Mega Millions Numbers for 12/30/22, Friday Jackpot Was $685 Million

October 2024 · 3 minute read

The Mega Millions jackpot for 12/30/22 was $685 million, and here are the winning numbers from Friday night's drawing.

Friday night's 12/30/22 Mega Millions jackpot was worth $685 million, with a cash-value option worth $347.8 million. There was no grand prize winner on Friday, so the Tuesday 01/03/2023 jackpot has already risen to $785 million.

The winning numbers last Tuesday (12/27/22) for the $565 million jackpot were: 09-13-36-59-61 with a Mega Ball of 11. The Megaplier was 2x.

There was no grand prize winner on Tuesday but there were five tickets sold, two in California and one each from Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, that matched the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the game's second prize of $1 million. Had they purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1, their second prizes would have been worth $2 million.

There were 44 tickets sold nationwide on Tuesday that matched four of the five white balls plus the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. Three of those purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1, which made their third-prize winnings worth $20,000 apiece.

Here are the Mega Millions jackpots won in 2022:

Here are the six Mega Millions jackpots won in 2021:

The previous winning ticket before that was sold in Wisconsin on 09/15/20 for a jackpot worth $119 million. That was only the fifth, and final, Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year.

Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020:

Other winners—dating back to 2019—were a $372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $227 million ticket that was sold on 09/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas—a suburb north of Austin.

Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and it is one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $20 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $2 per line, and odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. For more information on Mega Millions, or to check your past numbers, visit its website.

Powerball is the other multi-state lottery, and it also starts at $20 million. Its drawings take place shortly after 11 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here is the Powerball website for more information, or to check past winning numbers.

Here are the top 10 Mega Millions Jackpots to date:

Amount/Date/Winning Tickets

  • $1.537 billion 10/23/2018 1-SC
  • $1.337 billion 07/29/2022 1-CA, 1-FL
  • $1.05 billion 01/22/2021 1-MI
  • $685 million – CURRENT JACKPOT
  • $656 million 3/30/2012 1-IL, 1-KS, 1-MD
  • $648 million 12/17/2013 1-CA, 1-GA
  • $543 million 7/24/2018 1-CA
  • $536 million 7/8/2016 1-IN
  • $533 million 3/30/2018 1-NJ
  • $522 million 6/07/2019 1-CA

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