Here are Tuesday’s winning Mega Millions numbers as lottery jackpot surpasses $1 billion
Update: No ticket matched the winning numbers from Tuesday, Aug. 1, California Lottery officials said late Tuesday. As a result, Friday’s jackpot will grow to an estimated $1.25 billion.
The estimated $1.1 billion jackpot for Tuesday evening’s Mega Millions drawing marked the first time in U.S. lottery history that California players have had two chances to becoming billionaires in less than two weeks.
The winning Mega Millions numbers for the Tuesday, Aug. 1, drawing were 8, 24, 30, 45 and 61, and the Mega number was 12, Mega Millions officials said during the drawing just after 8 p.m. Pacific.
A small market in downtown Los Angeles sold the country’s only jackpot-winning Powerball ticket for the July 19 drawing; a ticket that it is now worth $1.08 billion, California Lottery officials said Tuesday in a news release. The winner for that $1 billion ticket has yet to come forward.
The top prize for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing has an estimated cash value of $550.2 million, according to lottery officials. The winner has to pay federal taxes, but California is one of just 10 states to exempt state income tax on lottery winnings.
This Mega Millions jackpot has been growing since April, having rolled over 29 times so far. Sales in California just for this game have totaled more than $192 million in the more than three months since the rolling sequence began.
This has helped California Lottery raise an estimated $77 million for public education, lottery officials said. Mega Millions tickets are $2 each. Each ticket sold in California generates about 80 cents that goes to public education.
The jackpot is the fourth-largest in Mega Millions game history and the sixth-largest jackpot in the United States. If nobody wins Tuesday’s top prize, the jackpot will roll over for a 30th consecutive time.
Each Mega Millions jackpot starts at $20 million. If there’s more than one grand prize winner, the jackpot is divided equally among the winners.
Mega Millions is a multi-state game available through 47 lotteries nationwide; that’s 45 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This story was originally published August 1, 2023 at 8:02 PM with the headline "Here are Tuesday’s winning Mega Millions numbers as lottery jackpot surpasses $1 billion."
