Arizona’s Biggest Winners

Arizona has crowned several big winners in multi-state lotteries, including some that have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Find out about some of the largest.

Powerball

The Grand Canyon State’s biggest-ever win came on April 27, 2022, when a married couple from Gilbert landed a Powerball jackpot worth $473.1 million. They bought their ticket from the QuikTrip gas station near Warner and Gilbert Roads, and opted to take the lump-sum payment of $283.3 million rather that the annuity. The winners decided to stay anonymous.

The legislation to allow lottery winners in Arizona to remain anonymous if their prize is worth $100,000 or more was only enacted in April 2019, so the identity of the state’s next-biggest Powerball winner was made public after his win in November 2012. Matthew Good split a Powerball jackpot worth $587 million with another winner from Missouri, taking a lump sum payout worth $192 million.

Maria Herrera from Glendale also hit a jackpot worth more than $100 million. She claimed a $188 million Powerball jackpot in June 2015 and went for the cash lump sum of $119 million before taxes. Like Matthew Good before her, Herrera’s name was initially kept confidential but was released after a public records request was filed.

A syndicate called the Arizona 9 claimed the biggest group win in the state’s history when they won half of a $94 million Powerball jackpot. The syndicate, started by a group of co-workers at an architectural firm, usually only played the lottery when the jackpot reached $100 million, but decided to play a little earlier on that occasion. The decision paid off and the group cashed a jackpot worth just over $47 million.

Mega Millions

Arizona’s first Mega Millions jackpot win came on June 9, 2020, and was worth $410 million. An anonymous husband and wife came forward to claim the money, taking the cash lump sum value of $319.9 million before withholdings, which amounted to about $76.8 million in federal taxes and $15.3 million in Arizona state taxes. The winners took home approximately $227.8 million.

The prize was the 11th-biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever given away and was the first time in a year that it surpassed $400 million.

Another Mega Millions win followed in October 2021, when a family from Lake Havasu City banked $108 million. In January 2025, an anonymous player from Tempe became the state’s third Mega Millions winner, claiming $112 million.