WowPot has been on our radar here at GamblersPick.com since it started doling out multi-million Euros wins back in 2021. Our first big news piece about Mega Moolah’s little sibling was back in September 2021 when the Ancient Fortunes: Poseidon WowPot Megaways slot paid out €3.8 million at Videoslots Casino.

However, the WowPot progressive jackpot really came into its own in 2023 and took its rightful place as the world's highest-paying online progressive jackpot, with an astronomical payout of $42,149,180 (€38,527,511.71) in the last 20 hours!

We want to say congratulations to the mystery winner. Have a very Merry Christmas and a smashingly Happy New Year!

The Jackpot That Teased The World

While  WowPot took the limelight from its Guinness World Record-holding peer in 2023, it did so based on constant multi-million Euros payouts rather than delivering one single jaw-dropping prize.

Early in its rise to fame, it foreshadowed that this would not always be the case with an impressive one-time win of €17,529,047 on the Book of Atem WowPot slot. However, the network would not come close to those 2021 heights again for another two years, while Mega Moolah had multiple payouts exceeding that value to its name.

This year was a turning point in the debate around whether it would surpass Mega Moolah as the Jackpot King, with WowPot quietly exceeding the incredible prize pool value of €42,000,000!

The Jackpot Countdown Begins Anew

As we are so ahead of the pack with this announcement, there has yet to be any official news on who the player is, which instant slot they player or even which casino hosted the player. We only have the records related to the jackpot itself, but we will update the story as more information becomes available.

All we do know is that despite the record-breaking and ultimately life-changing jackpot that has just been claimed, the WowPot prize pool is already back up to over €8.8 million. In most other instances when a progressive jackpot is won, it tends to slow down for a while, not WowPot; we have seen an increase in activity as that jackpot ticker spins furiously, pushing the prize pool back up towards €10 million and perhaps another mega jackpot winner!