The Mega Millions jackpot for 11/22/19 is $208 million and the draw will be held today, Friday at 11 pm ET. As already known, five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 to 70, one gold Mega Ball will be drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 to 25.
If the numbers on one row of your ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn today, you will emerge as the winner of today's jackpot to claim the prize money with a cash-value option of $141 million. There are nine categories of prize amounts ranging $2 to the jackpot.
Drawn twice a week
Mega Millions is drawn twice in a week -- Tuesday and Friday. The numbers on last draw held on Tuesday (11/22/19) were: 22-43-44-47-66 with a Mega Ball of 22. The Megaplier was 3x. The jackpot amount was worth $192 million, with a cash-value option of $129.3 million. However, there was no winner for grand prize or for the second prize of $1 million.
In addition, there were 12 tickets that matched four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. Two of those purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1 for third-prize winnings of $30,000. According to Mega Millions, overall chances of winning any prize are 1 in 24, though it is as rare as one in 303 million for jackpot.
Last jackpot winner from Texas
The last Mega Millions grand prize winner was for $227 million on 09/24/19 from the city of Cedar Park, Texas and the winner from nearby Leander claimed prize though he wished to remain anonymous.
Mega Millions jackpots start at $40 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are sole at $2 per line, and odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million.
Who's the latest Mega Million winner?
Latest Mega Million winner was a Leander resident from Texas, who claimed the $227 million jackpot prize that was held on Sept. 24, 2019. As the winner chose the cash value option, she received $157,091,592, the largest prize ever paid out to a single Texas Lottery player.
The winner, who chose to remain anonymous purchased the winning ticket at Lakeline Express Mart, located at 2004 N. Lakeline Blvd., in Cedar Park. The winner is the 13th Mega Millions jackpot winner in Texas and the first since October 2016 when a trust in Rockwall claimed a $49 million.
Texas joined the Mega Million game in 2003 and had its first Mega Millions jackpot winner in 2004 when Ut Van Nguyen of Carrollton claimed the $101 million advertised jackpot from the Oct. 1, 2004 drawing. Ever since its introduction in 1992, the Texas Lottery has generated $29 billion in revenue for the state and distributed $61 billion in prizes so far.
