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Mega Millions

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Latest drawTuesday, 13 October 2026

Verified

Jackpot$385,000,000

Top prizeNot won — 17 draws unwonnext draw advertised at $403,000,000

Sources2 independent sources agree, 1 official. Settled 14 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTC.

Secondary 5official14 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTC
Primarycommercial feed14 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTC

Next drawFriday, 16 October 202623:00 New York time

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What it will look like — before a single ball moves

Every number8.9% chance each

All 56 numbers have the same chance of coming out — including the ones that have waited longest:

2980333352314223822

Draws since each last appeared. A wait is not a debt: the machine keeps no ledger.

The total107–178

The main numbers will add up to somewhere in this band in about 69% of draws, around a middle of 143. Most tickets sit there too, so it is no edge.

Shape2 odd + 3 even, or the reverse

The likeliest split, at 65%. And a 32% chance that two numbers come out side by side — the rules talking, not luck.

Déjà vu39% chance of a repeat

That at least one of the latest draw’s numbers (5, 20, 45, 48, 56) comes straight back. Repeats are ordinary; a whole draw repeating is not.

The jackpot6.1% chance it goes

If about 11M lines are played again, as the last prize table implied, expect 0.06 jackpot winners — so a rollover is the likelier outcome. Around 278k lines will win something (1 in 40).

If you playLeast played: 32–39, 41–49, 51–56

No number wins more often. A line of numbers the crowd avoids — above 31, not round, not lucky — wins exactly as often and shares less when it does. That is the only edge there is, and it still loses money.

Everything above is a property of the rules and the odds, not a tip about the numbers. The machine has no memory; nothing is ever due.

5 numbers from 1–56, plus 1 from 1–46. 3,068 draws held here since 1996-09-06 — 159 under the current rules.

23% independently confirmedEvery number →My numbers →

175,711,536possible tickets

78times each number is expected so far

39%of draws repeat a number from the last one

Rules changed on 2025-04-08

Mega Millions changed its number pool then, which started a new era. Only the 159 draws since count towards number statistics — mixing draws from before a rule change would make any frequency meaningless.

Your numbers, read by every tool

Type the numbers you always play. Has the line ever come up? How close has Mega Millions come? What has each number done, what does the line look like, and has the same set turned up anywhere else in the world?

Every tool, for this game

Each one opens with Mega Millions already selected. The line under every title is true of this game’s rules right now — not a promise about its next draw.

Frequency Explorer

In 869 draws every number is expected about 78 times, and a ball favoured by more than 45% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker

A number waits 11 draws on average; 5% of the time it waits 34 or more. It is never “due”.

Sum Distribution

The 5 numbers add up to about 143, give or take 35. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.

Consecutive Numbers Surprise

32.0% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.

Harmony Matrix

1,540 possible pairs, each expected together 5.6 times so far — and about 15 will look “special” by chance alone.

Number Constellation

All 56 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu

39% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 9.4% likely by now.

Delta Space

Sorted, the numbers sit about 9.5 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.

The other 43 tools for Mega Millions

Coverage Race

It takes about 50 draws for every one of the 56 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.

Draw Fingerprints

175,711,536 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.

Randomness Observatory

Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 869 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.

Positional Ribbons

The lowest number lands near 10, the highest near 48. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.

Cross-Lottery Mirror

5/56 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.

Six true stories

Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.

Cultural Numbers Atlas

What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge

At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 13% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.

Wheel Workshop

A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 252 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.

Myth Rebuttal

Five folk claims about 5/56 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.

