Ever since the world’s first true online casino was launched in 1994, players have been trying their luck on online slot machines that feature massive progressive jackpots. Some of them were lucky enough to hit multimillion prizes and join the elite club of millionaires after several spins of the reels. We have prepared a list with the top five biggest online slot jackpot winners in history and we recommend you to sit while reading these fantastic numbers.
Mega Moolah (£13,212,882)
On 6th of October, 2015, Mega Moolah paid the largest win ever scored on a slot machine. Mega Moolah is Microgaming’s flagship progressive jackpot slot, whose top prize always grows incredibly fast. The record breaking amount of £13,212,882 (€17,879,645) went to a British soldier named Jonathon Heywood, who lives in Cheshire, UK. He hadn’t even imagined what was ahead of him when he decided to spin the reels of Mega Moolah a few times, placing £0.25 per spin. However, after several minutes his life changed forever when the slot surprised him with the massive jackpot everyone has been expecting to be paid. If you play this game in Rands it converts to over a quarter of a billion Rand.
Mega Fortune (€17,861,813)
Once the biggest online slots win ever, noted in the Guinness World Records list, is the €17,861,813 jackpot on the NetEnt’s slot machine Mega Fortune. This win was scooped by an anonymous player in Mariehamn, Finland on the 20th of January, 2013. Some of the very little information revealed about this win is that the player was a 47-year old male who placed a €0.25 bet on the popular progressive. The jackpot was hit at the Scandinavian online casino PAF and some sources quoted the winner saying “I laughed and cried at the same time.”
Mega Fortune (€11,736,375)
NetEnt’s Mega Fortune has always been known as a very generous progressive slot. Only two years before giving out the record breaking jackpot which was previously mentioned, the machine paid another multi-million prize back in 2011. The winner wanted to remain anonymous, but what’s known about him so far is that he was in his 20s when he decided to play a few sessions at Betsson Casino in order to fight insomnia. He will never forget 24th of September, 2011, when the machine surprised him with an €11.7 million jackpot. At the time, this win was the largest online slot machine win ever and was added to the list of Guinness World Records. If you want to see what’s the big deal about this game you can either try it for real money or play for free at casinos that offer practice mode.
Hall of Gods (€7,820,888)
Hall of Gods is yet another progressive slot by Net Entertainment that proved very generous over the years. Many players had the best day of their lives thanks to this machine and very recently a player from Norway hit one of the top five biggest jackpots in history of staggering €7,820,888. Even though there aren’t any personal details about the winner, we know that he played at Betsson Casino in April, 2015 when he hit the slot’s top prize.
The Dark Knight (£5,883,044)
John Orchard from Lincolnshire, UK, will never forget 9th of December, 2012 because that was the day when he hit the £5,883,044 progressive jackpot on the Microgaming slot The Dark Knight. This slot is linked to the Mega Moolah jackpot network and thus quickly grows over several million pounds. What’s interesting about this win is the fact that John is actually a bingo fan, but he nonetheless decided to wager 30p on this thrilling machine. As a reward, the machine gave him the randomly triggered jackpot and made him a millionaire. Orchard was employed at the Job Centre at the time of the win and it goes without saying that he decided to quit after scooping almost £6 million on the Batman themed machine.
