The Mega Millions lottery jackpot for the drawing on Friday the 8th of July is now sitting at $400 million. This makes it the 5th highest Mega Millions lottery jackpot in the last 3 years. It has yet to make it into the top 10 Mega Millions jackpots. In order to do that it will have to grow to higher than $451 million.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot was $1.537 Billion dollars set back in October of 2018 which was won by a single winning ticket in South Carolina.
There have been 4 Mega Millions jackpot wins so far this year with the most recent one being on April 15, 2022. It is now nearly 3 months since the jackpot was won. The prize will continue to grow rapidly if there is no jackpot winner this drawing.
