Record Lottery Jackpots This Week In New York

This week there is more than $600 million dollars up for grabs for lottery players in New York State.

The jackpots for both the Mega Millions and the Powerball are over $300 million dollars each and if someone from New York were to win one of them, they would land on the list of the Top 5 largest Lottery jackpots ever won in New York State.

Tonight's Powerball jackpot is now $313 million dollars, while the Mega Million's jackpot for Friday night's drawing is at $303 million dollars.

So if you took home one of those jackpots, where would you rank on the list of "Largest Lottery Jackpots Ever Won In New York"?

Here are the current top 6 largest lottery jackpots won by a New York Resident.

6. $202 Million Dollars

A group of players who played under an LLC named 1937 Flatbush Ave Dodgers LLC won the Powerball prize on June 1st, 2011.

5.$208 Million Dollars

Daniel Bruckner claimed the Mega Millions jackpot winning just a shade over $200 million dollars in December of 2011.

4. $319 Million Dollars

Seven co-workers from Albany pulled their money and had the winning ticket for the Mega Millions. They took home $319 million dollars in 2011.

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3. $326 Million Dollars

Harold Diamond held the record for the largest lottery jackpot in New York for seven years. He took home the Mega Millions jackpot in 2014.

2. $432 Million Dollars

This winning Mega Millions ticket was sold in September of 2021. The NY Lottery does not know who owns the tickets.

1. $476 Million Dollars

Johnnie Taylor took home the jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing in April of 2023.

So if you won any of the lottery jackpots this week, you would land at #5 on this list.