Mega Millions Drawing Tonight, Jackpot Jumps To $830 Million

Mega Millions Drawing Tonight, Jackpot Jumps To $830 Million

Fourth highest big lottery medal in U. S. Legacy; third largest in Mega Millions heritage 

AUSTIN – Sales for the Tuesday, July 26 Mega Millions drawing pursue to thrust, resulting in the progressive jackpot being expanded to an approximated annuitized $830 million. 

The cash prize is the third largest progressive jackpot in play legacy and the fourth largest in U. S. Lottery heritage.

 Tuesday's drawing deals a financial value worth an estimated $487.9 million. If there's really no lottery ticket winning team for tonight's Mega Millions drawing, the cash prize for the Friday, July 29 drawing will push to an guesstimated annuitized $1.025 billion. 

"Mega Millions sales continue to be strong for the Texas Lottery during the current jackpot run, which will generate much needed revenue for public education in the state of Texas," stated “ Gary Grief, managing board of the Texas Lottery. "As great excitement builds for Tuesday night's drawing, we're keeping our fingers crossed that the winner of this jackpot is a Texas Lottery ® player. Most importantly, we also want to remind our players to play responsibly. It only takes one ticket to win."

Tuesday's attracting will be the 29th in the actual Mega Millions lottery ticket pass since commencing as an guesstimated annuitized $20 million for the April 19 drawing. This is the greatest Mega Millions grand prize up for consideration since the Jan. 22,2021 drawing when it reached an estimated $1.05 billion – the game's second-largest lottery ticket, which has been did win an out of assert gamer.

Texas has now had 13 Mega Millions progressive jackpot champions since it merged the game in 2003. Its most recent grand prize champion did come in September 2019 that whenever a Leander native did win an guesstimated annuitized $227 million, the largest special award pace with the fast paid over to a lonely Texas Lottery paparticipant

Mega Millions is performed by deciding five digits from a domain of 70 so one Mega Ball current count from the second spectrum of 25 totals. To beat the Mega Millions grand prize, participants must match all six digits attempting to draw including the Mega Ball. Actors corresponding smaller populations might not even earn the lottery ticket and could still move away champions. Mega Millions currently provides a $20 million starting powerball lottery and a second-tier (Match 5 + 0) reward of $1 million. By deciding the Megaplier ® characteristic for $1 so much per Play, participants can cells to grow their non-jackpot rewards by two, three, three or four times, winning as many as $5 million.

About the Texas Lottery

Beginning with the first ticket sold in 1992, the Texas Lottery has generated $35 billion in revenue for the state and distributed $76 billion in prizes to lottery players. Since 1997, the Texas Lottery has contributed $29.2 billion to the Foundation School Fund, which supports public education in Texas. As authorized by the Texas Legislature, certain Texas Lottery revenues benefit state programs including the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance. Since the first veterans’ themed scratch ticket game was launched in 2009, the Texas Lottery has contributed more than $187 million for programs supporting Texas veterans.