Mega Millions jackpot grows to $576m with no winner in sight

• Mega Millions jackpot sees no winners in recent draw, heads for $576m draw on Tuesday, July 7
• Five tickets in California managed to match the five numbers, but could not defy the 1 in 290m odds to win the prize itself
• A ticket in Pennsylvania won $3m from the game, but also missed the grand prize

After a long while, the Mega Millions jackpot has still not been claimed. The current jackpot is valued at $576,000,000, and it has been growing steadily for weeks now, with no players claiming the major prize, which is going to be up for grabs once again on Tuesday, July 7. The award has gone unclaimed for 31 drawings.

Five near-misses in California, but no-one beats the Mega Millions odds

In California, multiple tickets got the five numbers right but missed the Mega number that would have led to the multi-million prize, coming near enough nevertheless. The last drawing’s winning numbers were 5, 9, 29, 47, 57 and a Mega number of 16, with the jackpot sitting at $542,000,000 at the time.

Elsewhere in the country, a ticket in Pennsylvania managed to scoop a prize of $3,000,000, making it one of the largest to have been won during the current run.

However, neither the Californian tickets nor the one sold in Pennsylvania, let alone anywhere else in the United States, were able to defy the game’s rather staggering odds of 1 in 290,472,336.

With a new drawing looming on Tuesday, July 7, the multi-million-dollar prize purse will be up for grabs once again. In the meantime, big jackpots have been dropping around the country all the same.

If not the Mega Millions, then one of the main parallel lottery games, Powerball, has minted a new winner in Indiana. A $143,000,000 lottery ticket was, in fact, won by two people back on April 29, 2026, with one of those players now stepping up to claim their share of the prize, amounting to roughly $71,700,000.

Indiana Powerball winner scoops their share of prize

The Indiana player, who preferred to remain anonymous, picked an outright lump payment instead of annuity payments, with the amount worth $32,600,000 after all applicable taxes have been deducted.

"Indiana’s connection to Powerball began with the game’s very first jackpot winner in 1992 and more than three decades later, we’re still making history," Hoosier Lottery Executive Director Sarah M. Taylor commented on the recent event.

The other winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot was sold in Kansas.

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