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! 

Dennis Banfield, 87, and his wife Shirley, 83 who are from Bristol have become the UK lottery’s oldest winners after finding out that they had bought a lottery ticket worth £18,000,000. It was Shirley Banfield, who opted to buy a ticket from their local newsagent which was a line of Lucky Dip numbers for the Saturday night, and the following morning it was her husband who had come to find that they had won! On that morning, Shirley was reading out the lottery numbers which had been picked from the previous night and said to her husband, “Who’d have those numbers?” and ironically, he had to break it to her that those were the numbers on their ticket. There were so pleased with the good news, with Dennis being filled with all kinds of different emotions when he tried to fathom exactly what this win could mean to his family. 

A group of four friends, who’ve been friends for life as well as being a team in playing the lottery have just become the latest winners of $7.7 million with the Hoosier Lottery! The group of friends who are from Indianapolis, have decided to claim their prize under “2018 Global Partners LLC” to maintain anonymity and explained that they are all from blue collar backgrounds. This time around, ironically, they won their prize after receiving a free ticket which they were given due to a previous drawing – and ended up matching all 6 numbers. “It’s pretty amazing to get one free ticket and actually win this amount of money” one of the winners explained.