How can I find the Mega-Sena winning numbers?

The wonderful South American country of Brazil was a Portuguese colony for 322 years and Portuguese is the official language spoken there. They have been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years, so the next time you have your morning coffee, perhaps you could think of Brazil whose labour of love you may be drinking.

Another Brazilian labour of love is their fabulous Mega-Sena lottery where most Brazilian players like to dream of winning that amazing jackpot that can change their lives and secure their future for all time.

Thanks to the worldwide web, it is now possible for everyone around the world who has access to the internet to buy their Mega-Sena lottery tickets online at PlayUSALotteries.com and its also possible check the Mega-Sena Lottery results where it’s easy to locate the Mega-Sena Lottery winning numbers.

Right after after the Mega-Sena draw and the Mega-Sena results have been published, PlayUSALotteries.com will automatically check the numbers you picked against the drawn Mega-Sena lottery winning numbers.

Should you manage to match the Mega-Sena winning numbers and win the Mega-Sena jackpot or any other prizes, your winnings will credited to your account at PlayUSALotteries.com immediately and we will send you an email confirming your win and will include the Mega-Sena results.

All the latest Mega-Sena winning numbers, including all the other prize categories, can be located on the results section when you click Mega-Sena button at PlayUSALotteries.com.

How big is the Mega-Sena jackpot?

The amazing Mega-Sena lottery game is the most popular lotto game in Brazil and has been available to players for over twenty-five years. The Mega-Sena draw has been held in the Brazilian capital city Brasilia since 1996 and it has produced many winners whose lives were changed forever.

The various other Mega-Sena prize tiers can also payout attractive cash prizes even if you didn’t win the actual jackpot and has been improved over the years by the Brazil’s biggest government owned bank the Caixa Economica Federal Bank who control and run the Mega-Sena lottery.

How the pot of the Mega-Sena draw is divided up:

• 35% will go to players who matched six numbers and if nobody matches all six numbers, it will accumulate for the next draw.
• 19% will go to players who scored five numbers.
• 19% will go to players who scored four numbers.
• 22% will accumulate for a special drawing occurring once every five times.
• 5% will accumulate for the Mega da Virada special New Year draw.

The remaining 54% of lottery income is spent on costs and then redistributed to various social programmes.

A special draw called ‘Mega da Virada’ is held on New Year’s Eve every year. This draw is extremely popular among Brazilians because of its huge jackpot. The regular Mega-Sena draws throughout the year puts 5% of the proceeds to one side for the Mega da Virada draw.

The record Mega da Virada jackpot is the $306.7 million jackpot from the 2018 New Year draw. Unlike a regular draw, the Mega da Virada jackpot doesn’t accumulate even if nobody scores six numbers. It instead goes to people who scored five numbers.

The biggest Mega-Sena draw jackpot on record was worth R$263.2 million and it was split between four winning players on Wednesday the 31st of December 2014. The biggest Mega-Sena jackpot prize won by a single ticket holder was scooped on Wednesday the 25th of November 2015 and was worth R$205.3 million.

Is there a jackpot cap with the Mega-Sena lottery?

The Mega-Sena draw does not have a jackpot cap and will roll over to the next Mega-Sena draw until a player finally matches the Mega-Sena lottery winning numbers. Really huge jackpots can be had if it keeps rolling over as a result of having no jackpot cap. Further information about the Mega-Sena jackpot prizes and other information can be seen on the PlayUSALotteries.com Mega-Sena draw play page.

When is the Mega-Sena draw?

The Mega-Sena draw takes place in the Brazilian capital city of Brasilia thrice a week on a Tuesday, Thursday, and on a Saturday at 20:00 hrs Brazilian time. You can play your chosen Mega-Sena numbers up to an hour before the draw takes place.

You can buy your Mega-Sena tickets online from PlayUSALotteries.com while you are in the comfort of your home or anywhere else in the world else as long as you have an internet connection available or access to data or Wi-Fi on your smartphone.

