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The biggest lottery winnings in the world. The largest lottery winnings in Russia: list, features and interesting facts

The lottery is one of the most popular gambling games in which it is possible to win a large sum of money and expensive material prizes. The conduct of lotteries in Russia is regulated at the legislative level, so participants can count on the honesty of accredited organizers.

Below you will find tips on choosing the type of lottery, ways to increase your chances of winning, a list of popular Russian lotteries, as well as a rating of the biggest winnings.

Which type of lottery is better to choose?

Lotteries may differ in how they are conducted. Based on this feature, there are two types:

  1. Draw lottery- the prize fund is drawn between all participants, and the game is played at a time after the sale of lottery tickets for certain date and time. According to Russian legislation, during the drawing, only one piece of equipment is allowed to be used to determine the winning combination of numbers or symbols - in order to avoid fraud.
  2. No-draw lottery(instant) - information for determining winnings is included in tickets at the time of their creation. You can find out the result immediately after purchasing a game card by erasing the protective coating under which the hidden symbols are located. Their combination determines the absence or presence of winnings, as well as its size.

When choosing a type, you should consider some features:

  • In lotteries, the prize pool is often larger. As a rule, the participant has the opportunity to independently choose the combination that, in his opinion, will be winning. In this case, you will have to wait for the drawing to take place.
  • In non-draw lotteries, the winnings are smaller, but, according to statistics, people win them more often. Another advantage is that the result can be found out instantly.

Which lottery is the fairest in Russia?

According to the law, only state lotteries are legal on the territory of Russia - their implementation is regulated by a decision of the Government. Participants can rely on the fairness of the lotteries presented below.

Gosloto 6 out of 45

“Gosloto 6 out of 45” is a popular lottery in which you can actually win a big cash prize. Draws are held daily at 11:00 and 23:00 Moscow time.

On the ticket, the participant must mark at least 6 numbers in the range from 1 to 45. The minimum cost of a game card is 100 rubles (6 selected numbers, one combination). Participants can place “multi-bet” to increase their chance of winning. For example, a card with 13 numbers marked on it will be a winner with 1716 possible combinations. However, in this case, the ticket will cost 171,600 rubles.

All participants who guessed 2 numbers receive 100 rubles. The remaining prize fund is distributed in percentage between those who have the same:

  • 3 numbers - 18%;
  • 4 - 8%;
  • 5 - 16%;
  • 6 - 58%.

A super prize is awarded for 6 numbers guessed. His minimum size in “Gosloto 6 out of 45” - 10 million rubles.

Housing lottery

In the Housing Lottery, in addition to cash prizes, apartments and country houses are raffled off. Ticket price is 100 rubles. The super prize accumulates from circulation to circulation, its minimum size is 3 million.

Bingo-75

“Bingo-75” is a lottery where each ticket gives three chances to win, which could be a multimillion-dollar jackpot. Draws take place weekly on Sundays at 1:30 p.m.

Combinations in tickets, the cost of which is 100 rubles, are formed automatically - the participant does not choose anything. The card contains 24 numbers, the range is 1-75. The circulation consists of 72 moves and several rounds. To receive the minimum winnings (300 rubles) and participate in the further drawing of cash prizes, you need to match the 4 numbers located in the corners of the game card on the ticket before the 28th move.

The minimum super prize is 10 million. The jackpot goes to the participant whose all numbers in the playing field match those drawn in the drawing up to and including the 46th move. For a win from 47 to 55 moves you get 50,000 rubles, from 56 to 72 - 100 rubles.

Russian lotto

“Russian Lotto” is one of the most popular and fair lotteries in Russia, which has been running since 1994. The scheme is similar to “ Housing lottery» - the range of numbers on game cards is from 1 to 90 (two fields, combinations are generated automatically by the system).

The most big wins The winners of the first rounds of the Russian Lotto receive - from several tens of thousands to several million rubles. In addition, apartments, cars, vouchers and other material prizes are regularly drawn in the lottery.

Draws are broadcast on Sundays at 14:00 on the NTV channel. Ticket price is 100 rubles. The minimum jackpot amount is not set - it constantly changes and accumulates from draw to draw.

You can win this fair lottery without guessing a single number. Draws take place every 15 minutes, so KENO-Sportloto is suitable for those who do not want to wait a long time for the draw. Ticket price is 50 rubles.

