A man who has chosen to remain anonymous, from South Carolina has managed to win the lottery, not once but TWICE! The man purchased his tickets from the Food Lion which is located on Highway 9 in Longs in hope of winning the huge $447 million Powerball drawing. He opened the first ticket on a Monday night, to discover it was worth $100,000, and then on the morning after, he checked a different Powerball ticket which also had a prize of $100,000! 

Antionette Andrews, from Lakeland has just won a $1,000,000 lottery prize with the Florida lottery following a $20 gamble on the $5 million Monopoly game. Now, what you may not have known is that Andrews was the girlfriend of Abraham Shakespeare, a lottery winner who was murdered after winning $17,000,000 back in 2006! "It still doesn't seem real" she exclaimed talking about the coincidence. Here's the full story..

Reyna Gonzalez has flipped her life around through flipping four quarters into a $500,000 prize! Gonzalez went into Town & Country Liquor, which is located at 1733 7^th Street in Mendota (Fresno County) as she was feeling lucky that day with scratchers tickets. Speaking about the thoughts she experienced she stated "Is it true? Is this real?". Now Gonzalez has plans to help her parents with paying off their mortgage, as well as going on to purchase a home for herself.

A year ago, the Smith Family from Trenton won a lottery prize worth $429.6 million with the Powerball Lottery. The family is made up of Pearlie Mae Smith and 7 adult children, and they made a very interesting and thoughtful use of their winnings. Unlike many winners who decide to spend their money of luxury mansions, expensive new cars, and dishing out money to those who suddenly reappear into their lives after the win, they decided to use their newfound wealth to establish the Smith Family Foundation, a grantmaking fund. "We're making an investment in our community and when you make an investment you expect a return, so we want to see what the social return is going to be, what the educational return is going to be, what the transformations in people's lives is going to be".

Jesse Vonderhorst, 36 who is an army soldier based in Fort Drum has just landed a $5 million dollar prize with the New York Lottery! Vonderhorst purchased the scratch-off ticket at the Sunoco, which is located on Factory street in Watertown while he was there to fill up his car at the gas station. He opted for the Wild Bonanza Multiplier ticket which was $25, as he'd heard there'd been a recent local winner. "I like to play the higher-priced tickets,", "I had played enough of the $30 tickets. I hadn't played the Wild Bonanza Multiplier in a while so I took a chance". He scratched off the ticket as he got back to his car, and realized he'd won, "I was in shock when I saw the $5,000,000 prize.

Marquis Jones, from Long Beach decided to purchase a few lottery tickets after picking up on signs from the Universe. Jones, had just turned 40 when he noticed a sign inside Pacific Market, which is located on 2990 Pacific Avenue stating that Powerball's current jackpot was $40,000,000, he had a feeling that he should definitely play it and see what happens. Following this, using the significant number 4 he bought $4 worth of Powerball tickets on April the 4^th, what a coincidence!

A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $61 million has just been sold in Laguna Hills, which is the state of California. The winner is unknown at the moment as they have not stepped forward to claim their win, however we do know that the ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven which is located at 27001 Moulton Parkway. They matched up all six numbers which were: 6, 13, 18, 20, and 31 with Mega Ball number 13. This individual will now have the option of receiving their money as either a lump sum of $37.3 million or as gradual instalments which will accumulate to the full amount of $61 million over a period of 29 years.