Mega da Virada 2025: Brazil's first billion-real jackpot
Draw 2,955 paid R$1.09 billion, almost twice the previous record, after a 12-hour delay.
Mega da Virada 2025 paid out R$1,091,357,286.54, the biggest prize in Brazilian lottery history and Mega-Sena's first billion-real jackpot in more than 3,000 draws since 1996. A technical failure pushed the scheduled December 31 drawing to the morning of January 1, 2026.
Six tickets matched all six numbers and each received R$181,892,881.09. One was a basic six-number entry. A total of 3,921 five-number entries won R$11,931.42 each, while 308,315 four-number entries received R$216.76 each.
Record revenue
The draw took in more than R$3 billion, 22.6% more than the 2024 edition. In the final days of ticket sales, retailers processed up to 4,745 entries per second. A rule change also boosted the jackpot: in 2025, 90% of the total prize allocation went to six-number winners, up from 62%.
From R$144 million in 2009 to R$1.09 billion in 2025.
How Mega da Virada has evolved
| Edition | Highlight | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | First edition | R$144 million |
| 2017 | 17 tickets shared the jackpot | R$306.7 million |
| 2018 | 52 winners, a sharing record | R$302.5 million |
| 2022 | 5 winners | R$541.9 million |
| 2024 | 8 winners | R$635.5 million |
| 2025 | 6 winners, the first billion-real jackpot | R$1.09 billion |
Why Mega da Virada rarely has a single winner
Mega da Virada cannot roll over: if no ticket matches six numbers, the prize goes to five-number winners. With billions in ticket sales and millions of pool entries, splitting the jackpot is highly likely. Since 2009, the number of winning entries has ranged from 2 to 52. As a result, the biggest single-ticket Mega-Sena prize still came from a regular draw: R$289.4 million for a basic entry in draw 2,150 on May 11, 2019.
Prize claim deadline
Caixa lottery prizes expire 90 days after the drawing. Small prizes may be claimed at lottery retailers, while large prizes must be claimed at Caixa bank branches.