The participant needs to choose 1-10 numbers in the range from 1 to 80. The lottery has 42 winning categories with a fixed reward amount. In 4 cases you can get 50 rubles without guessing a single number.


Also, in a separate KENO-Sportloto round, a super prize (from 10 million rubles) is drawn according to the participant’s ticket number.

How to increase your chances of winning?

There is no technique that is guaranteed to lead to winning the lottery, since the draw is always based on chance. However, you can use tips from experienced players to increase your chance of winning:

  • one of the most popular winning strategies is to constantly bet on the same combination;
  • the most obvious and effective advice: more tickets - more probability, the main thing is not to go beyond your budget;
  • It is not recommended to choose numbers that appear sequentially - the probability of such combinations appearing is extremely low;
  • It’s better to choose one lottery and regularly participate in it than to try to win several at once;
  • you should not mark only even numbers or only odd numbers on the ticket;
  • According to statistics, the sum of the numbers of winning combinations in most cases falls in the range of 104-176.

Let's sum it up

Russian players can fully trust state lotteries. The biggest prize funds are played in lotteries. To increase your chances of winning, it is recommended to stick to one strategy (for example, constantly bet on the same combination). IN last years The largest winnings were received several times by the winners of Gosloto 6 out of 45.

Everyone dreams of winning the lottery, but unfortunately, the likelihood of this happening is negligible. However, there are people who, in the most incredible way, still managed to win large jackpots.
There are 10 in front of you unusual stories about ordinary people who were lucky enough to win the lottery.

Christopher Kaelin

In April 2014, Christopher Kaelin from Chicago purchased a lottery ticket and, to his surprise, won $25,000. Kelin, who claims to play the lottery occasionally, decided to celebrate the occasion at a restaurant with his fiancée. After dinner, he stopped at a gas station and bought another lottery ticket. He rubbed off the protective coating and discovered that he had won again. This time the amount was $1,000.
A few days later, Kelin went to the store where he purchased his first winning lottery ticket and decided to try his luck again. He came to work, wiped off the protective coating and, to his surprise, again won $25,000. When Kelin came to cash out his lottery ticket, he realized that he had made a mistake and in fact should receive not 25,000, but 250,000 dollars.
In total, the three lottery tickets that Kaelin bought within one week brought him $276,000.

Derek Ladner

On July 11, 2007, Derek Ladner and his wife Dawn (Cornwall, England) were delighted to learn that they were one of five lucky winners to win a £2.4 million jackpot. The next week, Derek bought another lottery ticket, but it didn’t bring any winnings. When the man took out his wallet, he noticed another lottery ticket with the date July 11 in it.
It turns out that Derek forgot that he had already purchased a lottery ticket for the drawing that took place on July 11, and bought another one with the same numbers. Surprisingly, the couple actually held two of the five winning tickets, which netted them £958,284.

Walid Aborumi

For the first time, luck smiled on Walid Aboromi in 2004, when he won 500 thousand dollars in the lottery. The following year he hit the $1 million jackpot. A year later, he won $71,000 on the Virginia Pick 3 lottery using his lucky numbers. In 2007, luck brought him another 100 thousand dollars.
In May 2015, on the way to the Aborumi store, the numbers 7, 1 and 5 began to often catch my eye. It was 7:15 on the clock. The car parked in the lot had the license plate 7-1-5. Moreover, Aborumi considered these numbers to be special, since he was born on July 15 (7th month). The man took this as a sign and bought 184 lottery tickets with these three numbers.
He didn't hit the jackpot, but each lottery ticket brought him $500. In total, Aborumi won $92,000.
However, at the very last moment luck turned away from him. Somehow Aborumi managed to lose all his lottery tickets; he had a receipt confirming their purchase, but without them he had no right to claim payment. The man never found his winning lottery tickets. He suggests that they were accidentally thrown away and have long since burned in a landfill.

Unnamed man from Glendale

In April 2012, a man who preferred to remain anonymous purchased six lottery tickets with the numbers 4, 25, 29, 34 and 43. The man did not hit the jackpot, but he was lucky enough to win about one million dollars (approximately more than 166 thousand per each lottery ticket).
He cashed in the lottery tickets within seven days and spent all the funds received during the same time. How it was possible to spend such a huge amount of money in a week, we don’t know.

