What Is The World’s Biggest Progressive Jackpot?

Progressive jackpot slots are very popular at online casinos because they give players the chance to earn extra-large cash prizes. The way these work is simple: the jackpot starts off at a set amount of money and it grows every time someone places a real-money bet on the slot. The chances of winning a progressive jackpot prize are very slim indeed, but winning isn’t impossible.

In this article, we’ll be looking at the world’s biggest progressive jackpot: Mega Moolah. Find out what slots offer this jackpot and what its top payouts are.

The Original Mega Moolah Slot

Mega Moolah is an online slot from Microgaming themed to the animals of Africa. It was released in 2006 and is available to play at many top online casinos. What made it so popular was the fact that it offers not one, but four progressive jackpots. These are:

• Mini Jackpot: Starts at £10.
• Minor Jackpot: Starts at £100.
• Major Jackpot: Starts at £10,000.
• Mega Jackpot: Starts at £1,000,000.

When playing the slot, the progressive jackpot feature is triggered at random and can be activated on any spin, even a non-winning one. The bigger your bet is, the more of a chance you have of triggering the feature.

If you’re lucky enough to trigger the progressive jackpot feature, you’ll get to spin a wheel and will be guaranteed to win one of the four jackpot prizes. The wheel is split into 20 segments of four colours:

• 10 red segments corresponding to the Mini Jackpot.
• 6 orange segments corresponding to the Minor Jackpot.
• 3 yellow segments corresponding to the Major Jackpot.
• 1 white segment corresponding to the Mega Jackpot.

You click to spin the wheel and when it stops, the segment that lands on the pointer de-termines the jackpot prizes you win.

You have a 1/20 chance of winning the top prize, the Mega Jackpot, which is guaranteed to make you a millionaire. There’s a 3/20 chance of the Major Jackpot being won, a 3/10 of the Minor Jackpot being awarded and a 1/2 chance of the Mini Jackpot being paid out.

Other Mega Moolah Slots

The original Mega Moolah slot was very successful and this prompted its provider Mi-crogaming to develop more slots using the Mega Moolah name. These slots are listed be-low:

• Mega Moolah Goddess. An enhanced version of the original Mega Moolah Isis, an Egyptian-themed slot that came out in 2009.
• Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah. Set underwater and based on the sunken is-land city of Atlantis, this Mega Moolah slot was released in early 2020.
• Absolootly Mad: Mega Moolah. This slot draws inspiration from the classic novel Alice in Wonderland and debuted in April 2020.
• Fortunium Gold Mega Moolah. Fortunium is a slot with a steampunk theme and design. An updated version that includes the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot feature was released in September 2020.
• Jungle Mega Moolah. A jungle-themed slot that was released to online casinos in late 2020.
• Juicy Joker Mega Moolah. This quirky slot game was a new release for 2021 and came out at the start of the year.
• Treasures of Krakatoa Mega Moolah. The newest slot in the Mega Moolah series, this one’s coming out in November 2021 and is themed to the Indonesian volcanic island responsible for one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in human history.

Play any one of these slots and you have a chance (albeit a small one) of triggering the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot feature and winning a jackpot prize. The values of the jackpot prizes are the same no matter which of the slots you play. Bets from all of these slots are added to the progressive jackpots.

Mega Moolah Winners

The Mega Jackpot (the one that starts at £1 million) is the world’s highest-paying progres-sive jackpot. In 2020, it was won eight times and its biggest payout was CAD 16,496,347.95 (approximately £9.4 million).

Since launching in 2006, the Mega Jackpot has been won 71 times and is won every eight weeks and two days on average. Its smallest payout to date is £1,073,791, while its big-gest is €18,915,721 (approximately £16.2 million) and its average is £4,456,014.

The Mega Jackpot is responsible for seven of the world’s 10 biggest progressive jackpot payouts. Its top payout of €18,915,721 is the single biggest amount of money ever won on a progressive jackpot anywhere in the world. This huge sum of money was won by an anonymous player at the Grand Mondial online casino in 2018.

It’s only a matter of time before the Mega Jackpot pays out an even bigger cash prize. Lots of players are trying their luck and playing Mega Moolah slots. Even though the chances of winning the top prize are incredibly low (even just triggering the progressive jackpot feature is very unlikely), you have to be in it to win it.