Take the record with youRSS JSON feed CSV, every draw Draw nights, in your calendar API

Rule eras

Prize breakdown · 2026-10-13

Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply

Paid out$4.7Mto 230k winning lines

Won something1 in 48lines took a prize

Match 5 + Mega Ball0 winnerschance said 0.06

Where the money went

Match 35.9%$278.0K
Match 1 plus Mega Ball29%$1.3M
Match 0 plus Mega Ball47%$2.2M
4 other tiers18%$862.8K

Match 5 + Mega Ball0≈ 0.06 by chance$385,000,000
Match 55 rows folded in0≈ 2.8 by chance$2,000,000to $10,000,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball5 rows folded in7≈ 16 by chance$20,000to $100,000
Match 45 rows folded in145≈ 723 by chance$1,000to $5,000
Match 3 plus Mega Ball5 rows folded in403≈ 804 by chance$400to $2,000
Match 2 plus Mega Ball5 rows folded in8,028≈ 13k by chance$20.00to $100
Match 35 rows folded in9,243≈ 36k by chance$20.00to $100
Match 1 plus Mega Ball5 rows folded in63,671≈ 79k by chance$14.00to $70.00
Match 0 plus Mega Ball5 rows folded in148,043≈ 148k by chance$10.00to $50.00

Winners, log scale
Prize each, log scale
Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 145 winners, 80% fewer than the 723 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table

Match	Winners	Prize each
Match 5 + Mega Ball	0	$385,000,000
Match 5 (10x Multiplier)	0	$10,000,000
Match 5 (5x Multiplier)	0	$5,000,000
Match 5 (4x Multiplier)	0	$4,000,000
Match 5 (3x Multiplier)	0	$3,000,000
Match 5 (2x Multiplier)	0	$2,000,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball (10x Multiplier)	0	$100,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball (5x Multiplier)	0	$50,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball (4x Multiplier)	1	$40,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball (3x Multiplier)	1	$30,000
Match 4 plus Mega Ball (2x Multiplier)	5	$20,000
Match 4 (10x Multiplier)	1	$5,000
Match 4 (5x Multiplier)	11	$2,500
Match 4 (4x Multiplier)	20	$2,000
Match 4 (3x Multiplier)	51	$1,500
Match 4 (2x Multiplier)	62	$1,000
Match 3 plus Mega Ball (10x Multiplier)	12	$2,000
Match 3 plus Mega Ball (5x Multiplier)	27	$1,000
Match 3 plus Mega Ball (4x Multiplier)	44	$800
Match 3 plus Mega Ball (3x Multiplier)	133	$600
Match 3 plus Mega Ball (2x Multiplier)	187	$400
Match 3 (10x Multiplier)	295	$100
Match 3 (5x Multiplier)	590	$50.00
Match 3 (4x Multiplier)	1,156

Draws waited	Happened	Chance says
0–1	3	11.1
2–3	13	8.5
4–5	7	6.5
6–7	6	4.9
8–9	6	3.8
10–11	4	2.9
12–13	1	2.2
14–15	4	1.7
16–17	0	1.3
18–19	3	1.0
20+	0	3.2

Mega Millions

Frequency Explorer

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker

Sum Distribution

Consecutive Numbers Surprise

Harmony Matrix

Number Constellation

Carry-over / Déjà Vu

Delta Space

Coverage Race

Draw Fingerprints

Randomness Observatory

Positional Ribbons

Cross-Lottery Mirror

Six true stories

Cultural Numbers Atlas

The Unpopular Numbers Edge

Wheel Workshop

Myth Rebuttal

Rule eras

Pattern Court

Draw Rank Stream

Anytime Bias Watch

Whole-Draw Drift

Conditional Harmony

Residue Kaleidoscope

Crowd Calibration Lab

Calibration Forge

Johnson Spectrum

Compression Lab

Forecast Arena

Exchangeability Watch

Gap Uniformizer

Sharing Map

Return Ledger

Rule-Change Ledger

Machine Room

Calendar Court

World Fairness Board

Regression Ledger

Lottery Design Studio

Chance Detective

The Headline Factory

The Crowd Through Time

Thirty Years of Saturdays

Pattern Recipe Lab

Arithmetic Progression Garden

Same Odds, Different Waits

Wrong Formula Lab

Euler’s Lottery Desk

Casanova’s Risky Treasury

The Lottery That Chose Lives

The Museum Built by Chance

Digit Laboratory

Chernoff Map

Balls versus RNG

How ordinary this draw is

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Its nearest twin

Sum and shape

The longest wait in this draw

How many people held it

Prize breakdown · 2026-10-13

Jackpot

How long the waits are

What a line is worth

Where the billboard figure goes

The two ways money comes back

Recent draws