"Hey, you never know!"

We hear it all too much and the good ol' United States of America certainly believes the same thing because that's the reason that the top 10 largest lottery jackpots all happened in the past three years. Yesterday, the sixth largest jackpot was announced at a prize of $500 million. Though, you know the government wants a little piece most of that because they deserve it are ridiculous, so if there was one winner they would take home about $310 million.

Let's go over the top 10 biggest lottery jackpots in history.

  • 1

    $656 million

    March 2012
  • 2

    $648 million

    December 2013
  • 3

    $590 million

    May 2013
  • 4

    $587million

    November 2012
  • 5

    $564 million

    February 2015
  • 6

    $500 million

    January 2016
  • 7

    $448 million

    August 2013
  • 8

    $425 million

    February 2014
  • 9

    $414 million

    March 2014
  • 10

    $399 million

    September 2013

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