Mega Millions is one of America's two flagship multi-state lottery games, with drawings every Tuesday and Friday. With jackpots that regularly reach hundreds of millions of dollars, millions of players search for patterns in the historical data hoping to improve their odds.
LottoIQ's database contains over 1,200 Mega Millions draws. Here's what the frequency data shows.
These main ball numbers (drawn from 1-70) have appeared most often in our historical database:
These numbers have appeared least frequently across all draws in our database:
Notably the higher numbers (60-70) appear cold across the board. The pool was expanded from 75 to 70 balls in 2017 and those upper numbers have had less time to accumulate draws.
The Mega Ball is drawn separately from a pool of 1-25:
Mega Millions uses two separate drums: one with 70 white balls (5 drawn) and one with 25 gold Mega Balls (1 drawn). To win the jackpot you must match all 5 white balls and the Mega Ball — odds of 1 in 302,575,350.
When Mega Millions changed format in October 2017, expanding the main ball pool from 75 to 70, numbers 1-70 theoretically have equal odds per draw. But the all-time historical data reflects the old format. Our analysis focuses on patterns within the current format where applicable.
Beyond all-time frequency, LottoIQ tracks which numbers are trending — appearing more often in the last 50 draws compared to their all-time average. The trend view updates automatically after every Tuesday and Friday drawing.
Current hot numbers, frequency heatmap, trend analysis and suggested picks — updated after every draw.
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