The 18 Biggest Lottery Jackpot Wins of All Time
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A Powerball player won a $685 million jackpot last weekend. The largest jackpots ever played for were more than twice that amount. European jackpots are often tax-free, so the winners take home the full sum.
The SuperEnalotto jackpot of €209 million is the second highest in Europe. The winning ticket was bought for €1 at a local shop Bar Marino in Via Cavour 46, Lodi, near Milan.
The biggest lottery win in Europe is €210 million. The winner is from Switzerland. They bought two tickets online for CHF 7 each. EuroMillions is available in nine European countries.
A winning ticket in the estimated $540 million Mega Millions drawing was sold in Indiana on July 8, 2016.
A single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers drawn on July 24, 2018, with the grand prize at $543 million. It was the largest jackpot in the California lottery history until last weekend.
The winner of the Powerball jackpot of $559.7 million was in New Hampshire. She wanted to remain anonymous but the state does not permit lottery winners to claim their prizes anonymously. The case made it to the Supreme Court and she eventually claimed the full prize through a trust.
Marie Holmes from North Carolina, Andrew Weber from Texas and an anonymous player in Puerto Rico won the $564 million Powerball jackpot of February 2015.
Matt Good from Pheonix, Arizona, won the $587.5 million jackpot in November 2012. Cindy and Mark Hill of Missouri cashed in $192 million. They donated money to local causes in Camden Point.
Gloria Mackenzie from Florida became the oldest Powerball winner at 84 years old when she was the sole winner of the $590.5 million PowerBall jackpot on May 18, 2013. She split the winnings with her son, Scott, who helped her buy the winning ticket. Six years later she filed a lawsuit alleging that Scott and his financial advisor mismanaged her winings, costing her about $10 million.
The biggest lottery jackpot of all time is $648 million. Two winning Mega Millions tickets were bought in California and Georgia.
The largest jackpot in any lottery game to date was $656 million (Mega Millions) on March 30, 2012.
The $685 million Powerball jackpot was the eighth largest advertised jack pot ever won. The winning ticket was sold at the Albertsons on 730 Quintana Road, Morro Bay, California.
7. $687.8m (Powerball). Two ticket-holders from New York and Iowa received equal share of the jackpot amounting to $343.9m.
A single ticket from Maryland scooped $731.1 million, the first jackpot of 2021, on January 20. This jack pot entered the Hall of Fame of Powerball's largest jackpots.
$758.7 million was the third largest jackpot of a jack Pot in Powerball history. Mavis Wanczyk, 53, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, took home a cash lump sum of $480.5 million.
Manuel Franco from Wisconsin, is the biggest Powerball winner of all time. He is also one of the youngest Powerballs winners.
The $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot is the third-largest prize won in the United States. It was only the second time the game surpassed the $1000 billion threshold. The Wolverine FLL Club chose to receive it as a one-time lump sum payment of about $776 million.
The Mega Millions jackpot reached $1.537 billion on October 23, 2018. It is the second time that a lottery prize passed the billion dollar mark.
The Powerball jackpot was $1.586 billion in January 2016. It was the first time a lottery prize passed the $1000 billion threshold. The jackpots were split between three winning tickets in California, Florida and Tennessee. John and Lisa Robinson of Tennessee were the the only PowerBall winners to come forward. Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt from Melbourne Beach, FL set up a trust called the Nickel 95 Trust to manage their finances. Mae and Marvin Acosta from Chino Hills, California want to donate most of the money to a Trust and to charities.