Mary Woollens

In September 2006, eighty-six-year-old Mary Woollens from Ontario, Canada, had a dream about several numbers. Waking up in the morning, she immediately wrote them down on a piece of paper so as not to forget. Woollens then decided to buy a lottery ticket and cross out those numbers. The next day she purchased another lottery ticket with the same numbers.
As you probably already guessed, the elderly woman won an incredible amount of money. Each lottery ticket brought her $8 million.

Richard Lustig

The lottery is a game of luck and chance. However, Richard Lustig from Florida (USA) does not think so. He claims to have developed a whole system for winning the lottery; and it sounds completely crazy. However, Lustig can back up his claims. Specifically, he won the lottery seven times between 1993 and 2010. The total winnings are $1,052,205.58 (excluding taxes). The first two times, Lustig won travel packages worth $8,560.66. His biggest win was $842,152.91. He received this money in January 2002.
Lustig then wrote a book called "Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery."

Seguro Ndabene

Almost all financial planners agree that investing in lottery tickets is a bad plan. If you have a financial advisor who thinks the same way, fire him immediately and buy Richard Lustig's book. Why share your millions with someone, right?
And although even common sense suggests that the lottery is not the best best investment money, Seguro Ndabene, who lives in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada, completely disagrees. He bought hundreds of dollars worth of lottery tickets every week, and eventually his expenses paid off. In 2004, Ndabene won a million dollars in a provincial lottery. Two years later, luck brought him another 100 thousand dollars. In 2008, he was lucky to win twice: once - 50 thousand dollars, the other - a million.
In January 2009, Ndabene hit the $17 million jackpot. After that, the lottery organizers became seriously interested in him, since it was his fifth big jackpot for the last few year s. Also, a man suddenly appeared who claimed that the ticket was bought for the whole group, and Ndabene decided to take it for himself. The case reached the court. The judge who tried it said Ndabene had done nothing wrong and was the sole holder of the ticket. After this, the lottery organizers paid the man his honestly won 17 million dollars.

Joan Ginther

Joan Ginther is considered the luckiest woman in the world. She has won multimillion-dollar sums in the instant lottery four times. The first time she won $5.4 million (in 1993). Ten years later, she won two million dollars. In 2005, Joan won another three million dollars. In the spring of 2008, her luck brought her 10 million dollars.
You ask, “What are the odds of winning over $20 million in the lottery by buying just four tickets?” According to statistics, one in eighteen septillion is 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (as many as 24 zeros).
Given this, some people have speculated that Ginther, who has a PhD in statistics from Stanford University, committed fraud. The woman purchased all four winning lottery tickets in Bishop, Texas, where she grew up but had not lived for a very long time. Ginther traveled from Las Vegas to Bishop specifically to purchase lottery tickets. She has never given an interview, so no one knows why she got so lucky.

110 Powerball winners

On March 31, 2005, 110 people who entered the Powerball lottery claimed to have won either $100,000 or $500,000 by matching five of the six winning numbers. The difference was that some people also played the bonus game, which increased their winnings several times. All of them chose the numbers 22, 28, 32, 33 and 3. The lottery organizers initially thought it was a scam.
The odds of a person winning the Powerball jackpot were 1 in 2,939,677. And the fact that 110 people were winners of the lottery at once seemed incredible. But the most surprising thing was that all the people chose the same sixth number. The results of the investigation showed that all the people found the winning numbers in the fortune cookies, which were produced by the same company.

Frayn Selak

Croatian music teacher Frain Selak is one of the luckiest or unluckiest people on the planet, depending on how you interpret the story that happened to him.
In 1962, he was one of the passengers on a train that derailed into a lake. As a result of the tragedy, 17 people died. But Selak survived. The next year he was on a plane whose door opened in the sky. Selak was pulled out by a stream of air. This incident claimed the lives of 19 passengers. Selak miraculously survived landing on a haystack.
Three years later, Selak was riding a bus that was involved in an accident. Four people died. The music teacher remained unharmed. Four years later, Selak's car caught fire. The man managed to run out of it before it exploded. This happened again three years later.
In 1995, Selak was hit by a bus, but survived. A year later, he avoided a head-on collision, but had to drive his car along the edge of a cliff. Selak jumped out of the car before it hit a tree. It saved his life.
In 2003, luck finally smiled on Selak. He won one million dollars in the lottery. He gave most of the money to relatives and friends, and spent the rest on himself.

