Is today your lucky day? The Mega Millions numbers have dropped for the Tuesday, December 24, 2024 lottery jackpot worth an estimated $1.00 Billion, with a cash option of $448.8 million.
The winning numbers for Tuesday night’s drawing are 11, 14, 38, 45, 46, and the Mega Ball is 3. The Megaplier is 3X.
No one matched all six numbers to win the U.S. – Mega Millions jackpot, but 3 tickets (Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wyoming) matched all five numbers except for the Mega ball worth $1 million, 1 ticket (California) won $1,774,447.
81 tickets matched four white balls plus the Mega ball for the $10,000 third prizes, and 13 tickets won $30,000 prizes (Megaplier 3X), 12 tickets (California) won $13,770.
The total prize money of the smaller awards amounts to over $27.19 million.
These are the prize payouts for all states that play Mega Millions combined, along with the prize values for each prize tier, with and without the “Megaplier” on Tue, Dec 24, 2024:
| Match | Winners | Prize | Megaplier Winners | Megaplier Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O O O O O | O | 0 | 1,000,000,000 USD | X | X |
| O O O O O | 4 | 1,000,000 USD | 0 | 3,000,000 USD |
| O O O O | O | 93 | 10,000 USD | 13 | 30,000 USD |
| O O O O | 2,169 | 500 USD | 452 | 1,500 USD |
| O O O | O | 5,543 | 200 USD | 1,205 | 600 USD |
| O O O | 135,248 | 10 USD | 30,004 | 30 USD |
| O O | O | 120,789 | 10 USD | 26,991 | 30 USD |
| O | O | 941,777 | 4 USD | 211,268 | 12 USD |
| | O | 2,299,321 | 2 USD | 517,461 | 6 USD |
The jackpot currently ranks as the 5th largest Mega Millions jackpot and the 9th largest U.S. lottery jackpot.If a winner is chosen in the lottery’s next drawing Friday night, they have the option to either receive the $1.15 Billion in 30 annual installments over 29 years, before taxes, or take an up-front pretax lump sum payment of $516.1 million in cash.
A mandatory federal 24% tax withholding would reduce the lump sum earnings to $874 million, while a federal marginal rate of up to 37%—depending on the winner’s taxable income this year—could reduce it to as low as $724.5 million.
Additionally, lottery winnings are subject to taxes in some states including Arizona, with an additional 2.5% taken and New York, with an additional 10.9% taken, plus some cities like New York City impose an additional tax on lottery winnings.
The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was hit was 10/09/2024. Since then, there have been 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, the lottery said.
Mega Millions is a famous lottery that was released in the US. It allows foreigners to buy lottery tickets and win prizes. The Mega Millions lottery prize attracts many players around the world to buy tickets to try their luck through the best online lottery sites like TheLotter.
Here’s how Mega Millions used to work: Players pick five numbers from 1 to 70 and a Mega number of 1 to 25. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Mega Millions drawings happen every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be Friday, December 27, 2024 at 11 p.m. ET. Have you purchased your ticket yet?
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