Would you believe it, that for the 4th time in the history of the United States, the lottery jackpot has skyrocketed to an all-time high of a whopping $600,000,000! Imagine, there's the very real possibility of someone practically becoming a billionaire overnight from purchasing a Powerball lottery ticket which matches up all the winning numbers, including the Powerball number. The lottery prize has increased by a whole $68.5 million from $541,9 million after no winning tickets were sold, meaning the only time other than this that the lottery jackpot grew so much, was back in 2016 with the record-breaking $1,600,000,000 prize which occurred on January 13th 2016 and was shared among 3 different winners from Florida, California and Tennessee. The current jackpot is worth $600,000,000 at the moment, it’s a result of 20 consecutive draws without any significant winners, which started out as a $40 million jackpot on the 14th of June. 

Jackie, and Rande a couple from New Jersey are feeling very grateful for their lottery prize of $1,000,000 as it has arrived at the time they needed it most. The couple, from Long Branch have been married for almost 17 years now and have had to face numerous challenges throughout their lives, their biggest challenge; having to raise their three young grandchildren after their daughter lost the battle with Lupus (a type of arthritis) and sadly passed away. Luckily, on March 31^st they realized that their Mega Millions lottery ticket matched all five white balls, giving them a sum of $1 million dollars. Their friend Debbie, who drove them to the Lottery headquarters to claim their prize stated, "They are the most deserving people in New Jersey. They have helped so many other people in their times of need and now it is their turn to receive this very necessary blessing". 

Rosa Dominguez, 19 has received a double dose of luck all within one week of her life! Dominguez, was on her way home from Arizona when she decided to stop off at a gas station called Eagle Energy which was located in Paso Robles, California. She decided to try her hand at a few lottery scratch off tickets, one of which was a $5 Power 5's ticket worth a monumental amount of $555,555! Speaking about how this win made her feel, she stated "I was so nervous, I just wanted to cry". Not long after, Dominguez was still astonished by the huge amount of money that was now hers and decided to pursue another potential win, she bought just one $5 Lucky Fortune ticket from Valero gas station and landed the top prize of $100,000 with the California Lottery!

Richard Maciel, from Orange County sure is feeling great after landing a whole $10,000,000 through a lottery prize. Maciel was on his way to the office when he decided to stop off at the Cypress Smoke Shop which is located at 4041 Ball Road, in Cyprus in order to grab a quick cigar. An impulse purchase, he also decided to pick up a California Gold Scratchers ticket and scratch it straight away in the shop. Instantly seeing zero, after zero on the lottery ticket, a customer next to him said "Look, you won ten thousand dollars", Maciel said "no" and the man said "Oh, that's one hundred thousand dollars" but it was actually worth 10 times that amount, the top prize offered by the lottery game. "Then things got a little noisy to the point where it drew a crowd" Maciel recalled, there was so much celebration that the Cypress Police arrived at the scene shortly after as they thought that something crime related may be happening. 

Kelvin Wynn, 57 from Iowa has just won a compound lottery prize worth $300,000 in total after following multiple signs from the universe, which drew him towards a particular number. His story started when he had a dream that he'd entered a hotel room which was the number 2112, in addition, Wynn works for a landscaping business and found that one of his clients' addresses happened to be this same number. The signs didn't stop there, stopping at a red light he noticed the registration plate of the car in front of him had 2112 as part of the plate and when purchasing a number of items at the store – the total ran up to $21.12. The couple say the majority of the winnings will go towards financing their children's college education, aside from a few new golf clubs for Kelvin!

Estela Arias, has just become Powerball's latest lottery winner after claiming her prize money worth almost half a million! Her ticket had matched up five of the six numbers: 45, 5, 47, 54, and 22, missing only the Powerball number 3 which would have landed her the maximum jackpot of $228 million. Aries' quite quickly went into the California Lottery's Santa Ana office to claim her prize, which was actually a whole $480,287. "I feel nervous, excited, a little bit of everything. You never think you're going to win that much money. It still doesn't feel real, not until I have my check". Arias, has had a dream come true, now having all that money at her disposal to fulfil anything she's ever wanted to buy, or try. Luck has certainly worked in her favor!

A man who has chosen to remain anonymous, from Michigan has just come forward to claim not his first, but his SECOND large lottery prize all within 18 months of winning the first one! Back in 2016, he'd previously won a Fantasy 5 Lottery Prize worth $125,000 after discovering he was one of the two winners who'd matched up the lottery numbers for the Tuesday draw of $416,450.