Hello, friends. Today in this article we will introduce you to popular foreign lotteries and tell you how to play them :)

Regardless of our belief or complete disbelief in luck, almost each of us has bought a lottery ticket at least once in our lives. Perhaps some of you brought coupons as an addition to the main gift to your family and friends and rejoiced with them small winnings and was hoping for big ones.

But big win in rubles is not the same as a big win in euros or dollars. Therefore, for now we will not touch domestic lottery operators, but will discuss in great detail the world lotteries that Russians can play. After all, a lot of players want to know for sure whether they can spend quite a large amount on a ticket and be sure that if you win, the prize will be received.

We will also consider foreign lotteries for the possibility of our compatriots participating in them and for their low popularity in Russia. Let's discuss the reasons for such a cool attitude.

And here’s another important thing: it’s worth considering foreign lotteries in terms of the honesty and integrity of intermediaries. After all, tickets for most of the world's lotteries cannot be purchased in our country - the player must contact a reseller. But where is the guarantee that as a result he will receive not some piece of paper, but a real ticket for a real drawing and will be able to take part in it. If you win, there is also no guarantee that the reward will find a winner.

In general, you need to keep your eyes open with foreign lotteries - a lucky chance favors attentive, focused and vigilant people. And note: I am not discouraging you from trying your luck in a foreign game, but I urge you to carefully study the conditions and be picky in choosing intermediaries.

We are sure that this question interests many visitors to our site, so we will give it a separate subheading.

Reason 1. Reluctance to attract foreign players

The first and main reason why little is known about foreign lotteries in our country is that the organizers of the lotteries themselves do not have the most ardent desire to encourage foreign citizens to participate in the lottery.

There are plenty of their own contenders for the Jackpot, and then - lottery operators are accustomed to listening to the opinion of the people, who are not always happy with the fact that funds (sometimes in especially large amounts) flow abroad.

Reason 2. Minimum information about world lotteries

Not all official sites have a Russian-language version, and if there is one, the game is described there very succinctly, if not sparingly. And some resources are blocked for free access.

However, foreign lotteries are becoming increasingly attractive to Russians due to high winnings and transparency of the drawing process. Players who have long paved the way for themselves into the world of foreign lotteries claim that that lottery world is somewhat different from ours: even third category prizes in international lotteries are much higher than in domestic ones. Some have developed own systems, allowing you to win a little, but consistently.

But the most important thing when participating in a foreign lottery is not even to place a bet, but to find a bona fide intermediary through whom you can purchase tickets for world lotteries and receive winnings. People who managed to contact official and honest intermediaries (also a kind of lottery) have only positive opinions about foreign lotteries and reviews about them.

Which lottery can you really win: Gosloto VS Foreign?

Buying a ticket and guessing the numbers is far from the only criterion necessary to win the lottery.

First of all, you should pay attention to the honesty and transparency of the organizers. Therefore, let's try to clarify which lotteries are more honest with their players: ours or foreign ones?

Should we trust our organizers?

The issue is controversial and we will not draw any specific conclusions, but we will name the reasons why one can still doubt the honesty.

Let's start with a simple video made by the REN TV channel:

Let's summarize the information from the video:

  • State lotteries are not really “state” at all. They belong to only one founder;
  • TV broadcasts are shown in recording;
  • the organizers have information about the selected combinations, which means they can dispose of it as they wish, for example, in the results they show numbers that were not chosen by anyone.

And that’s not all, there are several more reasons not to trust the government. lotto:

  • Most lotteries do not broadcast live drawings on the official website. Instead, use a "generator" random numbers", and this is a very dubious decision;
  • over the past few years, participants have received great amount complaints and even more reviews on the Internet;
  • the Stoloto website has crushed almost all popular lotteries, thus completely monopolizing itself;
  • The lack of information about the lucky winners also makes us wonder who gets the main prizes.

Actually, many of these reasons can be further commented on and tried to be justified. Here's how to look at it. For example, the same bad reviews are normal for anyone gambling, and some lotteries are held live.

But let's watch another video with the revelation:

Should you trust foreign organizers?

We don’t think it’s entirely correct to evaluate all foreign lotteries at once, since there are quite a lot of them in the world and they all have their own rules. But if you choose the most popular ones, then compared to ours, they look much more honest and transparent:

  • Most of them donate most of their proceeds to the state and charities;
  • Each of them conducts drawings only live;

Just two simple things, and immediately all suspicions and unnecessary questions disappear. Do you agree?

