- The biggest lottery jackpot ever won, a huge prize of $2.04 billion, was in California in 2022.
- A New Jersey winner just set a Mega Millions jackpot record: an estimated $1.13 billion.
- In 2019, a North Carolina man won $344 million after using numbers from a fortune cookie.
A Mega Millions lottery ticket winner in New Jersey just set a record for the biggest jackpot in the state and what could be the fifth-largest jackpot in the history of Mega Millions.
Still, the estimated $1.13 billion win isn’t the biggest lottery prize of all time.
In November 2022, a California resident won the biggest lottery prize in US history — his lucky ticket earned him a whopping $2.04 billion.
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Jackpocket recently 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, like Alabama, Alaska, and Hawaii, have no state lotteries, and so were not included in the list.
Here’s the biggest lottery win in every state.
