The biggest lottery win in every state

Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . The biggest lottery jackpot ever won, a prize of $2.04 billion, was in California in 2022. A New Jersey winner set a Mega Millions jackpot record last year: an estimated $1.13 billion. The latest Powerball jackpot is now up to $1.6 billion. The $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot - which is up for grabs in Monday night's drawing - is one of the largest lottery prizes in US history. The sum, which grew after there was no winning ticket on Saturday night, marks the end of a big year for lottery jackpots. In September, two tickets, sold in Texas and Missouri, split a $1.8 billion Powerball prize, the second-largest in US history. That came just weeks after a Virginia resident claimed the state's largest-ever lottery jackpot, a whopping $348 million. Still, even these eye-watering sums don't come close to the largest lottery payout of all time. That came in November 2022, when a California resident won the biggest lottery prize in US history: $2.04 billion. Factors such as rising interest rates, updated game rules (including lower odds), and higher-priced tickets have contributed to the recent surge in billion-dollar jackpots . Jackpocket compiled a list of the biggest prizes won on a single lottery ticket in each state, with prizes ranging from the low millions to billion-dollar jackpots. Some states, such as Alabama, Alaska, and Hawaii, do not have state lotteries and were therefore not included in the list. Here's the biggest lottery win in every state. ARIZONA: $410 million The couple who won the grand prize were from Glendale but chose to remain anonymous, a local NBC News station reported at the time, in June 2020. The winning lottery ticket was also the first Mega Millions winning ticket in the state's history, KTAR News reported. ARKANSAS: $177 million The winning Mega Millions was sold in 2017 in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and worth a whopping $177 million, or a cash value of about $107 million before taxes. CALIFORNIA: $2.04 billion A Powerball winner in California claimed the largest lottery win in US history in November 2022. The winning ticket was sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, about 15 miles outside downtown Los Angeles, NBC News reported at the time. The winner was identified as Edwin Castro, who opted for a lump sum of $997.6 million, USA Today reported. Castro, who was reportedly living in a one-bedroom home at the time of his win, went on to buy two multimillion-dollar properties shortly after collecting his prize. NBC News also reported that the owner of the gas station and convenience store, Joseph Chahayed (pictured with his sons), was presented with a $1 million check for selling the ticket. COLORADO: $133 million The ticket was purchased by 67-year-old Judy Finchum in September 2017. ABC News reported he had been playing the exact same lottery numbers for 30 years until she finally won the $133.2 million Powerball jackpot on her dog Tillie's birthday. CONNECTICUT: $254.2...

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