You can’t think of the world’s biggest lotteries without including US Mega Millions! This massive American lottery is known across the globe for paying out some of the biggest prizes ever - including a record $1.537 billion jackpot! Buy US Mega Millions tickets from Australia for the bi-weekly draws every Tuesday and Friday for your chance at winning the multi-million dollar jackpot or one of eight exciting secondary prizes!
Discover if you’ve won a Mega Millions prize online from Australia by comparing the five main numbers and the Mega Ball number on your ticket to the numbers selected in the draw. The main numbers are drawn from a drum of balls with a guess range of 1-70, while the Mega Number is drawn from a separate drum with numbers that range from 1-25. If you match all six numbers (five main numbers + one Mega Ball number), you can take home your share of the amazing Mega Millions jackpot! This prize starts at a staggering $20 million and has no cap – meaning it can keep growing until someone wins it! In the past, this prize has set world records and awarded two jackpots surpassing $1 billion!
You also have a chance at taking home one of the draw’s 8 non-jackpot prizes by making a partial match of the main numbers with or without the Mega Ball number. If you’ve matched a non-jackpot prize and have added the Megaplier feature to your ticket, be sure to see which number was selected to know how big your boosted prize will be!
Learn more by visiting the official US Mega Millions website.
Mega Millions launched as a multi-state lottery in August 1996 as “The Big Game” and was initially offered in just six states. In February 2003, the lottery was rebranded and came back as “Mega Millions” with a new and improved format including the addition of the Megaplier feature. In January 2010, Mega Millions made a historic cross-selling agreement with Powerball, enabling participating states to sell tickets to both lotteries.
Throughout the years, the Mega Millions matrix has changed three times, with the last format change occurring in October 2018 when it was set to the current 5/70 + 1/25. As of January 2020, there are 47 lotteries offering Mega Millions ( 45 states + the District of Columbia (in blue), plus the U.S. Virgin Islands). The last state to be added to the roster was Mississippi, which joined in January 2020.
On 7 April 2020, the Mega Millions starting jackpot amount was reset from $40 million to $20 million with at least a $2 million jackpot increase for each draw without a jackpot winner.
As one of the biggest lotteries on the planet, it’s no surprise that the Mega Millions jackpot have repeatedly broken records across the globe! Mega Millions awarded its largest jackpot ever, $1.537 billion, in October 2018 to a single ticket purchased in South Carolina. While it didn’t beat out Powerball’s $1.586 billion jackpot awarded two years prior, it is currently the biggest jackpot ever won by a single ticket.
Mega Millions once again surpassed the billion-dollar mark in January 2021 after it awarded a $1.05 billion jackpot to a 4-member syndicate from Michigan! This is now Mega Millions' second-largest jackpot and the world's third-biggest lottery prize to date!
Before Powerball’s world record was set in 2016, Mega Millions $656 million jackpot won in March 2012 reigned as the world’s biggest lottery prize for a total of four years.