Foreign lotteries in Russia – how to buy?

The most common way to purchase a game ticket is to buy it online. Fortunately, now you can find many lotteries in the world online.


But if for some reason it is not possible to purchase a ticket via the Internet, you will have to use the services of intermediaries. But this method has its drawbacks:

  1. The intermediary may ask for an advance payment - and this is a clear signal not to get involved. You may not receive a valid ticket.
  2. Resellers can inflate the price, the difference per ticket is their earnings.
  3. Deception of the player is not uncommon among unscrupulous intermediaries. It is expressed in the first two ways, and what’s most offensive is that you can pay for a ticket and not receive winnings on it.

How to buy a ticket without risks?

We can recommend three ways to protect yourself from scammers when buying foreign lottery tickets:

  • go independently to the country where the drawing is taking place and buy a ticket there;
  • find a trusted intermediary and use his services or ask a good friend who is in another country to buy a ticket;
  • purchase world lotteries online on a special website.

There is no way to personally recommend a good intermediary - I don’t know any. But this does not mean that they do not exist. If you have friends experienced players to international lotteries, you can ask them. I don’t think they will see you as a competitor and begin to hide information - usually they find out about proven, bona fide resellers through good old word of mouth.

If buying tickets through intermediaries is not your method, then we can offer you a service that has been working as intermediaries for several years:

Agentlotto is the best intermediary of world lotteries

Agenlotto international service intermediary, allowing you to buy and receive a ticket for lotteries in the USA, Europe, Australia and Latin America for users from anywhere in the world.

If we talk about this resource more specifically, it provides a huge selection of lotteries - about 20 with different sizes of main, secondary and small winnings.

And this is very convenient for the player, since he can compare lottery conditions, jackpots and even the external design of each lottery. And this is important, many players choose their game visually: like the picture - buy a ticket - hit the jackpot.

By the way, about the main prizes: the site’s specialists have selected the world’s lotteries for Russian players with the largest jackpot and not the most “biting” price per bet.

The following lotteries are presented here:

  • American lotteries:
    • Superlotto Plus
    • Lotto Texas
    • New Jersey Pick-6
  • From pan-European
    • EuroJackpot
  • From Spanish:
    • La Primitiva;
    • El Gordo;
    • BonoLoto
  • From Italian:
    • SuperEnalotto
  • From the British:
    • UK Lotto.

As you can see, world lotteries without intermediaries can be purchased on one of the popular resources, although this is also a kind of intermediary, but we believe that it is much more reasonable to use the services of time-tested resources rather than strangers.

Moreover, you can buy one ticket for a lottery that you have long liked, or test your luck in several draws different countries and continents.

It works like this:

  1. Register on the site
  2. Choose the lottery you want to play
  3. Buy tickets
  4. In a few hours you will receive scanned copies in your personal account
  5. Waiting for the draw
  6. In case of victory:
    • if the amount is small: you will receive money in electronic wallets
    • if the amount is large: you receive the original ticket and go to the country where the drawing took place to collect the winnings, or you issue a power of attorney to a service employee and he receives the winnings for you and then sends it to you.

Video instruction:

Should you trust intermediaries?

Even if you don’t study these sites very carefully, what catches your eye is the column report on the winners:

Each person's name is written under the flag of the country where he lives, and the amount of winnings is indicated opposite. The people are real. Most of the lucky ones are Poles and Germans, there are even two Belarusians and a Kyrgyz. What is not proof that a foreign lottery for Russians can be successful and super successful?

Is the report not enough?

Then take an interest in reviews of resources, for example, Agentlotto began its work in 2012 and during this period it has collected more positive opinions about its activities than negative ones. The same can be said about the pioneer of such services: TheLotter, only he started working in

And the most important argument: when purchasing a ticket, the player receives a scanned copy of it and has something to show to the lottery organizers if he wins.

World lotteries in Russia - reviews. Why doesn't anyone win?

Judging by the feedback from players, not many people from Russia and the CIS countries take part in the draws of the most popular lotteries in the world. And the smaller the percentage of players, the smaller the percentage of winners - everything is logical. Therefore, you should not frighten yourself with the thought that it is impossible to win in these foreign lotteries.


