Mega Millions Simulator
What’s in your bank account?
Can you win the Mega Millions jackpot with that?
One ticket in 290,472,336 hits the Mega Millions jackpot. Since the 2025 overhaul every play costs $5 and carries a built-in prize multiplier. Enter a bankroll, choose your numbers, and let the simulator play drawing after drawing — up to millions per second — until the money runs out or the jackpot finally lands.
How much are you playing with?
Pick your numbers
Winning numbers
Prize tiers and your wins
| Match | Odds (1 in…) | Prize (2×–10×) | Wins |
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How this works
Each drawing pulls five white balls from 1–70 and one gold Mega Ball from 1–24 and scores them against your ticket using the prize table in effect since April 2025. Every line costs $5 per drawing, and a slip can carry up to 10 lines — each one is scored separately. At the slow speeds you watch one drawing at a time; at "Ludicrous," drawings are batched between screen repaints, so your machine runs as many as it can each frame. Your bankroll only pays for tickets: winnings are added up separately in "Won" and "Win/loss" and never go back into the bankroll, so it runs out exactly when you've spent what you said you would.
Like a real ticket, every line gets its own random multiplier that applies to any non-jackpot prize: 2× on 15 of every 32 plays, 3× on 10, 4× on 4, 5× on 2, and 10× on 1. That's why the prize column shows ranges, and why the smallest prize — matching just the Mega Ball — is at least $10. The multiplier averages exactly 3×.
Even so, the non-jackpot prizes return about $1.12 of every $5 ticket over the long run. The jackpot has to pass roughly $1.13 billion (advertised annuity, before taxes and split pots) before a ticket is worth its price on paper — about twice the Powerball break-even, because the ticket costs 2.5 times as much.
"Real time" converts the drawing count into how long it would take to play them for real, at two drawings a week (Tuesday and Friday). It counts drawings, not tickets: a 10-line slip still covers just one drawing, so adding lines raises your cost per week, not the calendar time.
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Want the details? Read how the odds are calculated, why the cash option is half the advertised jackpot, and a rundown of the biggest jackpots ever won.