The biggest win in the world

The most honest lotteries in Russia

In order not to fall for the tricks of scammers and swindlers, you only need to play lotteries, state-regulated. Their members can count on guaranteed rewards, if their bet or ticket wins.

The slogan 6 of 45

Draw type of drawing with cash prizes. The minimum jackpot is 10 million rubles.

The amount increases with each print run, until it is played. The essence of the game is guessing 6 numbers from 45.

The player can choose 1 a combination of 6 numbers and pay 100 rubles per bet or increase the chances, adding several numbers to the selected row and paying a certain amount for additional combinations.

Enough to guess 2 numbers, to get the minimum prize in 100 rubles. Next, the prize fund is distributed as a percentage.

Lottery rules

Housing lottery

The meaning of the "Housing Lottery" is, that the main prize is not money, and real estate (apartments and country houses). The participant buys a ticket with 2 ready-made playing fields. Each sector contains 15 numbers ranging from 1 to 90.

You don't need to guess and cross out anything. It is enough just to turn on the broadcast of the draw and cross out the matching numbers of balls with the numbers on the playing field.

Game scheme:

• players wins in the first round, which have all the numbers in one line crossed out;
• in the second - with one crossed out playing field;
• in the third - with two fields with completely crossed out numbers.

First participant, which will have all the numbers crossed out, becomes the owner of the main prize. In the history of the game, the value of the biggest win was 24 000 000 rubles.

Where to buy the Housing Lottery

Russian lotto

The lottery resembles the game "Lotto" familiar from childhood. The future player buys a ticket at a point of sale or on the Stoloto website with ready-made fields for playing.

During the broadcast of the draw, the presenter takes out numbered kegs from the 1 to 90. Participants cross out the dropped numbers.

The man becomes the winner, crossed out in the first round 5 numbers in one line, and in the second - one playing field. The main prize goes to the player, who will be the first to cross out all the numbers on the ticket.

The Golden Horseshoe is held in the same way - a game with a smaller prize fund, but more likely to win.

How are the draws going

Instant lottery from Sberbank

FROM 2011 year, everyone can purchase a ticket for the instant lottery of Sberbank at the nearest branch. No need to wait for the draw.

It's enough just to buy a ticket, paying for it from 20 to 100 rubles, and remove the protective layer in the desired area. Winning up to 1 000 rubles can be received immediately in the same branch.

Zodiac

If you rely on the magic of numbers, you can play the Zodiac lottery. The essence of the game is to indicate any invented date and zodiac sign in a specially designated field.

The draw is online. If the numbers, indicated by the participant, coincided, he receives a prize from 25 to 3 000 000 rubles depending on the percentage of matches.

How to fill out a ticket

State lotteries in Russia can be safely trusted. To win, just buy a ticket. At the same time, it is not necessary to purchase many coupons at once.. As the story describes, record high prizes were received by players, who spent the minimum amount on participation.

5 place - Peter Eastgate (Denmark) — WSOP Main Event 2008 — $9 152 416

5 place - Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate, quickly burst into the poker elite, was a 22-year-old when he won the WSOP Main Event. A young man from the tiny Danish town of Odense became addicted to hold'em during his school years. At first, Peter wanted to connect his life with the economy, but fate or Lady Luck intervened, and Eastgate chose a professional poker career.

Everything in Peter's life changed 2008 year, which brought him more $46,3 thousand, won in card tournaments. If not for this money, Eastgate Couldn't Pay Buy-In To Win WSOP Main Event! In the final of the tournament, Peter beat Russian Ivan Demidov and received $9 152 416 prize money.

After this absolutely unexpected triumph for him, Eastgate continued to play well and traveled a lot around the world.. Now the Dane took a break and decided to rethink life again and, may be, start from scratch.

2 place - USA Powerball Lottery - Total prize fund - 600 million $, the biggest win is 600 million $

Powerball

American Powerball is Mega Millions' strongest and main contender. Powerball was founded in 1988 year and today it is the most important player in this market. The initial Powerball jackpot is 40 million dollars. She has one of the largest jackpots in the world.

This amount reached more than $500 million.

The lottery has a Power play function for an additional fee, allowing to increase the received winnings several times in case of winnings. Tickets can be bought at 45 American states, while Powerball can be played by players from all over the world, purchasing through a special service. Powerball draw, as well as the presentation of prizes to participants in the lottery in nine prize nominations is carried out in Florida every Saturday and Wednesday 23:00.

