• The biggest lottery jackpot ever won, a huge prize of $2.04 billion, was in California in 2022. • A New Jersey winner set a Mega Millions jackpot record last year: an estimated $1.13 billion. • In 2019, a North Carolina man won $344 million after using numbers from a fortune cookie.

From small fortunes to record-breaking payouts, lottery winners have hit it big across the country.

Just days ago, an anonymous Virginia resident claimed the state's largest-ever lottery jackpot, a whopping $348 million.

And on Monday, after no one hit the Powerball jackpot, the prize grew to a massive $1.3 billion.

Still, if there's a winner at the next drawing on Wednesday, they won't walk away with the largest lottery payout of all time.

That came in November 2022, when a California resident won t

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