Those who regularly buy tickets for foreign lotteries claim that there is a chance of winning. Our fellow citizens cannot boast of huge prizes, but small cash rewards in the amount of 20 to 600 dollars (euros) they are periodically “smiled”.

To the question why so few of our fellow citizens buy international lottery tickets, there is a completely logical answer. And not even one:

  1. Not everyone knows about the opportunity to play foreign lotteries in Russia and other post-Soviet countries
  2. Those who have heard about this possibility do not believe in the honesty of the method of purchasing lottery tickets.
  3. Those few who believe (or believed) got burned by dishonest intermediaries and stopped believing
  4. Those who haven’t been burned play it quietly and are not very willing to talk about this topic

If there is little reliable information about the lottery, then there are correspondingly few people willing to play. Here comes a completely objective explanation of why we have so few winners of foreign lotteries.

We do not insist that the Agentlotto website is an ideal place to purchase tickets for international lotteries in Russia, because the price tags there are inflated somewhere by 2 times, and somewhere by three. But on this moment– this is the best option to play without cheating.

There are other methods too, but they are suitable for people who often travel abroad:

  • buy a ticket directly in the country of the draw
  • wait for the circulation
  • receive your winnings, if they happen, directly at the lottery office

World lotteries without intermediaries - how to win the Jackpot?

There is no universal recipe for how to hit the jackpot in the lottery (no matter through intermediaries or without them). The decisive role in the game is usually assigned to faith in one’s luck. Well, it has also been noticed that those who buy tickets regularly win more often. It seems that these people are subconsciously tuned to the wave of the game and the wave of victory. Perhaps this really is true.


Foreign lotteries in Russia have not yet found their main winner. But there are a great many “true” stories with hidden names about Euromillions who hit the jackpot on the Internet. And they are all in two lines and somewhat vague.

For example, this option: “Mr. L. from Russia became a millionaire in the Euro lottery “Millions” (conditional name). One could attribute such secrecy to the reluctance of the newly minted rich man to “shine” to the whole world, but the matter is often completely different: the same unscrupulous intermediary sites are trying to attract as many buyers as possible to their resource.

For the sake of objectivity, I will give you several examples of huge winnings that brought ordinary ordinary people among the dollar multimillionaires and billionaires.

  1. American lottery Powerball. On January 16, 2016, a jackpot of $1.5 billion was won. It was divided among three players; the lucky one from California was the first to “notice” his winnings and shamelessly posted a photo with the ticket on Instagram.
  2. Mega Millions is also a lottery from the USA. In 2012, the jackpot hit $640 million. Also three winners, of which only the Butler spouses dared to reveal themselves. They acted very wisely with their portion of the winnings ($110.5 million) by hiring a financial advisor to increase their funds.
  3. Mega Millions again - 2007, $390 million up for grabs. Two main winners, one of whom, a truck driver, bought a ticket in a small establishment where he usually bought coffee on the road.

Our review of foreign lotteries

It is not difficult to navigate the rules of foreign lotteries - they are in many ways similar to ours: place a bet, wait for the draw. But if you doubt that you understand in what order to cross out the numbers, or how to pay for the purchase of a ticket, find the official website of world lotteries, perhaps you will find the necessary information there.

We tried to use the services of intermediaries as testing to find out in more detail how it all works. As a result, out of three tickets, three different lotteries we even managed to win $10 and withdraw it safely. We also made sure that a scanned copy of the purchased ticket is indeed provided to the players.

We didn't try our luck anymore.

Conclusion

It is possible to play foreign lotto from Russia through intermediary sites. It’s also possible to receive winnings – now within a few hours via electronic wallets or online banking. The ticket price is a little high, but this is our fee for the service.

Actually, this is where our article comes to an end. We hope the material was useful to you.

An article about the largest lottery winnings - about jackpots in the USA, Europe and Russia. The winners themselves and the circumstances of their winnings are described.

Information is current as of early 2013. As more significant winnings appear, we will make the necessary changes. In the first part we will talk about world records. The second part is the largest lottery winnings in Russia. Here we will tell you about the lottery winners Russian lotto, Gosloto, Sprotlotto and other Russian lotteries.

Many examples given below prove that winning a fabulous amount is certainly not easy, but it is quite possible.

First, let's look at the statistics of the largest jackpots in the world. Although the vast majority of winnings came from tickets purchased directly, the number of large winnings from bets made via the Internet is growing. For more details, see the online lottery article.

