In specific states, prizes have been won hundreds of times — occasionally more than a dozen times since both lottery draw games commenced in the 1990s.
Mississippi, North Dakota, and Wyoming are the three states that have never sold a winning ticket for either game. All except for five states take part in Powerball and Mega Millions.
In the history of the United States, the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever recorded is the fourth-largest lottery jackpot. This particular jackpot, which reached a staggering $1.348 billion, held the title until January of this year. Additionally, Maine was included in the list of states that had winners.
Only the state of Maine hasn’t sold a winning Powerball ticket. The history of the game’s jackpot goes back to 2003, and there are also four other states that have had at least one Powerball jackpot since then: the District of Columbia, Vermont, Montana, and Arkansas.
According to records from Mega Millions, since 2002, the states that have yet to win the ticket-winning jackpot are District of Columbia, Wyoming, West Virginia, Vermont, South Dakota, Oregon, Oklahoma, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Delaware, Connecticut, and Colorado.
Eight states have sold only one Mega Millions jackpot ticket: Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
In Queens, a ticket purchased emerged as the winner of a staggering $483 million Mega Millions jackpot just four days prior to another ticket selling for a $20 million Mega Millions prize in Syracuse on April 18. New York State has been a fortunate ground for lottery winners since the early 2000s, boasting a total of 54 grand prize winners, with an impressive 42 of them being Mega Millions jackpot victories, surpassing every other state. The state of New York has also witnessed a greater number of jackpot-winning tickets sold in both Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries.
After New York, California and New Jersey are the subsequent states, with each having achieved 47 and 38 major wins in both games, respectively.
Pennsylvania has witnessed the most seen Powerball jackpot tickets, with an estimated worth of $206.8 million, making it the recent most in August 3, 2022. Although it’s home to the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. History, worth $2.04 billion, Powerball tickets with the grand prize-winning have only been sold in California, New York, and Indiana, tying for the third-most.
The interactive map underneath displays the quantity of jackpot-winning Powerball tickets sold by each state, as of mid-July 2023.
Each state’s cumulative total includes those jackpots that were split by multiple tickets sold in different states, it is important to note.
Although Pennsylvania boasts the highest count of Powerball jackpot victors, it possesses one of the smallest quantities of Mega Millions jackpots, totaling merely three.
New York has documented the highest number, with its previously mentioned 42 jackpots. California comes in second place with 35, and New Jersey secured the third position with 27. It is.
This interactive map displays the quantity of Mega Millions jackpot-winning tickets sold in every state as of mid-July 2023.
Just like the Powerball chart mentioned before, the total amount of jackpots in each state comprises of the rewards distributed among tickets sold in different states.
The Powerball jackpot was won in April. There were four of them, two in April and four in January. So far this year, there have been nine jackpots, six of which were grand prizes like the Mega Millions.
In the history of the United States, it would be the third-largest sum of money won in a lottery if it remains at that figure. Officials announced on Tuesday that with no one winning in Monday’s drawing, the Powerball grand prize has now reached an estimated $1 billion. Both games are currently generating prizes that are breaking records.