Summary
- IGT has highlighted the three largest Wheel of Fortune and Powerbucks slot wins for May.
- Three individuals have become millionaires, with the top price exceeding $1.8 million.
- Over the past 30 years, IGT has created over 1,200 millionaires.
In May 2025, International Game Technology created three new millionaires through its Wheel of Fortune and Powerbucks slot games, leaving the winners in disbelief at their extraordinary luck.
IGT wraps up May with big jackpot winners
Both games mentioned are progressive jackpot titles that allocate a small portion of each wager to a grand prize. This prize feeds into a communal jackpot, which can be won by an individual player. Despite being available at various locations, these jackpots are often pooled from multiple machines or even different casinos. The winnings in May were fairly evenly distributed throughout the month. Early in the month, a fortunate player struck it big at the Gila River Resorts & Casinos – Santan Mountain in Chandler, Arizona. On May 3, this lucky casino visitor turned their wager on the Wheel of Fortune Triple Red Hot 7s Gold Spin slot into a $1,033,590 win. The winner, a veteran, experienced an unexpected stroke of luck after his wife, Betty, encouraged him to visit the casino and try the slot machines. He followed her suggestion, and it resulted in a significant win! We hadn’t planned on going to the casino, but we did, and now we're leaving with big winnings, said the anonymous winner. Another notable win occurred on May 17, when someone in Ontario, Canada, transformed their online bet on the Powerbucks game into CA$1,281,026 while playing the Wheel of Fortune Diamonds Deluxe Date Night. The largest win of the month was reported on May 23 at Michael Gaughan Airport Slots in Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas. Here, a player managed to win an astounding $1,816,406 on the Wheel of Fortune Triple Red Hot 7s Gold Spin game. This final win was not widely publicized and was mainly mentioned in an official company update that summarized the month's three major wins. IGT also highlighted the enduring success of the Wheel of Fortune slots, noting that since their introduction in 1996, these games have awarded over $3.6 billion in jackpots to more than 1,200 millionaires.
