Mega Millions Drawing For 07/16/21, Friday Jackpot is $117 Million

By Scott McDonald On 7/16/21 at 3:00 PM EDT

The Mega Millions jackpot for 07/16/21 is $117 million, and the drawing will be held at 11 p.m. ET tonight.

Keep this page bookmarked and refresh it to see if you hold the winning numbers from Friday night's drawing.

Friday night's 07/16/21 Mega Millions jackpot is worth $117 million, with a cash-value option worth $83.6 million. The total jackpot could increase depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing.

The winning numbers last Tuesday (07/13/21) for the $104 million jackpot were: 03-10-17-26-55 with a Mega Ball of 24. The Megaplier was 2x.

There was no grand prize winner on Tuesday, nor were there any tickets sold that matched the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the game's second prize of $1 million.

There were 10 tickets sold nationwide on Tuesday that matched four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball for the $10,000 third prize. Four of those purchased the Megaplier for an extra $1, which makes their third-prize winnings worth $20,000.

Mega Millions Multi-State Lottery — Mega Millions is one of two multi-state lottery games. Here are tickets from multiple states—Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi—bought in February and March. Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays. The other multi-state lottery game is Powerball, which is played on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Scott McDonald/Newsweek

Here are the previous Mega Millions grand prize winners in 2021:

06/08/2021 — $56 million (Illinois)
05/21/2021 — $516 million (Pennsylvania)
02/16/2021 — $96 million (New York)
01/22/2021 — $1.05 billion (Michigan)

The previous winning ticket before that was sold in Wisconsin on 09/15/20 for a jackpot worth $119 million. That was only the fifth, and final, Mega Millions jackpot won in the 2020 calendar year.

Here are the five Mega Millions jackpots won in 2020:

$119 million — September 15 in Wisconsin
$22 million — July 31 in California
$124 million — July 24 in New Jersey
$410 million — June 9 in Arizona
$202 million — February 11 in New Jersey

Other winners—dating back to 2019—were a $372 million ticket sold in Ohio and a $227 million ticket that was sold on 09/24/19 in the city of Cedar Park, Texas—a suburb north of Austin.

Mega Millions is a multi-state lottery every Tuesday and Friday night, and it is one of America's two biggest lottery jackpot games. Mega Millions jackpots start at $20 million, and other prizes pay from $1 million to $2 million or more with a Megaplier. Tickets are $2 per line, and odds of winning with a $2 Mega Millions ticket are one in 303 million. For more information on Mega Millions, or to check your past numbers, visit its website.

Powerball is the other multi-state lottery, and it also starts at $20 million. Its drawings take place shortly after 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday and Saturday nights. Here is the Powerball website for more information, or to check past winning numbers.

Friday night we will post the Mega Millions 07/16/21 drawing payouts and tell if there was a winner and where that winner came from, if so.