A Mega Millions player in California won big by matching five numbers in Tuesday night's drawing, with the ticket sold at Diablo Chevron in Danville. The jackpot for the drawing was an estimated $137 million, with a cash option of $63 million. The last jackpot was won on June 4 when a player in Illinois won $552 million. The Powerball jackpot is at $138 million with a cash option of $65.8 million. The winning numbers for the July 2, 2024, Mega Millions drawing were 4 - 8 - 19 - 31 - 45 and Megaball 11, with a Megaplier of 4x. Mega Millions drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. The cost to play is $2 per ticket, with the option to add the Megaplier for $1. Players select five numbers from 1 to 70 for the white balls and one number from 1 to 25 for the Mega Ball. Matching just the Mega Ball wins $2, while matching one of the five numbers and the Mega Ball is worth $4. The jackpot continued to rise after no tickets matched all six numbers from the previous drawing. The next Mega Millions drawing is on Friday, July 5, with tickets available for purchase until 10 p.m. in New York and 10:45 p.m. in New Jersey and Connecticut. The Megaplier feature increases non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, or five times for an additional $1 per play. The top 10 Mega Millions jackpots of all time range from $1.05 billion to $1.602 billion. In Ohio, there were thousands of winners who hit smaller prizes in the previous drawing, with the jackpot climbing to $137 million for the next drawing. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are one in 302,575,350.
