( Baton Rouge, LA ) Officials with the Louisiana Lottery in Baton Rouge have confirmed that a single ticket sold for Friday night’s multi-state Mega Millions lottery game has matched the numbers needed to win the game’s jackpot prize. According to Mega Millions and the Louisiana Lottery, the top prize in Saturday’s drawing was $112 million.
This jackpot win marks the first top prize payout for the multi-state lottery game since wholesale changes were made to it on April 8th. The new Mega Millions format costs more per ticket to play, but so far, it has delivered on its promise to make more winners with bigger prizes.
In a press release from last week, Mega Millions game officials suggested that prize payouts were about five times more than they would have been under the game’s old format. The two major changes in the Mega Millions game are that the ticket price jumped from $2 or $3 with a Megaplier to $5 per ticket and that each ticket comes with a multiplier that could be anywhere from “2x” to “10x.”
Here is the way the drawing for April 18, 2025, played out.
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