The biggest win in Europe was 185 million euros and took place on July 12, 2011. Winning ticket was purchased in Scotland. Note that this was a Euromillions ticket.

The largest jackpot in Australia on November 6, 2012 was shared by four winners. The winning amount in OZ lotto was AUD 112 million.

On December 31, 2010, luck smiled on four players in the Brazilian Mega-Sena lottery, who won 195 million reais. This is the largest win in Latin America to date.

741 million pesos- that’s exactly how much the largest one amounted to lottery jackpot in Asia. On November 29, 2010, it was drawn in the Philippine Grand Lotto 6/55 lottery.

Biggest winnings in the USA

It is known that the largest jackpots on the planet are played out in the USA. Below we present the largest winnings in the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries and other American lotteries:

A man named Juan Rodriguez, living in the USA. Having immigrated from Colombia, as of 2004 he had not been very successful in achieving the American dream. Working as a parking lot security guard, he made little money and was on the verge of financial ruin. He bought a lottery ticket with his last dollar, and this ticket brought him one hundred forty-nine million dollars to the Mega Millions lottery.

However, his story of winning the lottery remained without a happy ending. Read more.

And again megamillions. In 2006, a Virginia resident bought a lottery ticket for a challenge obtained from filling up his car. This acquisition made him richer by two hundred thirty million dollars. The gas station where the winning ticket was sold was also awarded.

On January 24, 2008, James Wilson, an eighty-four-year-old retired World War II veteran from Missouri, purchased a Powerball lottery ticket. After an hour he became richer by two hundred fifty-four million dollars. As a family man, he gave most of the money to his children.

Two hundred nine million- this is exactly the jackpot that a Massachusetts resident hit in 2004.

Andrew Jackson Whittaker, a resident of West Virginia, gained fame by winning the largest jackpot at that time in late 2002. And although Jack, as he is also called, was a wealthy man and was engaged in construction business, he was incredibly surprised by such a gift of fate.

The winnings were almost 315 million. By choosing a lump sum and paying taxes, he ended up with approximately 114 million in cash.
However, in future fate presented him with many unpleasant surprises. Read about this in the article Lucky and Unlucky.

In 2005, in Oregon, members of the same family - Bob and Francis Chaney, their daughter Caroline West and her husband Steve won about three hundred forty million dollars, becoming the owners of the second largest at that time. The couples spent a total of $40 on lottery tickets. Frances Cheney, 68, bought the tickets. After winning, she admitted that she was scared by such an incredible amount. Her husband, on the contrary, was very optimistic about the huge win. Among other things, he planned to buy a yellow Hummer.

On May 9, 200, two US residents were lucky to hit the jackpot in three hundred sixty million dollars to the Big Game lottery (this is the predecessor of mega millions - the renaming occurred in 2002). Since both winners decided to receive the entire winnings, then, minus taxes, each will receive ninety million dollars. In an interview, one of them, Larry Ross, said that he was never particularly interested in lotteries. He got the winning ticket because the hot dog seller didn't have change from a hundred dollars, and Larry had to take it with lottery tickets.

The following example shows that it is not only single people who are lucky. In Lincoln, Nebraska, eight workers at a local meatpacking plant regularly purchased Powerball tickets. In 2006, luck smiled on them. One of the biggest jackpots - three hundred sixty-five million dollars they got it. In general, playing lotteries together is a fairly common phenomenon in the world. However, there are rules here too. Please read the article lottery tips. Perhaps the information contained in it will seem banal to you, but still it will not be superfluous.

Also, if we talk about playing the lottery together, we cannot help but recall the so-called lottery syndicates. In short, a syndicate is an association of players that increases the probability of winning for each participant, but the winnings are distributed among all participants. Read more in the article lottery syndicates.

One of the biggest winnings in the mega million lottery - three hundred ninety million dollars was played on the night of March 7, 2007. It must be said that at that time it was the largest jackpot in the world, which caused a huge stir. Long queues lined up in front of sales points and terminals.

As a result, we won two tickets. One of them was purchased at a grocery store in a small town in Georgia by truck driver Ed Nighbors. The second was purchased by Helen and Harold Mesner, a resident of New Jersey.

