Mega Millions set the world jackpot record on 30 March 2012 when it awarded a US$656 million prize to three lucky winners from Maryland, Kansas, and Illinois. Three colleagues from Maryland’s public education system pooled their money in the draw and purchased tickets as the 'Three Amigos'. The three won a third of this record Mega Millions prize; each of them became a
lottery syndicate winner ! This huge Mega Millions jackpot would remain the largest jackpot prize ever until Powerball’s epic draw in January 2016 with its US$1.586 billion jackpot.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot of all time was the US$1.602 billion prize that went to Saltines Holdings LLC from Neptune Beach, Florida on 8 August 2023 after 32 rollovers .
An exciting jackpot worth US$1.537 billion prize won by a single ticket purchased in South Carolina for the draw on 23 October 2018. That jackpot fell just short of breaking Powerball’s hold on the world record.
US Mega Millions celebrated the new year with some spectacular lottery fireworks – with its jackpot reaching a massive US$1.348 billion before being won by a single ticket purchased in Maine. The extraordinarily lucky winner correctly guessed all the regular numbers 30, 43, 45, 46, and 61, as well as the Mega Ball 14, to score the second-biggest prize among the
biggest Mega Millions jackpots in this drawing's history!
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