So, imagine you’re 20 years old, living a regular life in Carlisle, and suddenly the universe decides to throw £7.5 million your way. What do you do? Quit your job, buy a superyacht, and spend your days sipping o-verpriced cocktails? If you’re James Clarkson, apparently not.

Sometimes, life throws you curveballs. Other times, it throws you a rude driver cutting you off on the highway. For one Maryland man, that annoyance turned into a $500,000 windfall—because he used the driver’s license plate numbers to play the lottery.

Let’s be real: most of us buy lottery tickets with about as much faith as we have in Santa Claus. But sometimes, the universe—or in this case, a $20 scratch-off ticket—delivers.

Take Darla Carpenter from New Hampton, Iowa. On Christmas morning, while the rest of us were faking excitement over socks and bath bombs, Darla scratched her way to a quarter-million-dollar miracle. Her husband had slipped a “Winter Winnings” lottery ticket into her stocking. Boom. $250K. Jackpot.

So, imagine this: you finally hit the jackpot—literally. After years of playing the lottery with the same numbers your kids picked ages ago, you win big. Half of a $395 million Mega Millions jackpot lands in your lap. Sounds like a fairy tale, right? But hold up. What if the other half of the jackpot also belongs to you… but you can’t prove it?

Welcome to the wild world of Faramarz Lahijani.

Imagine this: You’ve got a winning lottery ticket in your hands—half of a $395 million Mega Millions jackpot. That’s $197.5 million, just waiting to make your wildest dreams come true. And yet, here we are, one day away from poof—gone. Forever. What gives?

CHICAGO, Ill. — Here’s a story that’s going to give you all the feels and maybe a little lottery envy. An Illinois man just scooped up a $650,000 Lucky Day Lotto jackpot. But this wasn’t just dumb luck — he believes it was something deeper.

Alright, folks, let’s talk about luck—and how one woman in Washington managed to weaponize it to the tune of $180,000 in a single day. Yeah, you read that right. She didn’t just win the lottery; she won it 18 freaking times in the same drawing.