New York Mega Millions (October 2026)
The short version
New York sells Mega Millions on the standard terms: the national prize chart is what you are paid, and both $1 add-ons are available. At the jackpot standing after the October 2, 2026 draw, one $5 ticket bought in New York is worth $1.21 — 24 cents on the dollar once New York's 10.9% withholding comes off the jackpot, against $1.26 before it.
What is different in New York
- Ticket price
- $5 a line
- Every $5 Mega Millions ticket has carried a built-in multiplier since April 2025; there is no separate add-on to buy.
- Prize structure
- Fixed, as the chart
- The published amounts are what you are paid — New York does not adjust them for sales.
- State withholding
- 10.9%
- New York City adds 3.876%, Yonkers 1.477%. Federal withholding of 24% applies on top, everywhere.
- Minimum age
- 18
- New York Lottery's own rule. Five jurisdictions set it higher.
Rules read from powerball.com and New York Lottery on 2026-09-22. Withholding rates and the calculator.
What a New York ticket is worth right now
The advertised jackpot is $321 million. The cash value is about $136 million, because the headline is a 30-year annuity and nobody takes it. At that jackpot our sales model puts the chance of having to share a win at enough that a winning ticket is worth 94% of the prize on average rather than all of it. Then New York withholds 10.9% — about $15 million of that cash value — and the federal 24% comes off on top of that.
The withholding only comes off the jackpot term here, not off the whole figure. Nearly all of a ticket's non-jackpot value sits in the $4.00 and $7.00 tiers, which no state withholds on; taxing those too would push the number down in a way that happens to flatter our own conclusion, so we do not. The draw-by-draw chart behind this is on the Mega Millions page.
Hot and cold numbers
The drawing is national, so the frequencies are too — there is no New York hot number, only a Mega Millions one. Over 932 draws of the current 5/70 + 1/24 matrix, 10 has come up most (87 times against 67 expected) and 11 has waited longest, 56 draws.
10 has come up most often, 87 times. Each number averages about 67 over 932 draws, and whichever number happens to lead normally finishes around 19 ahead. 10 is 20 ahead, so this is an ordinary spread rather than a streak. 51 has come up least, 52 times.
New York's own draw games
Mega Millions is the same everywhere. These are not — New York Lottery runs them, and we hold their full history.
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Daily · 25,763 draws on file
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All New York lottery results →
New York Mega Millions questions
- Can you buy Power Play in New York?
- Yes. It costs $1 a play on top of the $2 ticket and multiplies every prize below the jackpot by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 — the 10 only when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less. We price that extra dollar at about 46 cents at a large jackpot and 50 cents when the 10× ball is in the drum.
- Is Double Play available in New York?
- Yes. For $1 your numbers go into a second drawing straight after the main one, with its own prize table topping out at $10 million. Every prize in it is fixed and none of them rolls, which makes it the one multi-state bet whose expected value is exact: about 53 cents per dollar. 30 of the 48 lotteries sell it.
- How much tax does New York take from a Mega Millions win?
- New York withholds 10.9% (new york city adds 3.876%, yonkers 1.477%), on top of the 24% held back federally. On the cash value of the jackpot as it stands now that is about $15 million to the state alone. Withholding is not the final bill — what you actually owe is settled when you file. Run your own number through the calculator.
- Are Mega Millions prizes in New York the same as the national prize chart?
- Yes. Every prize below the jackpot is a set cash amount in New York, exactly as the national chart prints it. Only California pays pari-mutuel instead.
- How old do you have to be to play Mega Millions in New York?
- 18. New York Lottery sets it, and a winning ticket has to be claimed in the jurisdiction where it was bought.
- Where were the New York Mega Millions numbers drawn?
- In Tallahassee, Florida, like every Mega Millions drawing — one drawing serves all 47 jurisdictions. The numbers on this page are the same numbers as everywhere else; what the page adds is what they are worth to a New York ticket. The national analysis is here.
Where these facts come from
The winning numbers are cross-checked against more than one official source before they go up —
every source and every correction is listed. The
New York-specific rules were read from
powerball.com and
New York Lottery on 2026-09-22, and
bao draws jurisdictions re-reads the published lists on every run and fails if
either has moved. How the expected values are computed.