JackpotAnalyzer

Mega Millions

How long would it take to win the Mega Millions jackpot if you bought a quick-pick ticket every time? Press the green button and watch. The simulator buys one new random ticket after another (5 numbers from 1-70 and 1 Mega Ball from 1-24), checks each one against a random drawing, and keeps count of what you would have spent and won. It is just for fun, and nothing here helps you win.

This site does not guarantee winning. Lottery draws are random and past results do not predict future results. Every chart here describes the past. It cannot raise your chances of winning.

Your latest ticket

Your ticket (random quick pick)

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Winning numbers for this ticket

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Press the green button. Every ticket gets its own random numbers, and the balls with a green ring are the ones that matched.

How much have you spent and won?

Tickets bought
0
Total spent
$0
Total won
$0
Net
+$0

Over a very long time, those prizes return about $0.22 for every $1 spent, not counting the jackpot.

How long would the jackpot take?

Each ticket has a 1 in 290,472,336 chance of winning the jackpot.

The bar shows how many tickets you have bought compared with the odds.

  • To have a 50% chance of at least one jackpot you would need about 201,340,083 tickets. That is 1,935,962 years of buying one ticket for every drawing, and about $1,006,700,415 spent.
  • A person who bought one ticket for every drawing from age 18 to 90 would buy about 7,488 tickets, so they would almost certainly never win the jackpot.

Wins by prize

  • 51Jackpot
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    290,472,336
  • 5$1,000,000
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    12,629,232
  • 41$10,000
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    893,761
  • 4$500
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    38,859.2
  • 31$200
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    13,965
  • 3$10
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    607.2
  • 21$10
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    665
  • 11$7
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    85.8
  • 01$5
    Wins
    0
    Won
    $0
    Seen 1 in
    -
    True 1 in
    35.2

The ball icons show how many white balls matched and whether the Mega Ball matched.

'Seen' is what happened in this simulation, 'True odds' is the real chance. They move closer together the more tickets you buy, but rare prizes can stay far off for a very long time.

Settings · pretend jackpot $100,000,000 · $5 per ticketChange

Every ticket is a new quick pick: 5 random white balls from 1-70 and 1 random Mega Ball from 1-24. It is checked against its own random drawing. Changing a setting starts a new simulation. No real money is involved.