In May 2013 of the Year Powerball held a draw $600 million, which became the second highest record jackpot. An 84-year-old pensioner became its sole owner, living in florida.

Interesting and unusual cases of big wins

Before the start of the season 2016/2017 in the Premier League, bookmakers accepted bets on Lester's winnings in the Premier League by odds 5000. According to many experts, this club, according to the results of the championship, had to leave the Premier League. But one loyal fan bet not Lester's championship 50 pounds. But two months before the end of the championship, he accepted the bookmaker's offer to pay 72 thousand. pounds instead of a possible 250 thousand. at the end of the season.

One of the Liverpool fans put Xabi Alonso on goal from the center of the field in one of the Premier League matches. The stake was 200, and the coefficient is 125. In the end, the goal was scored in this way. According to the bettor, he had a dream, in which he saw, how the Spanish midfielder hit the goal from the center.

Winnings in the USA

$ 425 million

California retiree Raymond Buxton also tempted fate with the Powerball lottery. And won in the end 425 million. He declared his rights to the money two months after the announcement of the number of the lucky ticket. According to Buxton, all this time he tried to believe in his luck and endlessly rechecked the numbers. According to the rules, winnings can be obtained in different ways, the most profitable - in parts during 20 years, then the deductions will be the smallest. Raymond did not want to wait and demanded money immediately, lump sum. As a result, "everything" fell into his account 242 million, of which Buxton had to pay tax.

$ 429 million

Another pensioner, from new jersey, became the winner of the lottery with a prize fund in 429 million dollars. Verney, she is not alone, and together with their seven daughters. One of them admitted, that their family is in shock from what happened. This did not stop women from exercising sanity and demanding payments., what is called, in place. Having received 284 million, they paid off mortgages and loans, taken for education. And there must be something left for a rainy day.

$ 447 million

Ticket, who changed his life, lottery winner, held in the USA in June 2017, bought in a small store - in the "load" for beer. What brought him a win 447 million. The lucky guy refused to give his name to the press, as well as share further plans for life. By the way, lucky not for him alone: the lottery organizers decided to encourage the store, lucky ticket seller, and backed his owners with a million dollar check.

$ 487 million

New Hampshire Spouses in July 2016 of the year won nearly half a billion dollars in the Powerball lottery. Of this money 140 millions ate all kinds of tax deductions and contributions, but the received was more than enough for everything. However, the lucky ones did not become greedy and donated part of the winnings to charity projects.

$ 590 million

In May 2013 Gloria Mackenzie, Zephyrhills resident, bought a lottery ticket at the checkout of one of the supermarkets. A month later it turned out, that the ticket brought her a fantastic win in 590 million. 84-summer Gloria, judging, that it makes no sense to receive this amount in installments for many years, preferred a lump sum. As a result, I lost almost half of my money, 220 million, and still went down in history as the owner of the largest "solo" in American history (inherited by one person, not spouses) winnings. However, Mackenzie did not last long in record holders: four years later the record was broken.

$ 758,7 million

Powerball lottery draw on the night of 23 on 24 August 2017 year caused a stir among the residents of the States - the process was watched by two million people. Betting, to put it mildly, were high: there was more at stake 750 million. The chance to win was 1 to 292 millions. Massachusetts nurse Mavis Wonzik got this chance.. How exactly did she manage the incredible winnings, unknown. It is only known, that immediately after confirming her victory in the lottery, she quit.

$ 1,5 billion

The record jackpot in history was drawn in 2016 year - the amount exceeded one and a half billion (!) dollars. There were several winners, so the money was divided among three. None of the winners wanted to receive their share gradually, agreeing to seriously lose in payments. As a result, each lucky person was credited with 327 million. Which is also not bad.

$ 1,5 billion

Another one and a half billion win, but this time alone, happened in 2018 year. The jackpot was hit by a resident of South Carolina, who was silent for four whole months after the announcement of the lottery results. In February of this year, the winner's lawyer came for money, completed all paperwork and transfer of winnings to the account of his client.

What is a jackpot and what is it like?

Let's figure it out first, what is it all about.

Usually the jackpot is called a super prize, which can be obtained from a certain game. Unknown, when the casino had the idea to reward players with such prizes, but the word "jackpot" itself has been known in England for at least 19 century.

What gives the jackpot? Its amount is much more than those rates, which are made specifically for this game. It is paid out of those deductions, which the gambling establishment makes with every dollar it receives.

for example:

• At the poker table during the week there were 500 games.
• In total, the casino received $100 000.
• 5% of this amount is deposited on the jackpot.
• Player, who is lucky, can take home $5 000, putting the usual $100 or $200.

