Every year, online casinos worldwide create instant millionaires thanks to progressive jackpot games. Progressives are a special type of jackpot where a percentage of every player’s bet goes into the communal prize pool until someone triggers it and scoops the huge win.
In this article, we will explore the biggest online casino wins in the history of iGaming. These lucky players unlocked generational wealth with a single spin!
1. $40 Million — Wheel of Wishes WowPot!
December 20, 2023, one very fortunate player received an early Christmas gift after triggering a $40 million jackpot on Wheel of Wishes WowPot! To this day, this is the largest win at an online casino anywhere in the world.
To trigger Wheel of Wishes’ progressive jackpot, you need to hit scatters to unlock power spins. If a bonus wheel symbol hits during free spins, the colorful jackpot wheel will pop up. Spin the wheel and land it on the WowPot! segment to win millions!
2. $23.6 Million — Absolootly Mad™ Mega Moolah
An anonymous Belgian player, on April 27, 2021, decided to try his luck and spin Absolootly Mad™ Mega Moolah’s reels at Napoleon Sports & Casino. Then, out of nowhere, the Belgian gambler triggered the $23.6 million progressive jackpot.
3. $23.5 Million — Mega Moolah
September 2018 was a great month to be playing at Grand Mondial Casino. An anonymous player took a spin on Mega Moolah and emerged with a $23.5 million jackpot. At that time, it was the biggest online casino win in history.
4. $20 Million – Mega Fortune
The state-run PAF online casino in Finland was the scene of a historic $20 million jackpot back in 2013. The Finnish player in his forties took a $0.25 spin on Mega Fortune and became an instant millionaire.
5. $18.5 Million — Mega Moolah
Jon Heywood from the UK set a Guinness World Record for online casino jackpot in 2015 when he hit the $18.5 million jackpot on Mega Moolah. The soldier who had toured Afghanistan was 25 minutes into his session at Betway when the jackpot was randomly unlocked.
Amazingly, Heywood was more interested in the WWII tank documentary on TV and missed how the bonus feature triggered. At first, he was convinced he’d only won $10,000, but the prize kept skyrocketing until it finally reached $18.5 million!
6. $18.2 Million — Book of Atem WowPot!
Back in 2021, while the UK was under lockdown, a British player logged in to 32Red Casino and took a spin on Book of Atem: WowPot! by Games Global. In a stroke of immense luck, he hit a massive $18.2 million jackpot and joined Britain’s wealthy!
7. $17 Million — Arabian Nights
Norway is home to over 200,000 millionaires, and in 2011, a local Norwegian player added himself to the list when he took a spin on Arabian Nights and scooped the juicy $17 million jackpot. Apparently, he’d only been playing for a few minutes before his screen lit up, and the massive win kept soaring higher and higher!
8. $14.2 million — Mega Moolah
Canadians are keen slot players, with over 60% playing online within the last 12 months — so it’s not a surprise that a Canuck would scoop a huge jackpot. In January 2019, at Zodiac Casino, a Canadian player hit a monumental $14.2 million jackpot on Mega Moolah.
9. $9.5 million — Mega Moolah
In May 2020, a Kiwi smashed the New Zealand record for the biggest online casino jackpot. The player was taking $0.25 spins on millionaire maker Mega Moolah when the bonus wheel emerged and landed on the mouth-watering $9.5 million prize.
10. $7 million — Mega Moolah
A 27-year-old Maori man named Rawiri Pou won a $7 million jackpot in June 2016. The New Zealander who was working at KFC at the time deposited $250 at Casinoland. He initially won $1,500, and instead of collecting his winnings, he opted to try his luck on Mega Moolah. Pou made the right decision, spiking the giant jackpot.
So there you have it: the biggest online casino win of all time is $40 million, which was won by a player in 2023 on Wheel of Wishes WowPot! by Games Global.
The WowPot! series of progressive jackpot slots continues to offer seven and eight-figure prize pools and has paid out over $270 million in total since being launched in 2020, while Mega Moolah slots have dished out over $1.1 billion in prizes. As online casinos continue to grow, it seems inevitable that someone will hit a $100 million jackpot within the next 10 years!
