Mega da Virada: what 17 editions show

The Mega da Virada is the Mega-Sena draw held at the turn of the year in Brazil. The first one under the no-rollover rule was draw 1140, on 31 December 2009. The most recent was draw 2955, which Caixa records as held on 1 January 2026. That makes 17 editions, and I gathered the official prize data for all of them: how many tickets matched all six numbers, how much each received and how much the draw took in.

Edition	Draw	Numbers	Six-match tickets	Prize per ticket	Ticket sales
2009	1140	10-27-40-46-49-58	2	R$ 72,450,747	R$ 435.3 million
2010	1245	02-10-34-37-43-50	4	R$ 48,598,800	R$ 472.5 million
2011	1350	03-04-29-36-45-55	5	R$ 35,523,498	R$ 549.3 million
2012	1455	14-32-33-36-41-52	3	R$ 81,594,700	R$ 640.5 million
2013	1560	20-30-36-38-47-53	4	R$ 56,169,465	R$ 758.2 million
2014	1665	01-05-11-16-20-56	4	R$ 65,823,888	R$ 871.3 million
2015	1775	02-18-31-42-51-56	6	R$ 41,088,919	R$ 620.3 million
2016	1890	05-11-22-24-51-53	6	R$ 36,824,758	R$ 735.9 million
2017	2000	03-06-10-17-34-37	17	R$ 18,042,279	R$ 890.9 million
2018	2110	05-10-12-18-25-33	52	R$ 5,818,007	R$ 886.0 million
2019	2220	03-35-38-40-57-58	4	R$ 76,053,460	R$ 1.03 billion
2020	2330	17-20-22-35-41-42	2	R$ 162,625,108	R$ 1.18 billion
2021	2440	12-15-23-32-33-46	2	R$ 189,062,364	R$ 1.51 billion
2022	2550	04-05-10-34-58-59	5	R$ 108,393,993	R$ 1.96 billion
2023	2670	21-24-33-41-48-56	5	R$ 117,778,204	R$ 2.43 billion
2024	2810	01-17-19-29-50-57	8	R$ 79,435,771	R$ 2.49 billion
2025	2955	09-13-21-32-33-59	6	R$ 181,892,881	R$ 3.05 billion

Prizes are rounded to the real. The exact figures are on each draw's page, reachable from the Mega-Sena page.

No edition went without a winner

The Mega da Virada does not roll over: if nobody matches all six numbers, the prize goes to the five-match winners. In 17 editions that was never needed. The minimum was 2 winning tickets, in 2009, 2020 and 2021, and the median was 5.

The reason is volume. Draw 2954, on 20 December 2025, the last regular Mega-Sena draw before the Virada, took in R$ 66.4 million. The Virada took in R$ 3.05 billion, 46 times more. With that much money staked, a huge share of the 50,063,860 possible combinations is covered, and somebody almost always holds the winning one.

For the individual player, though, none of this changes the arithmetic. A single ticket in the Virada has the same chance as a single ticket in any other draw: 1 in 50,063,860. What changes is that the prize does not roll over and will almost certainly be shared.

2018, the year 52 tickets split the prize

In 2018 the six-match tier paid R$ 302.5 million in total, practically the same as in 2019 (R$ 304.2 million). In 2019 four tickets split the money and each took R$ 76 million. In 2018 there were 52, and each took R$ 5.8 million, the smallest individual prize in the series.

The difference lies in how many people chose that combination, and 2018's was very "playable": 05, 10, 12, 18, 25 and 33, all below 34 and five of them within the range of days in a month. Low numbers show up more on tickets because many people play birthdays. The data does not turn that into a rule, though. In 2014 the numbers were 01, 05, 11, 16, 20 and 56, also with five date numbers, and there were only 4 winners. It is fair to say that combinations resembling the most common picks carry more risk of a shared prize; it is not possible to predict how many people will hold exactly the same ticket.

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The prize grew sevenfold

Ticket sales went from R$ 435.3 million in 2009 to R$ 3.05 billion in 2025, seven times more. The total paid in the six-match tier kept pace: from R$ 144.9 million to R$ 1.09 billion. Adding up the 17 editions, the Virada's top tier paid R$ 6.19 billion to 135 tickets.

The prize per ticket, on the other hand, did not grow along the same line, because it depends on the number of winners. The largest in the series is from 2021, R$ 189.1 million for each of 2 tickets; 2025, with the largest total prize of all, came to R$ 181.9 million because there were 6. The median of the 17 editions is R$ 72.5 million, which happens to be the 2009 figure.

The lower tiers feel the volume too. In 2025, 308,315 tickets matched four numbers and each received R$ 216.76, the smallest four-match prize in the series. In 2023 there had been 164,379, and the tier paid R$ 1,215.71.

Where the money comes from

Part of the prize of every regular Mega-Sena draw goes into a reserve for the Virada, which Caixa publishes with each result. At draw 2900, on 12 August 2025, it stood at R$ 81.9 million. At draw 2954, on 20 December, it had reached R$ 249.3 million. Added to what the Virada itself takes in, that reserve explains why the estimated prize reaches figures no regular draw comes close to: for the 2025 edition Caixa announced an estimate of R$ 1 billion, and the six-match tier paid R$ 1.09 billion.

Before playing

If the plan is to play as a group, How to run a lottery pool without wasting money shows how to avoid repeated games within the same pool, and A pool at the lottery counter or on your own compares the two ways of organising one. Winners in any tier have 90 days to claim, and the details are in You hit: what to do before the 90 days run out.

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