Sarah Mercardo would never have predicted that a trip to the gas station with her aunt would have led to a $10 million-dollar win. Mercardo’s aunt was about to go into a 7-Eleven which is located at 615 S Tustin Street in Orange county to pay for gas, so Mercado gave her some money to purchase a few lottery tickets. They were actually on their way to a relative’s funeral, and at the time Mercado was having a very difficult time at home as things were so intense. When checking the $10 Million Dazzler game, she found the number 16 – which is her favourite as it relates to the date of her birthday was a winning number, along with other winning numbers. 

A couple from Silverdale, finally stepped forward 2 weeks after the win was announced to claim their $7.2 million prize with Powerball. The married couple who remained anonymous, purchased their ticket from Pak N Save, which is located in Silverdale but left the ticket aside without checking it, even after they heard that someone had won as they didn’t think it was them, “The win was all over Facebook, so you really couldn’t miss it” the woman exclaimed. Even when her husband asked her if she’d heard about the Powerball win, she sarcastically took the ticket out of her handbag and threw it around in the air saying “Yup, this is the winning ticket” before putting it away with a stack of previously bought tickets. The next few weeks were filled with talk of what the couple would have done, who they would have given aid to, had they been the winners, ironic isn’t it! ...

 Stanley Shelby, from Salem in Massachusetts did not expect to win $20,000 or even realise that was the amount he’d won for quite a while. Shelby, originally purchased a $5 Fireball 7s ticket in Rolla, to find he’d won a $40 prize – so, he decided to use that money to buy another one of those tickets from Casey’s general store which is located at 201 S. Main Street in Salem as he was in the area for business. The second ticket he bought, he found showed 5X $1,000 whilst the other number 7: showed $5,000 – although he’d actually got this misconstrued and his prize was worth double that, $20,000! The couple said they will be using the prize money to pay off bills, and to buy another car. For this couple, taking a risk on buying another ticket was certainly worth it.

A man from Sydney, Australia, recently found out that he was the sole winner of an AU $3.5 million, (US $2.5 million) prize, however he disclosed that he already knew this was going to happen as he had a premonition in a dream. The lucky man, who has opted to remain anonymous described how he bought the 2-SET entry ticket from the Wareemba News agency which is located at 276 Great North Road in Wareeemba, and prior to this, a few weeks back he said that he had a dream where he won with Set for life. Shortly after, he was on the beach with his wife when he suddenly grabbed her and said “We are about to win something, you just wait” and win they did! They won a huge prize, and opted for monthly pay-outs of $20,000 a month for 20 years over the lump-sum pay-out. 

Dani Krutsinger, 29, from Chariton in Lucas County bought a different lottery ticket to the one she usually buys and ended up winning $50,000! Krutsinger, bought a pair of the new Extreme Cash Blast scratch-off tickets from Casey’s which is located at 1421 Court Ave in Chariton after her favourite game was sold out and unexpectedly, she won the top prize in the game. Barry Ritter, from Charlotte couldn’t be happier after finding out his Cash 5 ticket was valued at $121,323.

Ritter, works at Harris Teeter part-time, and stopped nearby to buy himself a beer and a Powerball ticket from Circle K which is located at Christenbury Parkway in Concord. Whilst in the line of the store, something swayed him to play Cash 5, which isn’t a game he usually plays, but purchased it regardless before leaving it in his car and forgetting about it. Following on, a few days after he remembered it and used his phone to scan the ticket but it wasn’t till he had a look on the website that he saw that he had matched 5 numbers and was shocked. 

Anissa Dellaripa, 22, from South Windsor in Connecticut has just started her graduation life with a $2,000 a month head-start after being gifted a lottery ticket by her Dad. Dellaripa was given the $1 Win for Life Ticket from the Connecticut Lottery and told to scratch it as her Dad handed it over, she explained that he regularly buys her lottery tickets but this time was a reward for all the work she’d put in. She scratched off the ticket, and saw the “WIN FOR LIFE” symbol, at first thinking her dad must have been pranking her because there’s no way it was real! But it was, and she was given the option of either receiving a lump sum of $400,000 or the $2,000 a month for life. 

A lottery pool 11 of people who work together, or previously worked at the Northern Valley Indian Health have come forward to claim a Powerball ticket worth $4,900,000. The winners include: Emilio Montoya, Jack Cook, Janine Cullar, John Cunningham, Deborah Harrington, Karen Hughes, Brandi McFarland, Irma Peralta, Sherron Prosser and Ebelia Villegas, and they’ve all been playing together for over 4 years now – they each chip in $3 a week to buy SuperLotto Plus and Powerball tickets. Cuellar said she sees a glimmer of hope every time she walks past someone with an unscratched lottery ticket as there is always that chance that they have won. This time the ticket was bought by Montoya from Duke’s Cork N Bottle Shop, located at 2360 Esplanade in Chico, they discovered the next day that the ticket matched all the numbers of: 5, 38, 22, 58 and 32 – which were originally randomly generated, but they continued to use those numbers from that period forward.