Are you a new millionaire? Here are Tuesday’s winning Mega Millions lottery numbers
A little over three months ago, the nation’s two large lottery games soared to high prizes, including one breaking the rare billion-dollar mark.
While the latest jackpot for one isn’t quite at that level, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.
The winning numbers for the Mega Millions May 4 drawing were 4, 27, 32, 57 and 63, with a Mega number is 22, officials in Atlanta said during the drawing at 8 p.m. Pacific.
The jackpot, originally estimated at $345 million Tuesday, increased to $370 million when no winner was announced.
The top prize for Friday currently has an estimated cash value of $254.1 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.
While Tuesday’s jackpot should be more than enough for you and your family to live comfortably, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the top jackpot of 2021. A Mega Millions ticket in Michigan on Jan. 22 matched all six numbers for an estimated $1 billion, the third-highest lottery prize in American history. Just two days prior, a lucky winner in Maryland matched all six numbers on a Powerball ticket worth an estimated $731.1 million — the fourth-largest in Powerball history and No. 6 all time in an American lottery game.
The top U.S. lottery payout, a Powerball jackpot of nearly $1.59 billion, was split between three tickets on Jan. 13, 2016, with winners in California, Florida and Tennessee. Just behind that, a Mega Millions prize of about $1.54 billion was claimed in October 2018 by one lucky ticket in South Carolina.
Mega Millions tickets are $2 each and the game is drawn on Tuesdays and Fridays. To play, you must select five numbers between 1 and 70, and a “Mega” number between 1 and 25. Players have a 1-in-24 chance of winning anything in a given drawing, with odds of winning the jackpot at about 1 in 302.6 million.
Tickets for this game are sold in 45 states across the country, plus Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands. Sales end at 7 p.m. Pacific time the day of the drawing and the numbers are revealed an hour later.
If you win less than $600, you can take your ticket to a retailer in exchange for cash, according to the California Lottery. If you win more than $600, download a claim form and deliver it to any lottery district office or mail it to 730 N. 10th St., Sacramento, CA 95811.