On November 28, 2012, the third largest lottery prize to date was won - $580 million. We won 2 tickets - one from Missouri and the other from Arizona. Missouri Powerball winners are Mark and Cindy Hill. IN Lately This couple had financial difficulties. Cindy was an office manager but lost her job in 2010. Mark worked in a factory.

The couple has three adult children and a 6-year-old adopted daughter from China.

Third largest jackpot size five hundred ninety million dollars On May 18, 2013, it was drawn in the Powerball lottery. The winner, 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie from Florida, bought her ticket at a supermarket. “The man in front of me in line for tickets let me go ahead. Perhaps that’s why I got lucky,” Mackenzie said.
She found out that she had won their television broadcast, but did not immediately contact the lottery organizers to claim the prize; she first consulted with lawyers. Like many other lucky people, she chose to receive all the amounts at once, and received three hundred and ninety million dollars. This is the largest amount received by one person to date.

Two lucky winners, one from California and one from Georgia, shared the second-largest lottery jackpot in history - six hundred forty-eight million dollars. The MegaMillions lottery draw was held on December 17, 2013.
The lucky winner's name is Steve Tran. He often bought lottery tickets, and finally luck smiled on him. Steve is a truck driver by profession. He bought a ticket containing a winning combination - 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and a bonus number - 7 in the city of San Jose, while there on vacation with his family. It should also be noted that in the USA there is a practice when lottery organizers also reward the distribution point - in in this case the gift shop received a million dollars.

At the first place - record jackpot of $640 million. Once again, the MegaMillions lottery set a record. This happened in 2012. Won three tickets in three different cities - Red Bud, Baltimore and in one of the cities of the state.

This concludes the stories of winnings in American lotteries and now we’ll talk about our biggest winnings.

The biggest lottery win in Russia

In March 2009, a resident of Kolpino (a suburb of St. Petersburg) Albert Begrakyanwon the state lottery jackpot 6 out of 45. The winning amount was approximately one hundred million rubles. And today this is the largest jackpot in the entire history of Russian lotteries.

Albert Begrakyan with his wife and children came from Armenia to Russia in 2001. Fate was not always so favorable to him. At first he got a job as a security guard, then he opened a store, and after a while he became the head of a car service center. But Albert always believed in his luck, and therefore periodically purchased lottery tickets.

He used the received amount as follows: he invested 30 million rubles in the construction of his own hotel in the Krasnodar region, purchased several apartments in St. Petersburg, as well as cars for himself and relatives. I simply spent some of it on travel and other pleasant things.
Even at the end of 2013, this is the largest jackpot in Russia.

On June 1, 2013, in the 585th draw of Gosloto 6 out of 45, two players guessed all six numbers. The first one made a detailed bet, and won according to a receipt worth 3,780 rubles 61,518,163 rubles. He bought his ticket at the salon cellular communication. The second, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, also played with an expanded bet. Using a receipt purchased for 1,260 rubles, he managed to win 60,917,821 rubles.

In May 2009, the jackpot amounted to 35 million rubles was won by Muscovite Evgeniy Sidorov. Winning combination 27,8,31,22,4,7.

Fifty-year-old Evgeniy has been playing draw games for many years since Soviet times. numerical lotteries. He invested the winnings in agricultural business.

In 2001, Ufa resident Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova became the owner of almost twenty nine million rubles. She hit the Bingo lottery jackpot. However, this win did not make her happy. Read about her misadventures in the article Lucky Losers.

On April 7, 2013, in the 1232nd draw of Gosloto, 5 out of 36 prizes of eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand rubles was received by the player who purchased the ticket online.

In the 1253rd draw of Gosloto 5 out of 36, which took place on May 8, 2013, a ticket purchased in Moscow won. The winning combination consisted of the following numbers: 5,7,10,17,20. Sum - fourteen million rubles.

JSC Russian Railways, a monopolist in the railway transportation market, also organized its own lottery. To participate you must pay an additional hundred rubles. And then the train ticket will also become a lottery ticket. In the summer of 2012, a prize was drawn - 11.5 million rubles. The winner was a businessman from Stavropol. And the amount he won is the largest in the history of the Russian Railways lottery. The lucky one decided not to reveal his name.

June 2, 2013 for the first time in modern history“Sportloto 6 out of 49” one of the participants in the 23113th draw won a super prize. He guessed all 6 numbers and got 10 million rubles.
Unfortunately, the winners of the Russian Lotto lottery are not presented in this article, since the authors do not have any reliable information about them.