I.e, jackpot is a kind of "fund" of the institution, which is replenished from casino income.

There are two main types of jackpots.

Fixed small jackpot

It is often used on slot machines. Actually, the very essence of slot machines boils down to small jackpots. Most of them work like this:

• You put 100 rubles and twist.
• Will drop out 3 apples - get 200 rubles.
• 3 orange - 500 rubles.
• 3 banana - 1000 rubles.
• 3 cocktail - 5 000 rubles.

If on the machine 3 drum with 5 different symbols, then the probability of getting any winning combination is 0.08%. Which means, What's on 100 spins the machine will work 100 x 100 = 10 000 rubles and will pay in total 6 800, If everyone 4 combinations will play. This mathematics allows the organizer of this game to live well., but players also have a chance to really win.

For an online casino owner, the income is especially high, because maintenance costs are much less, a 100 players from different cities and countries can make bets in just half an hour or even faster.

However, that machine, which we gave as an example, is an average winning, since the maximum jackpot is x50 of the bet amount. But there are also more winning ones - for example, such, where for the falling of the three highest symbols the player receives the sum, multiplied by 100 or even 500 time.

Thus, the casino kills two birds with one stone - it encourages players to play more and bet large sums..

It's very insulting, if you got x500, when did you put 1 ruble instead of 100.

Accumulative big jackpot

This is just the one, for which the casino sets aside a portion of its income. The big jackpot has two main parameters:

• Its size.
• Conditions for obtaining.

The size grows with every new game. Often, the jackpot amount is written in large numbers above the entrance to the casino, over the gambling table or on the website. After all, the inscription “today the jackpot is $8 888»Can attract more customers, than any other ad.

Sometimes, if the conditions for receiving the jackpot are very difficult, it can grow to completely exorbitant levels. There have been cases in the history of casinos, when for several years the jackpot reached a million dollars or more.

true, in such situations, the casino usually decides, that it is completely irrational to pay such an amount into one person, so instead, smaller jackpots are drawn with simplified conditions for obtaining. And the accumulated million is used precisely as a prize fund.

As for the conditions for getting a big jackpot, then the casino decides for itself, in what cases it will be paid. For poker games, these can be different rare combinations of cards, which should be involved. for example, the so-called "royal flush" (5 cards from ace to ten, thrown out at once). If the player has thrown such a combination and won, then can count on the jackpot.

In the case of slot machines, the jackpot condition is usually:

• Losing a line of the rarest symbols.
• Super game win, which opens as a reward for the previous win.

Frequent daily, weekly or monthly jackpot drawings. In this case, a list of all players is compiled, who have thrown out the required combination or won the super game during this time, and among them the jackpot is drawn. Usually the choice is made by a random number generator.

In general, winning the jackpot is quite realistic for any player.. It happens, that a man picks a big jackpot, the only time in his life who entered a casino and bet very little money. for example, in 2003 year in Las Vegas, one man played with a slot machine for only $100, and won already 40 million.

Of course, luck chooses who it wants. However, there are some principles, which maximize the chance of, that the jackpot will fall out for you.

6 place - Jonathan Duhamel (Canada) — WSOP Main Event 2010 — $ 8 944 310

6 place - Jonathan Duhamel

Jonathan Duhamel is another young poker triumph. He won the WSOP Main Event 2010 and carried away $ 8 944 310. At the time of participation in the final, he was 23 of the year.

The fate of Duhamel's tournament payouts is incredibly interesting. Jonathan is known as an ardent hockey fan. He often refused to participate in major poker tournaments, since I was leaving for another hockey game. Montreal Canadiens - Jonathan's favorite team since childhood. After winning the Main Event in 2010 year he donated to the Children’s Foundation Montreal Canadiens - a fund to help poor children - $ 100 000. And now Duhamel supports the organization, being its largest sponsor!

And in 2011 year Jonathan, coming home, discovered, that the money left from the winnings, WSOP bracelet and a personalized engraved watch donated by the tournament organizers stolen. Fortunately, the police quickly got on the trail of criminals and returned the valuable property to the owner. Then the young poker player found out, that his girlfriend was the gunner, dissatisfied with gifts that are too cheap in her opinion, which Duhamel did to her!

