Mega Millions Jackpot Up To $555 Million For Friday’s $5 Drawing

If the number five happens to be your lucky number, you are in luck for Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot, as a $5 ticket could win you $555 million, which is the estimated top prize.

Naturally, you’ll want to buy your ticket at 5:55 today, preferably at a five-and-dime on Fifth Avenue, after work lets out at 5 p.m. and before dinner at Five Guys. 

We’ll stop now.

Actually, no. We’re going to keep going.

On the drive over to buy your lottery ticket, you can listen to the Jackson 5, the Dave Clark Five, Ben Folds Five (technically only three guys, but we’ll allow it), “Mambo No. 5,” and, if traffic is particularly bad, Beethoven’s Fifth in its entirety.

Hand the clerk a five, tuck the ticket in the little fifth pocket of your jeans and head home for a Fifth Avenue candy bar and a rerun of Hawaii Five-O. And if all this works and you wake up Saturday with $555 million, we think a 5% finder’s fee is reasonable. 

Now we’re done.

At any rate … nobody won Tuesday’s drawing: numbers 2, 18, 25, 30, 65, and a gold Mega ball of 22. That happened to be the 30th drawing without a winner, which is — duh — divisible by five.

There was one Match Five winner (naturally), with that lucky duck hitting with a 3x multiplier. That ticket was purchased in Texas.

Lottery Geeks estimates a shade under 7.2 million tickets were sold for Tuesday’s drawing.

Powerball lacks fives

Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot is for $63 million after nobody won on Wednesday night.

Those numbers were 8, 42, 45, 51, 57, and a red Powerball of 17. There were no tickets that matched all five white balls.

Lottery Geeks estimates 8.4 million tickets were sold for that drawing.

Tickets for Mega Millions cost $5 and Powerball tickets cost $2. Most states offer the multiplier option for Powerball, which impacts any prize won except the jackpot, for an additional $1. Mega Millions comes with an automatic multiplier for any prize except the jackpot.

Both Powerball and Mega Millions are legal in all states except Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. Tickets for both draw games are also sold in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In Puerto Rico and the U.K., customers can buy tickets for Powerball, but not for Mega Millions.

All-time biggest jackpots

Here is a list of the all-time top 10 U.S. lottery jackpots:

1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022, won in California
2. $1.82 billion, Powerball, Dec. 24, 2025, won in Arkansas
3. $1.79 billion, Powerball, Sept. 6, 2025, won in Missouri and Texas
4. $1.76 billion, Powerball, Oct. 11, 2023, won in California
5. $1.6 billion, Mega Millions, Aug. 8, 2023, won in Florida
6. $1.59 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016, won in California, Florida, and Tennessee
7. $1.54 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018, won in South Carolina
8. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023, won in Maine
9. $1.34 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022, won in Illinois
10. $1.33 billion, Powerball, April 6, 2024, won in Oregon

Here is the all-time top 10 by lump-sum cash value:

1. $997.6 million, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022, won in California
2. $983.5 million, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016, won in California, Florida, and Tennessee
3. $877.8 million, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018, won in South Carolina
4. $834.9 million, Powerball, Dec. 24, 2025, won in Arkansas
5. $820.6 million, Powerball, Sept. 6, 2025, won in Missouri and Texas
6. $794.2 million, Mega Millions, Aug. 8, 2023, won in Florida
7. $780.5 million, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022, won in Illinois
8. $776.6 million, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021, won in Michigan
9. $774.1 million, Powerball, Oct. 11, 2023, won in California
10. $723.5 million, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023, won in Maine