A numerical look at the world's most popular jackpot slot: Mega Moolah
There are many numbers that you will associate with the Mega Moolah slot most probably the largest number being the potential jackpot prize that you could win when you play the game, which currently stands at over 8.3 million.
However, over the years since the game was first released, there are a number of things which have happened which are hugely interesting. In this article, we take a look at the Mega Moolah slot in terms of the numbers. Starting at zero and then moving through numbers each one with at least Mega Moolah-themed fact about it.
Of course, we won't be covering every number up to 1.1 billion (which is the last number in this article), but we will cover a fair few over that lengthy list all of which have an interesting Mega Moolah fact attached.
Zero
- The number of years with 0 winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot since 2007.
- The number of Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot Winners that have landed their prize from 10am to 11am CET.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners so far on the Mega Vault Millionaire and Absolootly Mad slots.
One
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2010.
- Mega Moolah Mega jackpot winners who have landed their win on each of the Atlantean Treasures and the now unavailable Dark Knight slots.
- The number of jackpot winners landed on the 1st of the month. The only winner on the 1st of any month came on the 1st October 2017 when one player landed a £1.448 million pounds prize.
- The lowest number of spins you could play on any of the Mega Moolah slots before landing the Mega Moolah top jackpot prize.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners that have landed their prize between 12am and 1am and 3am to 4am CET.
- As far as we know, no player has ever won the top Mega Moolah jackpot prize more than one time.
- The very first Mega Moolah jackpot win we can confirm came back on 15th November 2007 with a winner in South African Rand of R4.3 million. However, it is possible that there may have been winners prior to this date that we cannot corroborate.
- The number of Mega Moolah games tied to an exclusive network of casinos. It is the Mega Vault Millionaire slot which can only be played at Casino Rewards casinos.
Two
- The number of Mega Moolah top jackpot prize winners that have claimed their prize in South African Rand.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners to have landed their prize in either the month of February or July.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners that have landed their win playing the 5 Reel Drive Mega Moolah slot.
- The total number of Mega Moolah top jackpot prizes won in both 2011 and 2015.
- The total number of jackpots won on the Mega Moolah slot between 9-10 million, 11-12 million and also 15-20 million in a variety of currencies.
- The number of days on which the Mega Moolah jackpot has been won twice within that 24-hour period. Those dates were the 22nd May 2017 and then the 19th June 2017.
- The lowest coin win you can land on the original Mega Moolah slot, paid for landing three of the Playing Card 10 symbols on a pay line.
Three
- May 2020 and June 2014 are the only two months on record that have both seen three Mega Moolah jackpot winners landed within the calendar month.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpots won in 2009, the first year that we saw multiple winners of the jackpot prize.
Four
- The number of confirmed Australian Dollar jackpot winners on the Mega Moolah slot.
- The number of winners of a jackpot prize of between 2 and 3 million and 8 and 9 million in the history of the slot.
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners won in each of 2012, 2013, 2016 and so far in 2020.
Five
- March, September and October have all produced five different Mega Moolah jackpot winners since the game began.
Six
- The number of winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot that have claimed their prize in New Zealand Dollars.
- The number of Mega Moolah top jackpot prizes won in 2014.
Seven
- The number of currencies in which Mega Moolah jackpot wins have been recorded (Canadian Dollars, US Dollars, Euro, British Pounds, New Zealand Dollars, Australian Dollars and South African Rand).
- The number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners landed in all of 2018.
- The number of Mega Moolah winners that landed a prize of between 5 and 6 million in their choice of currency.
- The number of Mega Moolah winners that have claimed their prize in both the months of April and November.
- The number of Mega Moolah games you can play at present; Mega Moolah, Isis, Summertime, 5-Reel Drive, Mega Vault Millionaire, Atlantean Treasures and Absolootly Mad.
Eight
- The luckiest time of the day to play Mega Moolah to win the jackpot prize is between 8pm and 9pm CET. Eight winners have landed their jackpot prize playing at this time, which is at least double the amount of winners in any other hour period during the course of the day.
- There have been eight winners of a jackpot prize of between 4 million and 5 million over the years on Mega Moolah.
- The number of US Dollar winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot in total.
Nine
- The number of British Pound winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot in total.
- The number of winners that have landed a prize of between 3 and 4 million in their own currency.
- The total number of Mega Moolah jackpot prize winners who have won cash prizes of 10 million or more.
- The total number of Mega Moolah jackpot winners that have claimed their prize in the month of June.
Ten
- The cheapest you can play a Mega Moolah slot for per spin, available on the Atlantean Treasures slot, although the spin will not be guaranteed to have a chance at landing a shot at the Jackpot Bonus Game.
Eleven
- The number of winners that have claimed a Mega Moolah top progressive jackpot prize in the month of May, the most popular month for Mega Moolah jackpot wins.
Twelve
- The number of symbols, including the Lion Wild and Scatter that were included on the original Mega Moolah slot.
Fourteen
- The number of Euro winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot in total.
Fifteen
- The luckiest date in Mega Moolah history is the 15th November, which has seen the jackpot won three times on this date over the years.
- The number of Free Spins you trigger each time you land the Free Spins bonus round on the original Mega Moolah slot.
Sixteen
- The number of people that have won a top Mega Moolah jackpot prize of between 1 million and 2 million.
Eighteen
- The age you need to be to play Mega Moolah in most locations in the world. In some this may be 21.
Twenty One
- The number of Canadian Dollar winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot since the game began.
Twenty Five
- The minimum amount of money you can spend on the original Mega Moolah slot for your bet to qualify for a chance to win the top progressive jackpot prize (in pence/cents). It is also the number of pay lines in play on the original Mega Moolah and Mega Vault Millionaire games.
Thirty Nine
- The number of winners of the Mega Moolah jackpot prize that have claimed their win via a mobile device. This number is an estimate and the actual figure could be higher or slightly lower than this amount.
Fifty Eight
- The number of jackpot winners we believe claimed their prize on the original Mega Moolah slot, although this figure should be taken with caution as it is an estimate.
Sixty Five
- The number of confirmed Mega Moolah top jackpot winners we have confirmed data of at the time of writing.
75,000 - The top win you could land in the Mega Moolah original slot in the base game, in coins.
225,000 - The top non-progressive jackpot prize on the original Mega Moolah slot in Free Spins mode.
1,000,000 - The amount at which the Mega Moolah top jackpot, the Mega jackpot, is seeded at (in British Pounds).
1,013,801 - The smallest amount ever won for a Mega Moolah progressive jackpot prize, which was won on the 26th June 2014 by a player using Canadian Dollars.
13,213,838 - The total amount won by UK-based player Jon Heywood on October 6th 2015 that was confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest ever win on an online progressive jackpot slot game in history.
20,059,287 - The largest single win in any currency, by purely numerical amount on the Mega Moolah slot. The win was landed on the 30th January 2019 by a player using Canadian Dollars as their currency.
149,112,333 - The total amount of top Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot prize money that has been paid out to all the 21 confirmed Canadian Dollar winners in the game's history. This amount is more than double the numerical value of the next highest currency, the Euro (69.6 million Euro).
1,100,000,000+ - Over 1.1 billion is the total amount of money that has been paid out so far across the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network, as verified by Microgaming in May 2020. This includes not only all winners on the Mega Moolah slot, of all four progressive jackpot prizes, but also all the other progressive jackpot games pay out since each one began.
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