Top Prize Reaches $980 Million

TRENTON (November 14, 2025) – The Mega Millions’ top prize now stands at $980 million heading into tonight’s drawing, the eighth highest jackpot in game history.

The cash value of the prize is $452.2 million.

In Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, no player matched the five balls and the Power Ball, and the jackpot is $400 million for Saturday’s drawing.

New Jersey has its place among the game’s record high jackpots. In 2024, a Monmouth County player won a $1.128 billion jackpot, now the sixth highest in game history. The game’s top jackpots:

• $1.602 billion: Aug. 8, 2023, Florida
• $1.537 billion: Oct. 23, 2018, South Carolina
• $1.348 billion: Jan. 13, 2023, Maine
• $1.337 billion: July 29, 2022, Illinois
• $1.269 billion: Dec. 27, 2024, California
• $1.128 billion: March 26, 2024, Monmouth County, New Jersey
• $1.050 billion: Jan. 22, 2021, Michigan
• $980 million: Current run
• $810 million: Sept. 10, 2024, Texas
• $656 million: March 30, 2012, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland

Players don’t have to win the Mega Millions jackpot to win big. After the game rules changed in April to allow a free random multiplier, an Ocean County player in October won $3 million after getting a 3X multiplier on their $1 million base prize. In June, a Bergen player saw $1 million jump to $4 million.

The Mega Millions prize is just one of several notable jackpots New Jersey players are trying to capture:

• Powerball: The jackpot now stands at $546 million for Saturday’s drawing.
• Pick-6: Heading into Saturday’s drawing, the jackpot is $2.8 million.
• Jersey Cash 5: The daily game’s jackpot is $474,000. Over the weekend, two separate jackpots were hit, one for $664,971 in Union County, and another for $160,000 in Ocean County.
• Cash4Life: The daily draw game offers “for life” prizes of $1,000 day for life and $1,000 week for life, with cash value options of $7 million and $1 million respectively. In 2025, one New Jersey player has won the $7 million prize and five have each won $1 million.

About the New Jersey Lottery

Since its inception in 1970, the Lottery has contributed nearly $34.6 billion to the State, helping to support many worthwhile programs and services. Lottery profits currently help bolster the public employee pension system under a 30-year agreement signed into law in 2017.