Instead of splurging on a new house, car or vacation, the winner of Virginia’s largest lottery jackpot ever plans to purchase something unexpected.

Nearly 215,000 other tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $10 to $3 million in the drawing.

The combined jackpots of the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries have surpassed $1.7 billion going into the weekend. The Mega Millions jackpot is up to $977 million, the sixth largest Mega ...

Mega Millions numbers: Are you the lucky winner of Tuesday’s $182 million jackpot? Aug. 12, 2025, 8:08 p.m. Players pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers -- five different numbers from 1 to 70 and one number from 1 to 25 -- or select Easy Pick. A player wins the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.

Are you looking to win big? The DC Lottery offers several games to choose from if you think it’s your lucky day. You can choose from national lottery games, like the Powerball and Mega Millions, or a variety of local games, like the DC 2, DC 3, DC 4 and DC 5.

Mega Millions Lottery forms are pictured at Ted's State Line Mobil in Methuen, Mass., July 24, 2018. Ted's State Line Mobil has the highest payout of all lottery sales points in the Commonwealth ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Powerball jackpot is now the largest it’s been this year, reaching $605 million for the drawing on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. The largest jackpot this year was a $526.5 million prize won March 29 in California. The Saturday, Aug. 16 numbers are 23-40-49-65-69 Powerball 23 Power Play 3x.

The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $198 million for the drawing on Friday, Aug. 15, after no one matched all the winning numbers in the drawing on Tuesday, Aug. 12.