You can either choose your Mega-Sena numbers yourself or you can use our ‘Quick Pick’ option where your numbers are selected for you by our computerised random number generator. The Mega-Sena lottery results will be updated at PlayUSALotteries.com immediately after every Mega-Sena draw.

What my chances of winning the Mega-Sena jackpot?

When you play the Mega-Sena lottery, you need to select six numbers from a pool of sixty lotto balls.

There are three different prize tiers with the Mega-Sena lottery, one tier for players who match all six Mega-Sena numbers, one tier for those who match five Mega-Sena numbers and one tier for those who match four Mega-Sena numbers.

The chance of a player winning any Mega-Sena lottery prize is 2,298 to 1 and the chances of a player winning the Mega-Sena jackpot is 550,063,860 to 1.

The Mega-Sena numbers that are drawn most often are 4, 5, 10, 23, 33 & 53

The chances of winning a Mega-Sena lottery prize are listed in the table below:

How does the Mega-Sena lottery payout?

When you win the Mega-Sena lottery, you have one (1) payout choice: the lump-sum payout option.

If you choose this payout option, your windfall will be paid out immediately.

PlayUSALotteries.com reserves the right to pay the winning Mega-Sena jackpot total as an annuity payout in exceptional circumstances.

What happens if I win the Brazilian Mega-Sena lottery?

If you should match the Mega-Sena lottery winning numbers that have been drawn, straight after the Mega-Sena lottery results have been published, we will credit your PlayUSALotteries.com account immediately.

For players that have bigger lotto wins, we recommend you seek professional financial advice to help you manage your winnings in accordance with your local legislation for claiming international lottery prizes.

At PlayUSALotteries.com, if you should win the Mega-Sena lottery jackpot, we guarantee you anonymity and privacy which means that we will never disclose any of your personal information or identity unless we have your permission.

How long do I have to wait to claim my Mega-Sena prize?

Any winnings credited to your PlayUSALotteries.com account will stay there until you want to withdraw them. You can either withdraw your funds in smaller amounts or take all of your money in one lump sum.

We suggest that you buy a lottery ticket at least once every six months to avoid your account becoming inactive and your balance expiring.

Mega-Sena lottery FAQ’s

Do I need to match the Mega-Sena lotto winning numbers in the same order they were drawn?

It is not necessary to match the Mega-Sena winning numbers in the same order they were drawn because the winning Mega-Sena numbers are drawn randomly and are only put in numerical order for your convenience after the Mega-Sena draw.

How many numbers are used in the Mega-Sena lottery?

There is a pool of sixty numbers in the Mega-Sena draw and they use a single rotating cage where the required six numbers are picked from.

Historical changes to the Mega-Sena lottery

After the Mega-Sena lottery was first launched, they used two separate spinning spherical cages to pick the balls from and to create a double digit number by alternating the balls taken out one at a time from each cage.

In the first cage the balls were numbered 0 to 5, and the second cage had balls numbered 0 to 9. After the Mega-Sena numbers from each cage were combined, they formed a number that ranged from 01 to 60. If the number 00 was ever drawn, it was replaced by the number 60. This was repeated until the final Mega-Sena draw numbers were made up of six different double digit combinations.

The Mega-Sena draw was upgraded after the 1140th draw where the balls were thereafter drawn from a single rotating cage where each section of the ten balls is coloured differently from the rest, with a total of six colours across all of the balls.

Interesting facts about the Mega-Sena lottery

Each Mega-Sena draw takes place inside a special Mega-Sena lottery truck that drives the length and breadth of Brazil so that each draw happens in a different location.

The Mega-Sena lottery has created over a million winners as well as their many investments to promote Brazilian culture, social activities and education.

The Brazilians are nearly as passionate about Mega-Sena as they are about football (soccer) which is saying a lot considering the Brazilian football team have won the World Cup a record fifteen times.