Keith Wurtz, and his wife Karman have been filled with laughter following the revelation that they had won over $100,000 with the Missouri Lottery. Wurtz, purchased the Cash Craze ticket from Fuel Expresso which is located at 1317 SW Market Street, in Lee Summit after the clerk working at the gas station asked if he wanted to play! So, he walked away with 4 tickets, costing $10 total. At home he scratched the first two to find they were worthless, but he didn’t lose hope as he had faith that at some point surely his luck was going to change? He was right, when he scratched the rest he saw that he had won two lots of $5,000, however that wasn’t all – as he kept scratching, more and more prizes were uncovered on the ticket’s which accumulated to $100,000! 

Anthony Vottero, a retired veteran from Indianapolis had a very different attitude from many when finding out that he had won $900,000 with the Hoosier Lottery. A lot of people who win, may start planning all of the material things that they are going to buy for themselves e.g. a new car or a boat, but not Anthony. Anthony purchased his ticket from the Meijer C-Stop which is located at 6060 U.S. Highway 6 in Portage, and explained that he buys tickets every so often, this time he went to his truck and started scratching it off to see many zeros in front of him. “This can’t be real” he thought to himself before going back into the store to get a worker to double-check the ticket, who said “Please don’t have a heart attack” before handing it over, confirming the $900,000 win...

Fred Bastardo, from Kings County has been making some huge life decisions since finding out that he had won $750,000 with the California Lottery. Bastardo, must have been feeling both stubborn and determined when he decided to go into El Ranchero Liquor which is located at 11998 South 10th Avenue in Hanford- Kings County as he purchased ticket, after ticket when finding the ticket wasn’t a winner, this went on until he was on the fifth ticket and said “Ok, if I don’t win I’m done”, but 5th time lucky he found himself as the $10 Mystery Crossword Scratchers was worth a huge $750,000! He told his girlfriend right away, and the same day they went in to the California Lottery’s Fresno headquarters to claim their winnings...

It was an office pool, a whim purchase of lottery ticket’s which lead to 11 co-workers winning the grand $543,000,000 prize with the Mega Millions Lottery! The group, are from Santa Clara County and work in the financial industry, they have chosen to keep their identities anonymous apart from Roland Reyes, who stepped forward on behalf of the group to claim the money. The group of people in the pool, range from 21 to 60 in age, and say they do not regularly play in a pool; however, this occasion was different as the jackpot rolled so high, they all decided to pitch in $2 a piece and purchase tickets from a small business owner. This was because Reyes believed they would have the best chances from a local ownership store, over a chain brand so he chose Ernie’s Liquors in the end which is located at 2808 South White Road which is in San Jose, Santa Clara County. 

Fred, 67 and Lesley Higgins, 57 a retired couple from Scotland almost threw away their $67 million prize after being told that the ticket wasn’t a winner. Fred, is a regular lottery player and explained the story of how he popped into Scotmid which is located on Laurencekirk High Street and purchased a EuroMillions tickets before proceeding to give it to the man working at the shop to put through the machine, however the machine told them that the ticket wasn’t a winner so he ripped it in half and discarded it. Suddenly, the machine produced a message saying that they would need to contact the operator which is Camelot – so the clerk retrieved it from the bin and handed their ticket back. The ticket was now in two pieces, but the matching numbers could still be seen, which were: 3, 8.26, 33, 45 and Lucky Stars numbers 7 and 10 when he checked on the lottery website...

An anonymous individual, from San Jose in California has matched up all six lottery numbers to win a $522 Million with Mega Millions after a long, hugely anticipated drawing. This person, who has not yet stepped forward to claim their prize, purchased their ticket from Ernie's Liquors which is located at 2808 S White Rd. In San Jose and the ticket matched the numbers: 1, 2, 4, 19, 29 and Mega Ball number 20 as well as the Megaplier of 3 which totals up to a staggering $543,000,000 prior to taxation and other fees. This jackpot is the 9th largest jackpot in the US ever, and the 3rd largest of all the Mega Millions drawings, as a lump sum this prize will be worth around $320.5 million compared to the full pay-out over a set amount of years. 

Scott Williams, the owner of a barbershop in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis was left smiling after finding out he had won a $50,000 lottery prize with the Hoosier Lottery unexpectedly. Williams, told the story of how he was cutting the hair of one client when a customer called him to notify him that his lottery numbers of: 1-1-1-1 had come up in the last drawing, "Everyone knows I play" he explained and also outlined that he had been playing those same numbers for the past year after changing them from 1-4-0-1 which was based on the location of his barbershop. But he still didn't see this success coming, and is very happy with his new choice of numbers!