Youtube/Pennsylvania Lottery/Antena 3 Noticias The last decade boasted some of the biggest lottery wins of all time. In 2016, a whopping $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot was won in the US — the world's biggest ever jackpot. Elsewhere in the world, the Spanish Christmas lottery holds the record for the biggest payout, offering total prize money of over 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) Unfortunately, there are also downsides to coming into large amounts of money so publicly, including cases of theft and murder.