From Russia with love

The largest winnings belong not only to foreign players and bookmaker clients. Domestic sports fans were also able to make history, having hit a big jackpot. And not necessarily the largest bet in the world, but the size of some may surprise. Known recent cases:

• the user of the Marathon office set 1,5 million. rubles for the victory of Belgium, which was supposed to rival Sweden, Germany and Tunisia. He ended up getting 3,25 million;
• another representative of the domestic winners is a Moscow businessman, who bet on one of the players in the Australian tennis championship. By choosing outcomes on 15 games, and putting 50 rubles, Muscovite won 141 million in Vinline;
• in February 2020 bettor in BC Olympus put 500 rubles per coupon from 6 NHL matches, in which in all positions chose the outcome of a draw in regulation time. Coefficient - 2000 brought a lucky analyst 1 one million rubles;
• and another client of the same bookmaker Olympus won the KHL this season 1,26 million, put 200000 rubles for kef 6,3.
• Probably the biggest win in recent years was for the forecaster Fonbet at the last world championship - almost 15 million rubles at a rate of 2,85 million. to win the French in the final.

It is problematic to name the largest bet in the world due to the fact, that many do not want to "shine", and services for collecting such information are not yet provided. Occasionally bookmakers run unnamed infographics or publish news about the brightest winnings, what we shared with you.

Article author: Evgeniy

2 place - Daniel Coleman (USA) — The Big One for One Drop WSOP 2014 — $15 306 668

2 place - Daniel Coleman

Турнир The Big One for One Drop, hosted by WSOP, so grandiose, that participation alone is worth $1 000 000! IN 2014 year its winner - 24-year-old Daniel Coleman received $15 306 668. The total prize fund of the event, including deductions to charity, was $37 333 338. It was divided between eight finalists.

The Battle of Big One lasted three days until then., when Daniel Coleman, left alone with his eminent namesake Daniel Negreanu, knocked that out of the tournament. But immediately after the victory, the young player behaved more than strange - he flatly refused to answer journalists' questions, and then made a sensational statement: "Poker is a dark and brutal game". How could you say that, when they lie at their feet 15 million dollars with kopecks, unclear!

What lottery really to win - what the statistics say

We looked at this issue from the perspective of probability theory. But you need to understand, that it works with a very large sample, about a million outcomes.

No other company has had such a large number of draws yet., therefore, lotteries are more interesting to consider from a statistical point of view.

The slogan

Under the brand name "Gosloto" 4 state lotteries, we will consider the most popular - "5 out of 36". Held daily 5 draws, and the total number of copies exceeded 8100.

The statistics are quite interesting:

1. Number of participants. Participates in each drawing from 10000 to 20000 tickets. At the same time, the largest number of participants falls on the evening draws.
2. Drawn amounts. If we talk about circulation, in which there is no jackpot, then payouts range from 300 000 to 800 000 thousand rubles.
3. Jackpot. The super prize is drawn on average every hundredth draw. That is, every 20 days another millionaire appears.

Russian lotto

One of the most popular and oldest lotteries in Russia. Draws are held once a week on Sundays.

The site provides the following statistics:

1. Number of participants. In the regular draw, from 2 500 000 to 3 500 000 tickets. In special, when remains 2 barrel, from 7 000 000. The first of January 2018 the record was set: in the drawing took over 45 000 000 participants.
2. Drawn amounts. On a typical day, played out 100 000 000 — 120 000 000 rubles. For special editions, the amount is doubled. The record belongs to the January edition - 2 125 000 150 rubles.
3. Not dropped barrels. Most often numbers remain in the bag 83, 76, 78, 70, 37.

Winning chance. This indicator depends on the missing numbers. There are no official statistics on the site. But by simple mathematical calculations, the following result will be obtained: 4 barrel - 20%, 3 — 30%, 2 — 40%.

Housing lottery

The name speaks for itself. All big prizes are real estate (country houses, cottages, apartments). The rules are exactly the same, as in "Russian Lotto". Only a lottery drum is used instead of a bag of barrels. Draw takes place once a week on Sunday.

The statistics for the draws are as follows:

1. Number of participants. It is lower, than in the more popular "Russian Lotto". For standard - up to a million, for special draws - up to 2,5 million.
2. Drawn amounts. In the standard draw, the draw is up to 80 million rubles. The record belongs to the January special edition, during which more than 310 000 000 rubles.
3. Non-falling balls. Balls numbered are the least likely to take part in the game. 18, 72, 11, 70, 37.

Golden Key

In the past, one of the most popular representatives, and the main competitor of "Russian Lotto". IN 2015 ceased to exist, for unknown reasons. We wanted to compare the statistics of the "Golden Key" with existing analogues, but there is no information.

