It had to happen soon enough – Microgaming’s massive Mega Moolah game has just crowned its first jackpot winner of 2022.

The Isle of Man-based slots behometh published a press release this morning to announce that one lucky spinner had just scooped a prize of €7,296,286.88.

That is the equivalent of £6,081,168.24 at today’s exchange rate!!

This is the 70^th time the top prizes had paid out and it makes an instant millionaire of the winner who received their prize in a lump sum.

To mark the occasions the big guns are out and Microgaming’s CEO had this to say: “Fantastic to see the first Mega Moolah win of the year, particularly as it’s another sizeable seven-figure sum – huge congratulations to the winner! An amazing 15 years after taking its first bet, the mighty Mega Moolah slot continues to be extremely popular and pay out massive wins such as this Mega €7.3 million* reward. Long may that continue!”

If you fancy your chances of this blockbuster progressive jackpot slot then you can have a go yourself at becoming the next Mega Moolah millionaire by spinning the reels at any slot sites in our listings that features Microgaming slots.

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More About Mega Moolah

Mega Moolah takes its place amongst the biggest progressive slots of all time. It’s been creating millionaire winners since its launch back in November 2006. Since then it has paid out in excess of €919 million including a record-breaking €18.9 million prize to one punter back in 2018.

The Mega Moolah jackpot is networked across a series of games. The original has an African Savannah theme to it, but others include:

• Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah
• Absolootly Mad Mega Moolah
• Fortunium Gold Mega Moolah
• Mega Moolah Isis

Other popular progressive jackpots worth your time include Mega Fortune and Mega Fortune Dreams by NetEnt and the new Megapays series from Big Time Gaming.