Notable Prizes
| Prize
(local currency) |
Lottery | Country | Winner | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $590.5m | Powerball | United States | One ticket from Florida | 18 may 2013 | Largest sole winner, 84 year old Gloria C. MacKenzie, collect lump sum of $371m |
| $390m | Mega Millions | United States | One ticket each from New Jersey and Georgia | 6 March 2007 | World's largest annuitized jackpot |
| $380m | Mega Millions | United States | One ticket each from Idaho and Washington | 4 January 2011 | |
| $365m | Powerball | United States | One ticket bought by eight co-workers from a Nebraska meat-processing plant | 18 February 2006 | World's biggest prize from one ticket |
| $363m | The Big Game | United States | Two winning tickets: Larry and Nancy Ross (Michigan), Joe and Sue Kainz (Illinois) | 9 May 2000 | The Big Game is now known as Mega Millions |
| $340m | Powerball | United States | One ticket (Medford, Oregon) | 19 October 2005 | Largest prize to one person/family |
| $319m | Mega Millions | United States | Largest Mega Millions win from a New York-bought ticket | 25 March 2011 | Won by employees of same IT firm who shared 1 ticket ($19m each after tax). |
| $315m | Mega Millions | United States | Largest Mega Millions prize on one ticket (California) | 15 November 2005 | |
| $314.9m | Powerball | United States | Andrew Jackson “Jack” Whittaker, Jr. | 25 December 2002 | Second-largest prize to one person |
| €183.5m cash | EuroMillions | France ×2, Portugal ×1 |
Three tickets | 3 February 2006 | Europe's largest jackpot |
| €177.7m cash | SuperEnalotto | Italy | One ticket, shared by 70 players | 30 October 2010 | |
| €147.8m cash | SuperEnalotto | Italy | One ticket, Bagnone, Toscana | 22 August 2009 | Europe's biggest winning ticket |
| €129.8m | EuroMillions cash | United Kingdom | Anonymous UK resident | 8 October 2010 | Biggest EuroMillions win |
| €126.2m | EuroMillions | Spain | Anonymous 25 year-old woman from Mallorca | 8 May 2009 | Largest single winner in EuroMillions. |
| €115.4m | EuroMillions | Ireland | Dolores McNamara | 29 July 2005 | Biggest single winner and jackpot (Ireland) |
| €100m | EuroMillions | Belgium | One anonymous ticket holder. Ticket sold in Tienen. | 9 February 2007 | Biggest single winner and jackpot (Belgium) |
| €100m | EuroMillions | France | One ticket holder but shared by a syndicate of 15 players. Ticket sold in Venelles (Bouches-du-Rhône). | 18 September 2009 | Biggest win and jackpot (France) |
| £84.4m | EuroMillions | United Kingdom | Anonymous | 14 May 2010 | UK's biggest lottery jackpot |
| £56m | EuroMillions | United Kingdom | Nigel Page and Justine Laycock from Cirencester. The total jackpot of £112m was shared with a winner in Spain. | 12 February 2010 | |
| £42m | National Lottery | United Kingdom | Three ticket holders | 6 January 1996 | |
| €37.6m | National Lottery | Germany | Won by a nurse from North Rhine-Westphalia | 7 October 2006 | Largest German prize and single winner |
| €25m | State Lottery | Netherlands | Ticket sold in The Hague | 10 July 2008 | Tax free lump sum |
| ₱741.1m | Grand Lotto 6/55 | Philippines | One ticket holder from Olongapo City | 29 November 2010 | Asia's largest prize (€13m) |
| R$145m | Mega-Sena | Brazil | Won by one ticket holder from Brasília (Federal District) and one from Santa Rita do Passa Quatro (São Paulo) | 31 December 2009 | South America's largest prize |
| A$106m | OZ lotto | Australia | Two winners | 30 June 2009 | Australia's highest lottery prize |
On 20 September 2005 a primary school boy in Italy won the equivalent of £27.6 million in the Italian national lottery. Although children are not allowed to gamble under Italian law, children are allowed to play the lottery.
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