The only thing, what we managed to find was a loud mention of, that during its existence it was played 2000 prizes worth more than 1 million each.

Sportloto

Sportloto is the oldest representative on this list. Draws are held every 15 minutes. Sportloto does not boast of large amounts paid. The maximum possible amount is 10 000 000 rubles. The biggest win, found by me in the archive - 63 000 rubles.

In Russia

Residents of Russia love lottery draws no less than Americans. They are divided into two types:

• circulation;
• unclean.

The largest amounts are drawn in the drawn versions, when the rally is held after, how is the sales stage finished?. According to the law, they are all supervised by the state. The creation of such a business by individuals is prohibited., as they cannot provide guarantees.

Find out, what is the biggest lottery win for a resident of the Russian Federation.

Nikolay Miroshnichenko from Yekaterinburg and Sergey Dorogov from St. Petersburg (1billion. rubles)

"Stoloto" lottery brought a gift to two men at the same time. On the eve of a new 2019 the year the jackpot was drawn in 1 billion rubles, it was shared by two lucky ones.

First - driver Nikolay Miroshnichenko from Yekaterinburg. He spoke about the family's tradition of buying tickets on New Year's holidays and waiting for a miracle.. Circulation 1264 did not look, because they just forgot.

N. Miroshnichenko and his wife came for the prize

The second lucky was a locksmith from St. Petersburg Sergey Dorogov. He came to Moscow for the prize with his wife, cloakroom attendant. TO 31 December they purchased immediately 10 tickets and dreamed of winning a house. Now they can make dreams come true.

Natalia Vlasova from Voronezh (506 million. rubles)

In the end 2017 on the eve of the New Year holidays, the country was shocked by the news that, that Russian Lotto played the jackpot, and it was won by a resident of the Voronezh region. The woman could not be found for a long time, and then people reached out to her asking for help with money.

Natalia Vlasova from the Voronezh region

Natalia Vlasova - retired, before, how she got the chance to become a millionaire, she was engaged in trade, to bring additional income to the family. Income tax will be deducted from the total amount, everything else will be transferred in several amounts.

Hasmik Reufovna from Sochi (365 million. rubles)

A resident of Sochi bought a lottery ticket "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 "and 21 May 2017 year, fate gave her a gift in the form of three hundred million. Wherein, organizers said, that a woman can receive a prize at the main office in Moscow. She had to collect money for a trip to the capital, because the family lives in poverty.

Hasmik Reufovna - cultural worker. Amazing, that along with the news about the huge amount of winnings, it was said that, that she wants to donate part of the amount to the KPRF fund.

The biggest win in Russia

Muscovite got the biggest win in a Russian office. He put 50 rubles for the tote in the Fonbet BC, and guessed 15 outcomes. The total prize was 142 million. rubles. This amount came as a jackpot from previously unplayed draws. Not until, after that none of the Russian bettors managed to break this record.

Among the predicted events were the matches of the Spanish football championships, Italy, Bulgaria, hockey fights NHL.

Bookmaker League Betting in 2012 had to pay out the biggest win in its history. One of her clients delivered 500 rubles for express with the total odds 2500. As a result, the game coupon was played and the bettor got his hands 1,250 million. rubles plus 630 thousand. rubles bonus for such a large coefficient.

IN 2017 year one of the clients of BC Vinline put on the express 200 thousand. rubles. The coefficient of that rate was 41. What is remarkable, all bets in the bet slip were on the home win. There were 4 events in express, and they all played. The player got his hands on 10 million. rubles.

3 place - Transnational lottery "EuroMillions" - Total prize fund - 190 million €, the biggest win is 190 million €

EuroMillions

EuroMillions has been launched in 2004 year. She quickly gained popularity. It is the largest game in Europe today. Big jackpot prize pool, which is growing due to the transfer of the prize fund, as well as the simplicity of the game allowed to expand the number of participating countries to nine from 3 to 2004 year. EuroMillions was originally held in Spain, UK and France, and today they are joined by Austria, Ireland, Andorra, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Portugal.

The minimum lottery jackpot is € 15 million., however, quite often it increases over € 100 million. EuroMillions has 13 prize nominations, which allows players to expect a higher probability of winning a prize. The biggest prize won so far is the jackpot in 190 million €. It was won twice: in 2014 year in Portugal and in 2012 year in Great Britain. Colin and Chris Weir at 2011 won in Great Britain 185 million. €.