Friday, 28th September 2018 a new record online jackpot was broken when a lucky player, wagering on the Microgaming Mega Moolah progressive slot game managed to hit the Mega Jackpot on the game that resulted in the player winning an enormous cash prize of $18,015,721.

The punter’s massive new record breaking win surpasses the amount of $13,212,882 that was won a couple of years ago at Betway Online Casino.

The online casino that hosted this latest Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot win has not yet been named. The prize will, however, set off a great PR blitz for both Microgaming and the online casino.

A day before this latest Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot win, NetEnt’s Mega Fortune Mega Jackpot was hit for an amount of €3.4 million.

Players can hit Microgaming’s Mega Moolah Mega Jackpot on quite a few different slot games and is awarded completely randomly. The slot game pays out an average amount of $5,358,744 approximately every 9 weeks.

Mega Moolah Mega is a progressive slots jackpot that players could win at online casinos that offer slot games from Microgaming.

The jackpot is four progressive jackpots in one – the Mega Moolah Mega, Major, Minor and Mino in descending order of size.

The Mega Moolah Mega jackpot is seeded at $1,000,000 and players who win the Mega jackpot are, therefore, guaranteed to be an instant millionaire.

Mega Moolah was initially released on a single cartoon Safari-themed slot game and can be played on a number of different slots including Mega Moolah Isis, Mega Moolah Summertime and Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive.