Cruz Rivas Castro, from Central Valley has found out that he is the winner of a $750,000 prize after a journey he was carrying out to the Southland area to distribute fresh fish around markets in Los Angeles. During this trip, he and his driving partner decided to stop off for some coffee in Castiac and on the way they also went to the Pilot Travel Centre which is located at 31642 on Castiac Road – whilst here, Castro opted to purchase a California Lottery Scratchers ticket as he was feeling lucky that day, so he chose a few Mystery Crossword Scratchers. Getting back into the truck, he was in the middle of scratching the second ticket when he realized that he’d landed some big money!

A man from Lincoln County - in Kansas has luckily been able to get his $1,000,000 lottery prize back after a clerk at a gas station went out of his way to get the ticket back to its original owner. The winner, who has opted to remain anonymous explained how he was in a rush on his way to watch a NCAA tournament when him and his brother chose to stop for gas at a station located in Salina. “My brother went in to check my tickets. He apparently dropped the unsigned Mega Millions ticket, and then we left to go back home”. What a close call these set of events were, lucky for the winner – the clerk immediately called up the store owner as soon as he’d realized what had happened to check if they would be able to locate the winner and return the ticket to him. The store owner sent his son in, who aided them in travelling to find the winner – and conveniently, the winner and his brother were out on another errand when the owner’s son got them to pull over. The retailer will also be receiving a $1,000 financial incentive just for selling the winning ticket!

William Woolsey, from Kane in Illinois has found out that he is the sole winner of a $550,000 Lottery prize out of the blue! Woolsey, purchased his Quick Pick Illinois Lottery ticket from Circle K, which is located on 13 S. Stanley Road in Cottage Hills and soon found out that the Lucky Day Lotto ticket matched up all 5 numbers, which were: 8, 11, 18, 24 and 31. A great win for Woolsey, who has now made plans to purchase a home as well as investing the rest. The retailer will also receive a $5,500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

John Scroggs, and his husband Paul Robles are feeling super lucky after landing a lottery prize with the Powerball Lottery worth $307,406 – this is the return on matching five out of six lottery numbers. Scroggs, 47 bought the ticket, which was a Quick Pick from a CVS store which is located at 2151 on Meeker Avenue in Richmond – and came to find that this lucky ticket matched the numbers of: 36, 6, 19, 13 and 51 just shy of the red Powerball number 18. He checked the ticket at a Check-A-Ticket machine and recalled how he stood there motionless in reaction to the prize money amount, “I immediately went kind of pale, I thought, this is not real” he recalled.

Terry Southard, from Rolla was simply out to get a meal from Kroger when he decided to buy a $20 Missouri Lottery Scratchers ticket on his trip at the store. The ticket was the $5,000,000 Big Money game ticket, and after realizing he’d won some kind of prize – he used the Lottery app on his phone multiple times to really validate the $100,000 win! Southard, then had to call his wife to come and get him because he was experiencing all kinds of shaking and heart tremors from the news. “we’ll go to the mall and buy some new clothes” he said, as well as explaining that they may also get their dogs some little treats too.

Jacqueline Denton, from Waycross in Atlanta is sure having the best birthday after winning a $25,000 prize! Denton, was on her lunch break at work – where she is employed as a housekeeper in a nursing home when she was getting some food and decided to grab a ticket from the N & R Food Mart, which is located at Gordon St. in Blackshear. The ticket she chose in the end, was a $1,000,000 777 Slots of Luck scratchers ticket which is part of the Georgia Lottery. 

Tyson DeJaynes, who is from Abingdon is sure going to be thanking his grandmother after finding out that her lottery present to him, was worth $75,000! His grandmother, purchased the ticket – which was an Ultimate Crossword ticket for him from Casey’s General Store which is located at 101 S. Monroe St. in Abingdon. When he decided to scratch it off one morning, he was convinced that he had only won $50 – however later on he ended up checking the ticket 6 more times and concluded that it was actually $75,000!