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The biggest lottery win in every state

  • The biggest lottery jackpot ever won, a huge prize of $2.04 billion, was in California in 2022.
  • A New Jersey man won $533 million in 2018 while playing the Mega Millions for the second time ever.

A California man just won $1.765 billion in the second-largest Powerball drawing ever, but he's not even the most successful jackpot winner from his own state.

In November 2022, another California resident won the biggest US lottery prize of all time — his lucky ticket earned him a whopping $2.04 billion.

But other states have also seen residents win life-changing sums of cash.

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.

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