Mega Millions winner! A ticket from a Publix grocery store in Georgia won $983 million on Nov. 14, 2025.

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, holds the record for largest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball win from November 2022.

2 Publix stores in Florida sold billion-dollar lottery tickets for Powerball and Mega Millions in 2016 and 2023, respectively.

Publix stores in Melbourne Beach and Neptune Beach, Florida, and Newnan, Georgia, have ties to Mega Millions, Powerball billion-dollar lotteries.

peaked last month after Mega Millions zeroed in on $1 billion — and after months of rollovers, scored $983 million just before the 2025 Thanksgiving holiday.

A sold the winning ticket that matched five numbers plus the Mega Ball in the Friday, Nov. 14, Mega Millions drawing fo

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