Mega Millions Jackpot Could Break New York State Record

Tonight's Mega Millions could turn a New York State resident into a record-breaker.

The grand prize jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions drawing is up to $740 million dollars and that would set the record for largest lottery jackpot ever won by a New York State resident.

The current record was set back in April 2023, when Johnnie Taylor won the grand prize Mega Millions drawing for $476 million dollars.

Tonight's jackpot would crush that by over $250 million dollars.

So what are the odds that you can win the grand prize tonight? To be honest, not great.

According to the New York State Lottery's website, the odds of winning the grand prize for the Mega Millions is 1 in 302,575,350

In order to win the grand prize, you have to match all five of the common numbers and then match the Megaball.

The good news is that even if you don't win the grand prize you could still win a ton of money.

The 2nd place prize for the Mega Millions is $1 million dollars. In order to win that you would have to match all five numbers but miss out on the Megaball. The odds of winning the 2nd place prize is 1 in 12,607,306

You could also win the 3rd place prize of $10,000. In order to win that prize, you would have to match four out of five numbers and also match the Megaball. The odds of winning $10,000 is 1 in 931,001

Overall the odds of winning any kind of prize with the Mega Millions is 1 in 24.