A Santa Rosa (CA) man came back from his lunch break as a multi-millionaire. 57-year old Keith Johnson works in the wine business.  At lunchtime, he stopped at Sam's Market in Santa Rosa to get a sandwich.

Johnson also purchased a $20 Scratchers lottery ticket. As he returned to work, he was shocked to find out that he won $5 million lottery prize (before taxes).

"I kept [the ticket] in my lunchbox," Johnson said. "It seemed fine, as long as nobody knew I had it. It was always near."

Mega Millions have guaranteed a $121 million jackpot for the tonight's drawing. Wouldn't it be a great help for anyone in the challenging times? Mega Millions realises that you are now likely to be dealing with significant disruption to your usual living routines and that this will be impacting on your access to playing your favourite games. Lottery staff has investigated how it can provide more opportunities for those affected by the virus limitations and reviewed the game making it more inclusive to everyone. The Mega Millions announced today that the starting jackpot for the game had been lowered and the subsequent starting jackpots, as well as jackpot increases, will be set on a drawing-by-drawing basis. 

An 80-year-old Mt. Vernon man won $6.3 million on March 23 after getting all six of winning numbers right on a free lottery ticket from an earlier drawing— and he almost left it at the store.

Robert McCauley explained Lottery officials that he brought his Megabucks lottery ticket to the local Mini Mart, called Blue Mountain, where the store manager, Jolene Moulton, said that he had won a free lottery ticket. Moulton added that McCauley almost left his free ticket at the store.

€16 million (US$17.5 million) of the lottery winnings stayed unclaimed in Ireland for a while. The largest unattended lottery winning on record was for a €4.3 million lottery jackpot, dating back to 2001. The lottery ticket was purchased in Coolock in Dublin, and despite all efforts to find the lottery winner, no one stepped forward. A more recent winning worth just under €3 million that was purchased in Mayo in 2014 was unclaimed as well.

A 61-year-old Ocala resident has finally come forward to receive her multi-million lottery winning. A managing member of Vacation Life LLC, Sheryll Goedert turned up at Florida Lottery headquarters to claim $396.9 million jackpot. The original POWERBALL® drawing that made Sheryll a multi-millionaire was held on January 29, 2020.

A Missouri resident who won $50,000 back in 2002 came back to the lottery officials 18 years later to collect a whopping $3 million lottery jackpot.

Anne Kasal explained to the Missouri Lottery officials that she purchased her Lotto ticket for the March 11 drawing at the local Schnucks Market at 5055 Arsenal St. in St. Louis.

Her lottery ticket had all six winning numbers of 11, 16, 23, 26, 31, and 38.

A British woman who bought a farm in England thanks to her lottery prize gave free potatoes to families affected by a coronavirus.

A 51-year-old Susan Herdman relocated to the farmhouse after hitting the big one in the National Lottery in 2010. After the Covid-19 outbreak, she started sharing her own, home-grown potatoes. She shared a post in a Facebook group after locals started stockpiling food following the coronavirus outbreak. Local Council member for Boroughbridge, Robert Windass highly praised Susan Herdman for her community contributions. He said that it was very generous of her to help the community so much in uncertain times. It also helped to show that there was plenty of food around.