Linda, from Colorado was definitely not expecting to find out that she’d won the lottery after going through her losing tickets, that she was hoping to enter in for the second-chance draw. Linda, purchased her lottery ticket back in July, from a Safeway store in Firestone – the ticket was a $50 Series game – The Golden Jubilee. She went on to scratch the ticket later on, however nothing stood out to her that made her believe that the ticket was a winner – therefore, following her usual routine the ticket went into the growing pile of losing tickets that she hoped she’d win a Second-chance prize on. A few months on, Linda finally gathered up all her losing tickets and used the Colorado’s Lottery’s app to scan them – however the app rejected her Golden Jubilee ticket. Intrigued, taking a closer look, she realized that this ticket was worth $3,000,000 -which is the top prize in the game! 

In a very coincidental turn of events, Michelle Shuffler from Granite Falls has won two lottery prizes in one day, one worth $10,000 and the other worth $1,000,000. This is the second time, that someone has won the lottery twice in one day in the past three weeks! Shuffler, purchased her first ticket at the Cubbard Express which is located at Beecher Anderson Road in Lenoir after stopping off there with her husband. She explained that she, and her husband don’t usually play the lottery, however at the last minute her husband made an impulse buy with a ticket after finding some spare cash on him. The ticket was a Million Dollar Fever ticket, and upon scratching it they realized the ticket was worth $10,000! Now, after feeling that fate was on their side, they went on to purchase another scratch-off ticket from the Murphy Express, which is located on Hickory Boulevard in Granite falls which is around 22 miles away from the first ticket location and found that this second ticket was worth 100 times more.

Kevin Hayek, from Kansas almost lost his $50,000 lottery ticket before finally managing to locate it in the trash can! Hayek, plays Powerball very regularly but admits he often doesn’t check his tickets, last Wednesday he stopped off at a convenience store whilst getting his daily coffee. He stopped off at Kwik Shop 789, which is located at 746 NE Wabash Avenue in Topeka and finally felt the urge to check his tickets from the drawing on October 18^th, when scanning the ticket using the machine, he suddenly saw a very long claim form coming out which was handed to him by the clerk. Hayek went off to work as usual, and it wasn’t until he started reading through the form with a co-worker he realized he was missing the item he needed to claim his prize: the winning ticket itself! “When I realized I didn’t have the ticket, I hopped back into the truck and went back to the store. The clerk had accidently thrown it away with the non-winning ticket,” he exclaimed. 

Kimberly Morris, from North Carolina has beat the lottery odds after happening to win the lottery twice in one day! Morris, first purchased ticket from her local Harris Teeter store in Wake Forest, the ticket was a Diamond Dazzler scratch-off ticket which has a top prize of $4,000,000 available. Upon scratching the ticket, Morris came to realise that this particular ticket was worth $10,000 in prize money, and happily went on to collect her prize at the North Carolina lottery headquarters which were located in Raleigh. Following this, the win did not stop Morris in trying her luck with scratchers tickets as she went on to buy another Diamond Dazzler ticket, this time she realized her didn't just win another $10,000, but a whole $1,000,000 prize! Morris, has opted to receive her prize as a lump sum of $600,000, which will be worth $417,012 after tax and government withholdings over the gradual instalments of $50,000 to receive the full $1,000,000 amount. 

Woody Simmons, from Maryland had been screaming in his car after finding out that he'd won a huge jackpot of $10,000,000 with a Virginia lottery scratch-off game. Simmons, who is employed by the U.S. Postal Service recently stopped off at a local Woodbridge convenience store after noticing a sign he had never seen before about Extreme Millions, which is a new lottery game. He went in and ended up purchasing just a single ticket after thinking, "well, let me take a chance", succeeding this he scratched off the ticket in his car and realized he'd won and spent the next few minutes screaming with the windows up in his car. Ironically, even with all this excitement he was feeling, he went on with his day not telling anyone about the good news, not at work, and not even to his wife! When he finally did decide to tell his wife, she didn't believe him until he went back to the store, Optimax Service centre to claim his prize. 

Eliseo Gutierrez, 58 from Los Angeles County is very thankful to God, after finding out that he had won almost $1 million dollars with a Mega Millions ticket. Gutierrez, purchased his ticket at the Chevron Service Station, which is at 206 North Vincent Avenue in West Covina and managed to match five of the six numbers in the draw of: 18, 26, 44, 30 and 22, however he did end up missing the Mega number 9 which would have given him a $113,000,000 prize had he also chosen it. Yet, he certainly isn't complaining, stating that "This is a blessing" and that the $906,649 prize he will be receiving is more than substantial for him. 

Thomas Grimme, from White Rock in British Columbia has become one of the very few people to have won a $400,000 lottery prize with the Washington Lottery which typically only pays out $10,000 prizes. Grimme, purchased 40 Match 4 tickets at the Cost Cutter Grocery which is located in Blaine, choosing the same four numbers on all of them which were: 4, 8, 17 and 24. This meant that when those four numbers were drawn, each one of his tickets was worth $10,000 – something that statistician views as a phenomenon as the chance of this happening was around 1 in 10,600 chances. However, in addition to this, Christian Hansen, a professor and department chairman of Eastern Washington University's Mathematics Department stated that he doesn't understand why Grimme purchased 40 tickets with the same four numbers, as the odds for him winning were the same had he bought 1 ticket or 40. Grimme would likely to maintain his privacy, and therefore hasn't disclosed personal plans on how he is going to spend the winnings.