One good reason to seek your fortune through the acquisition of a Mega Millions ticket is that, over the last five years, six lottery prizes in the United States have won more than $1 billion dollars.
Lottery prizes over $1 billion
On November 7 of last year, a $2.04 billion winner emerged in California through a Powerball drawing.
Previously, on January 13, 2016, also through Powerball, three tickets purchased in California, Florida and Tennessee, respectively, distributed an amount of $1.586 million dollars, Powerball.
It should be noted that the other three prizes arose through Mega Millions draws.
On October 23, 2018, a $1.537 million winning ticket was detected in South Carolina.
On a smaller scale of winnings, a person from Illinois was declared the winner of the drawing on July 29, 2022, where the prize was $1.337 million dollars.
A year earlier, on January 22, it was announced that a ticket purchased in Michigan was worth $1.05 billion.
January the month of the great prizes
In this way, regardless of what happens tonight in the draw where the jackpot is $1.100 million dollars, said amount is already part of the most important awarded to the participants.
Another interesting fact is that, if a prize winner were to be defined during the month of January, it would be the fourth time that the jackpot would be defined at the start of the year.
Top 10 Mega Millions prizes
- $1,537 million dollars (10/23/2018)
- $1,337 million dollars (07/29/2022)
- $1,050 million dollars (01/22/2021)
- $1.1 billion dollars (Not yet defined)
- $656 million dollars (03/30/2012)
- $648 million dollars (12/17/2013)
- $543 million dollars (07/24/2018)
- $536 million dollars (07/06/2016)
- $533 million dollars (03/30/2018)10.$522 million dollars (06/05/2019)
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