Shane Missler, a 20-year-old from Florida may not be of the legal age to drink yet, however he is old enough to win the latest Mega Millions jackpot worth a staggering $451,000,000. Missler, originally purchased his ticket from a 7-Eleven which is located at 7131 Ridge Rd. in Port Richey which is in close vicinity of Pasco County. When finding out that he’d won, he says that he wasn’t too surprised as he had a feeling that he might – he found out that he had matched up all the winning numbers on the draw which were: 28, 30, 39, 59, 70 as well as the Mega Ball number 10! Following this, he called up his brother immediately and also posted on Facebook saying “Oh. My. God” revealing astonishment – soon after catching up with his father to let him know of the good news over coffee. 

Thomas Lewis, who is from Channahon is sure glad he listened to the advice of those around him after winning a $1,300,000 prize with the Illinois Lottery! Lewis, says that he was at USA Liquors, which is located at 25228 W. Reed Street in Channahon and decided to purchase a Lucky Day Quick Pick ticket after everyone was telling him that, that was the ticket he should go for. After buying the ticket, he soon realized that he matched up all of the winning numbers which were: 14, 18, 27, 31 and 45. “It feels meant to be” he exclaimed, the win came at the perfect time for him as he was just in the midst of purchasing a new house, as well as a holiday with his family to Disney World! 

There is one very lucky individual, from New Hampshire who has unknowingly landed the huge jackpot of $559.7 million with the Powerball lottery. The owner of this ticket, purchased it from Reeds Ferry Market – which is a small store located in Merrimack which is in New Hampshire and not too far from Concord. The lottery ticket, was drawn on Saturday night and the winning numbers were: 12, 29, 30, 33 and 61 as well as the Powerball number 26, the winner of this drawing will now have the opportunity to choose between receiving the money as either a lump-sum of $352 million or instead gradual instalments of 30 payments over a period of 29 years! 

Jack Hudley, from Chesterfield may have won the top prize of $2,500 a month for 20 years – however this sure won’t be changing who he is as a person. It was a Saturday morning, when Hudley was on his way to work as a plumbing contractor when he decided to stop off at Belmont Market, which is located at 6100 Belmont Road in Chesterfield and purchase a 20 Years of Cash ticket, sold by the Virginia Lottery. After claiming his prize, this didn’t change his routine and Hudley continued his journey to work – “I’m a humble man, by nature” he explained. 

Laura Prado, from Holcomb is sure going to enjoy a positive start to 2018 after winning the first top prize of $100,000 with the Missouri Lottery! Prado, purchased her “Big Money” Scratchers ticket whilst she was out shopping for the day at The Junction, which is located at 419 Church St. in Holcomb at the beginning of December. “Whatever catches my eye and stands out to me? That’s the ones I buy”. Funnily enough, although this ticket clearly caught her eye enough to purchase it, when she checked to see if it was a winner – she thought she may have been seeing things and put her glasses on, and sure enough after fully scratching the ticket the winning figure was revealed. 

The people of Spain, are likely feeling just that little bit more excited than everyone else as millions are participate in the famous annual lottery draw called “El Gordo”. The lottery game, that is often referred to as “The Fat one” is going to be handing out over $2.4 billion euros in prizes this year – although it is called a lottery, the way it works is much more like a raffle as the money is given out to thousands of winning tickets. The top prize that is available per winning ticket is $400,000, following some smaller prizes too. The game costs $20 euros to play, however this $20 does not buy just one ticket -but instead this is broken into 10 smaller parts called “Decimos” which are $2 euros each, so following this your single decimo could land a top prize of $40,000 euros. 

Steven W., from Fort Collins has started his Christmas holidays with the best present he could have possibly received: a $3,000,000 top prize with the Colorado Lottery. Steven, purchased his lottery ticket on Tuesday from the Schrader’s Country Store, which is located at College Avenue - on Harmony Road, the ticket he bought was the $50 Scratch-off game called Bankroll Blast which had only been released the day before his win! His winning ticket happened to be the very first one in the pack, and after removing the coating he realized just how much he’d won from an impulse buy.