In the run up to Christmas, someone has clearly been feeling the spirit after donating a lottery ticket worth $100,000 to a church. The Massachusetts lottery ticket was given to Saint Anthony' Shrine, bringing an air of positivity after this church was robbed in the beginning of December. Father Thomas Conway, spoke about this anonymous benefactor stating, "He's really really touched people and inspired them and made them feel better about humanity to tell you the truth"

Jose Gomez, 76 from Hanover Park has landed a top prize of $75,000 with the Illinois Lottery Crossword game. Gomez purchased the ticket at Army Trail Gas and Food, located at 2100 W. Army Trail Road in Addison. He stated, "I like this game because it's entertaining and it takes a while to play".

An anonymous donor, gave a very generous tip of a Pennsylvania Lottery ticket worth $1,000 tucked away between many $1 bills. The Fantastic 10s ticket was donated on December 6^th, outside Walmart located at Harborcreek Township, 5741 Buffalo Road. Speaking in regards to this generosity a business adminstrator for the agency stated: "We are so pleased, especially since we're so far behind, it helps quite a bit" and Major Leslie Walter, officer of the local Salvation army said: "We are very grateful for this generous donation which will help us to serve people and families in need".

Dante Castillo, 70, from New Jersey has struck luck winning a monumental prize of $1 million through an accidental Cash4Life ticket sold to him in store. The ticket was purchased at Sam's Day & Nite Food store, located at 1200 River Ave, matching up a total of five numbers excluding the Cash Ball in the December 1^st drawing. The store will also be receiving its own financial incentive of a $10,000 for selling the winning ticket to the customer.

Dave Martinez, a high school janitor from Gurnee, Illinois is feeling very pleased with himself after landing $2 million with a scratch-off Illinois lottery ticket. Martinez purchased the ticket at a local gas station, before opening it at home stating "I started scratching off on the dining room table and thought it was just a hundred thousand at first and then I looked at it again and it said a hundred thousand times twenty and was just mind-boggling".  In the future he plans to travel to Hawaii, begin some home improvement projects as well as taking in a NASCAR race in Daytona.

A couple from Fresno County have claimed the biggest Fantasy 5 lottery winning ever. The previous record of the game was set nearly 24 years ago when in January 1992, a winner took the $729,505 top prize. Now Thomas Hanna and his wife finally broke the record. The couple didn’t share much about their future plans. As Thomas mentioned cheerfully, “Invest in houses and lots of whiskey!” Apart from that, the couple intends to pay off their mortgage and car loan.

What would be the probability for a statistics professor to win the lottery prize? Nicholas Kapoor, who is one of the lecturers in accelerated statistics at Fairfield University, might have given this brain-teaser at one of his lectures following his unexpected Powerball win. While estimating this might have left the young minds rather perplexed, at least one person in the lecture theatre was certain not only about the formula itself, but also about the real-life results. The reason being is that the Connecticut professor, Nicholas Kapoor has won $100,000 while playing one of the Powerball’s quick-picks!