Discover The 20th Largest Lottery Jackpot Ever: $579 Million Prize

SHREVEPORT, LA – No big winner in the monster Mega Millions prize from Tuesday night. The jackpot topped the $540 million dollar mark and it keeps growing. The jackpot is now worth a whopping $579 million. This prize lands at #20 on the largest lottery jackpots of all time. It’s the 9^th largest Mega Millions prize.

There were 3 Match 5 winners. Two of those lucky winners are in Ohio and one is in Wisconsin.

Lots of folks have big dreams of crazy Christmas spending if they win the big Mega Millions jackpot. The big question for many is whether or not you would keep working.

Would you stay on your job if you won millions and millions of dollars? I would love to keep doing my job, but that alarm at 3:30 each morning is the one thing I just don’t thing I would want to continue hearing.

Here’s a list of the top 20 prizes from Powerball and Mega Millions:

$2.04 billion, Powerball was won by one ticket in California on November 8, 2022.
$1.765 billion Powerball won by one winning ticket in California on October 11, 2023.
$1.602 Mega Millions August 8, 2023 won by one ticket in Florida.
$1.586 billion Powerball January 13, 2016. There were 3 winning tickets for this prize. These tickets were purchased in Tennessee, Florida, and California. Each had the option to take a lump sum of $327.8 million.
$1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
$1.348 billion Mega Millions won by one ticket on January 13, 2023. That ticket was sold in Maine.
$1.337 billion Mega Millions was won by one ticket in Illinois on July 29, 2022.
$1.13 billion Mega Millions was won by a single ticket in New Jersey on March 26, 2024.
$1.08 Billion Powerball was won by one ticket in California on July 19, 2023.
$1.05 billion Mega Millions was won by the Wolverine FLL Club of Oakland County, Michigan in January of 2021.
$800 million, Mega Millions won by a ticket in Sugar Land, Texas on September 10, 2024. $404 million dollar lump sum.
$768.4 million, Powerball won by a single ticket in Wisconsin. Cash: $477 million.
$758 million, Powerball won August 24, 2018, by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts. She chose the lump sum payment of $480 million.
$699 million, Powerball won on October 4, 2021 in California. The ticket was sold at an Albertson’s grocery store.
$687.8 million, Powerball won Oct. 27, 2018. There were two winning tickets. One in Iowa and another in New York.
$648 million, Mega Millions, won Dec. 17, 2013, in Georgia and California. Cash: $347.6 million.
$630 Million Powerball Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Two winning tickets, one in California and one in Wisconsin will split the jackpot.
$590.5 million, Powerball, won May 18, 2013, in Florida. Cash: $370.9 million.
$587.5 million, Powerball, won Nov. 28, 2012, by two tickets, sold in Missouri and Arizona. Cash: $384.7 million
$579 million Mega Millions is up for grabs on Friday December 6, 2024. The one-time payout is $276 million.