Mega Millions number frequency, odds and draw history

Mega Millions draws 5 numbers from 70, plus one Mega Ball from 24. This page counts 152 draws under the current rules, from April 8, 2025 to September 18, 2026, sold in every participating US jurisdiction, 21 of which this app catalogues.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 152 draws each ball should turn up about 11 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 5 and 17. Not one of the 70 balls falls outside it.

This is the part worth reading twice. A number drawn more often than its neighbours has not become more likely, and the table below is sorted only because people expect it to be. The average wait between appearances for any one ball is 14.0 draws, so a gap several times that long is ordinary rather than overdue.

Ranked by how often each number has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Number	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
17	17	typical	3
18	17	typical	14
40	17	typical	29
42	17	typical	6
49	17	typical	15
30	16	typical	2
43	16	typical	1
56	16	typical	0
63	16	typical	5
10	15	typical	7
34	15	typical	4
24	14	typical	0
27	14	typical	1
38	14	typical	9
48	14	typical	7
58	14	typical	1
59	14	typical	4
11	13	typical	52
13	13	typical	24
21	13	typical	13
2	12	typical	16
6	12	typical	4
16	12	typical	26
22	12	typical	5
36	12	typical	1
50	12	typical	7
55	12	typical	6
62	12	typical	2
68	12	typical	0
4	11	typical	0
19	11	typical	9
33	11	typical	2
47	11	typical	7
51	11	typical	5
52	11	typical	24
57	11	typical	1
5	10	typical	9
12	10	typical	27
26	10	typical	4
31	10	typical	21
39	10	typical	20
41	10	typical	23
60	10	typical	10
66	10	typical	3
14	9	typical	13
25	9	typical	8
37	9	typical	17
1	8	typical	5
8	8	typical	6
9	8	typical	0
44	8	typical	16
53	8	typical	2
61	8	typical	4
64	8	typical	35
65	8	typical	13
69	8	typical	45
70	8	typical	15
3	7	typical	2
7	7	typical	7
15	7	typical	31
20	7	typical	11
23	7	typical	10
32	7	typical	12
35	7	typical	21
45	7	typical	18
46	7	typical	10
54	7	typical	12
29	6	typical	6
28	5	typical	50
67	5	typical	27

The Mega Ball

Drawn from its own machine, one ball per draw out of 24, so it is counted on its own and compared against its own range rather than the one above. Across 152 draws each ball should turn up about 6 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 1 and 11. 1 of the 24 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 1 there, so this is an ordinary result. 23 balls are indistinguishable from random.

Ranked by how often each mega ball has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Mega Ball	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
12	13	above the band	not in this era
24	11	typical	not in this era
16	10	typical	not in this era
1	9	typical	not in this era
7	9	typical	not in this era
2	8	typical	not in this era
6	7	typical	not in this era
10	7	typical	not in this era
17	7	typical	not in this era
4	6	typical	not in this era
9	6	typical	not in this era
14	6	typical	not in this era
23	6	typical	not in this era
3	5	typical	not in this era
5	5	typical	not in this era
8	5	typical	not in this era
18	5	typical	not in this era
19	5	typical	not in this era
21	5	typical	not in this era
22	5	typical	not in this era
20	4	typical	not in this era
11	3	typical	not in this era
13	3	typical	not in this era
15	2	typical	not in this era

The odds

Matching all 5 plus the Mega Ball is 1 in 290,472,336. Every tier is worked from the matrix directly, so these are exact rather than rounded figures copied from a leaflet.

Exact probabilities, worked from the matrix rather than quoted from anywhere.
Match	Chance per ticket
5 of 5 + Mega Ball	1 in 290,472,336
5 of 5	1 in 12,629,232
4 of 5 + Mega Ball	1 in 893,761
4 of 5	1 in 38,859
3 of 5 + Mega Ball	1 in 13,965
3 of 5	1 in 607
2 of 5 + Mega Ball	1 in 665
2 of 5	1 in 29
1 of 5 + Mega Ball	1 in 86
1 of 5	1 in 4

The rules have changed 4 times

Every boundary below was derived from the published draws themselves, by walking them in order and taking the first date no earlier matrix can account for, then checked against the announced change dates. A boundary can only ever be late, never early, which keeps every draw inside the era it is filed under.

This is why the counts above are scoped to the current rules. An all-time count for Mega Millions would mix in draws from a different drum, where balls added later never had a chance to appear, and those balls would read as permanently cold for a reason that has nothing to do with luck.

In effect	Main pool	Bonus pool
May 15, 2002 to June 24, 2005	52	52
June 24, 2005 to October 22, 2013	56	46
October 22, 2013 to October 31, 2017	75	15
October 31, 2017 to April 8, 2025	70	25
April 8, 2025 to today	70	24

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 18, 2026	4 · 9 · 24 · 56 · 68 +1
September 15, 2026	27 · 36 · 43 · 57 · 58 +16
September 11, 2026	3 · 30 · 33 · 53 · 62 +22
September 8, 2026	17 · 30 · 43 · 58 · 66 +20
September 4, 2026	6 · 26 · 34 · 59 · 61 +24
September 1, 2026	1 · 22 · 51 · 61 · 63 +17
August 28, 2026	8 · 17 · 29 · 42 · 55 +2
August 25, 2026	7 · 10 · 47 · 48 · 50 +14
August 21, 2026	1 · 25 · 34 · 48 · 57 +24
August 18, 2026	5 · 19 · 30 · 38 · 59 +12

Where this comes from

Every draw on this page came from the jurisdiction that ran it, and the matrix was derived from that published history rather than copied from a marketing page. The full archive, 2,538 Mega Millions draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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