With three months of drawings without a big winner, the Mega Millions jackpot reaches one of its largest totals in U.S. lottery history.
After Friday night’s drawing yielded no jackpot nabs, the prize increased to $1.58 billion, or $783.3 million for the cash option.
Find out the next drawing and how to play:
When is the next Mega Millions drawing?
If you plan to stick it out for the long haul in hopes of cashing in big soon, the next drawing will be Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 11 p.m. ET.
In Delaware, you can purchase tickets until 9:45 p.m. that day for a chance to win.
You can purchase tickets until 10:45 p.m. in New Jersey and 9:59 p.m. in Pennsylvania.
Drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m.
How can I watch the Mega Millions drawing?
To watch the drawing live, visit www.megamillions.com/winning-numbers-aspx or visit the Mega Millions YouTube channel.
What are the 8/4/23 winning Mega Millions numbers?
Here are the Mega Millions winning numbers for Friday, Aug. 4, 2023:
11 – 30 – 45 – 52- 56 and Mega Ball 20
Megaplier was 2x
Who were the winners in the Mega Millions drawing on Friday, Aug. 4?
Although there were no jackpot winners, there were 5,331,114 winning tickets at all prize levels. Nine tickets matched the five white balls to win the $1 million second-tier prize. There were sold in Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.
Since the last jackpot was claimed on April 18, there have been 62 prizes of $1 million or more, won from 27 different states, Mega Millions stated in a news release. Delaware is not among those 27.
In Delaware, 22,459 tickets won a prize Friday. The biggest winners were two non-jackpot prizes of $10,000, for matching four numbers, plus the Megaball, according to the Delaware Lottery website.
How to play the Mega Millions
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play.
There are nine total 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 either pick your lucky numbers yourself or select Easy Pick or Quick Pick and have the numbers auto-drawn. If you can’t make up your mind, the Mega Millions website has a random number generator.
What is the Megaplier?
Most states offer the Megaplier feature, which increases non-jackpot prizes from two, three, four and five times.
It costs an additional $1 per play.
Before each regular Mega Millions drawing, the Megaplier is drawn. From a pool of 15 balls, five are marked with “2X,” three with “4X” and one with “5X.”
What are the odds of winning the Mega Millions lottery?
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million, and the odds of winning the $1 million prize are 1 in 12.6 million.
The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.
What are the top Mega Millions jackpots?
| Amount | Date | Winning Tickets |
| $1.580 billion (est) | 8/8/2023 | ? |
| $1.537 billion | 10/23/2018 | 1-SC |
| $1.348 billion | 1/13/2023 | 1-ME |
| $1.337 billion | 7/29/2022 | 1-IL |
| $1.050 billion | 1/22/2021 | 1-MI |
| $656 million | 3/30/2012 | 3-IL, KS, MD |
| $648 million | 12/17/2013 | 2-CA, GA |
| $543 million | 7/24/2018 | 1-CA |
| $536 million | 7/8/2016 | 1-IN |
| $533 million | 3/30/2018 | 1-NJ |
Don’t throw away your Mega Millions tickets
For those of you bummed about not coming across any lottery luck as of late, you can enter your Delaware Lottery tickets as part of the Collect ‘N Win promotion to collect symbols and earn entries.
Collect six symbols and complete a Play Card for an entry in monthly prize drawings. Each card is one entry, and there are 80 cash prizes from $50 up to $1,000 awarded monthly.
Got a tip or a story idea? Contact Krys’tal Griffin at kgriffin@delawareonline.com.
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