Ball dropped.
The Mega Ball was later revealed to be two. Here are the results from Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing:
Numbers: 20-49-39-31-46
Mega Ball: 23 (Initially delayed due to technical difficulties)
Megaplier: 2x
Two weeks ago, a ticket purchased in South Carolina matched the winning numbers of and 5-28-62-65-70, as well as the Mega Ball number of 5, claiming the record $1.537 billion jackpot, according to an official Mega Millions press release.
However, there were several other big winners on Tuesday night. According to the Mega Millions website, there 36 total second-prize winners, valued at $1 million.
"Eight were in California, four each in Florida and New York, two each in Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia, and one each in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin," according to the Mega Millions website.
The million-dollar tickets would have matched all five white balls but not the gold Mega Ball.
The previous record Mega Millions jackpot of $656 million on March 30, 2012, was shared by winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland, while a $648 million jackpot was won in California and Georgia on December 17, 2013.
The top Mega Millions jackpots to date:
Amount/Date/Winning Tickets
$1.537 billion on 10/23/18, 1-SC
$656 million on 3/30/2012, 3-IL, KS, MD
$648 million on 12/17/2013, 2-CA, GA
$543 million on 7/24/2018, 1-CA
$536 million on 7/8/2016, 1-IN
$533 million on 3/30/2018, 1-NJ
$451 million on 1/5/2018, 1-FL
$414 million on 3/18/2014, 2-FL, MD
$393 million on 8/11/2017, 1-IL
$390 million on 3/6/2007, 2-GA, NJ
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