Virginia Lottery: An accidental lottery ticket purchase has landed Michael Donnelly the $7 million grand prize with Cash4Life! The chance of winning it are 1 in 21.8 million, and he won this by mistake! He has chosen to receive his prize as a lump sum of $7 million instead of $1,000 per day for the rest of his life. The owner of the store will also receive a financial incentive of $50,000 for selling the ticket.

Montana Lottery: Jack Barisich, 86, from Winnett, Montana has claimed the grand prize with the Montana Lottery after receiving it as a gift from one of the members of his family. They kept the ticket in a safe till they went to cash it in at the Montana Lottery headquarters to validate their win and claim the prize. They haven’t decided what to do with the money, as they are still in the process of taking it all in.

New Jersey Lottery: Mike Ducker has started this New Year with a lot of luck, a third round of luck in fact. He has hit the top jackpot prize of $200,000 with the $500 frenzy game. He plans to put down a portion of the money on a deposit for a house and additionally buy a new vehicle. The retailer, Sarath Mamdapadi will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the ticket. “Anything can happen in Jersey” they say!
 

California Lottery: Once again somebody has won the SuperLotto Plus Jackpot, in Stockton. The identity of the $8 million prize remains unknown at this moment in time, however what we do know, is that this lucky ticket was bought at 7-eleven located at 7647 Pacific Avenue, with the figures: 24, 36, 12, 25, 5 and the Mega number of 4.

The first set of winners have been announced for the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot. John and Lisa Robinson, from Tennessee have won their share of the enormous prize, worth $528.8 million, Lisa says this came as a complete surprise as they were only hoping for perhaps a small slice of the cake. They plan on returning to work as this is all they’ve done all their lives, and haven’t thought of anything in particular to splash out their money on, apart from paying off their mortgage and their daughter’s student loans.

Florida Lottery: Katherine Miller, 72 from New York is the most recent and newest winner of the Holiday Millionaire Raffle. There were 7 million dollar prizes up for grabs, however 3 still remain unclaimed. Miller talked about the experience, saying she had never previously purchased a single lottery ticket, however she received it as a gift from her sister.

Powerball: The excited grows amongst a large proportion of Americans tonight as the Powerball lottery jackpot has been bumped up once again to a staggering figure of $1,300,000,000! This figure is now not only the largest jackpot America has seen, but the whole world has never experienced the possibility of a prize this large.