One lucky lottery player in California hit it big, winning the massive $1.76 billion Powerball jackpot
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Wednesday night.The winner, who has yet to be identified, broke a monthslong streak without a big payout, matching all six numbers to bag the second-largest lottery prize in history.
Wednesday’s jackpot is the latest in a string of billion-dollar prizes. Just this year, three other jackpots passed the $1 billion mark, a feat that has only happened nine times in history.
Those won this year include a Mega Millions jackpot worth $1.35 billion in January, a $1.08 billion Powerball prize in July and, most recently, a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot in Florida this August that at the time became the third-biggest lottery prize ever won.
With an estimated cash value of $774.1 million, Wednesday’s prize is dwarfed only by one.
The biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history was a Powerball prize won in California in November 2022, with a record payout worth a whopping $2.04 billion.
Here’s the complete ranking of the top 10 biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history.