This week has seen big lottery jackpots in the United States — and one win is for the record books. Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot in Tuesday night's drawing, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December. But the individual prizes have been larger still. The largest overall jackpot was a Powerball drawing, worth $2.04 billion, and it went to a single ticket in California in November 2022. The largest Mega Millions drawing was worth $1.602 billion if paid out in installments, and it also went to a single ticketholder, in Florida.
