A Bay Area man bought a lottery ticket in San Francisco on a whim only to scratch his way to a $2 million prize. What started as a slow day turned into a life-changing one for Rwhi Zeidan, who decided to pick up a California Lottery ticket while killing time in downtown San Francisco.

A Georgia woman got a gift from her father worth more than $1 million, but it wasn't a house or an inheritance. Instead, it was a lottery ticket.

The California couple bought lottery tickets to break a $100 bill with plans to pay for pizza but the impulsive lotto game turned into a life-changing purchase

Three scratch-off lottery tickets worth at least $1 million were sold in New Jersey in the past week, including one valued at $5 million. A player in Union County won the biggest prize after spending $30 on a $5,000,000 Fortune ticket at a 7-Eleven on Liberty Avenue in Hillside, lottery officials said.

The retiree has been playing games for more than two decades, and stopped by a Baltimore store to pick up her weekly games before going home to eat dinner, according to a June 10 news release by the Maryland Lottery.

Cassandra Stephens of Cornelius says she couldn’t help herself after discovering the store employee had sold her a jackpot-winning ticket in the N.C. Education Lottery. It happened at Cashion’s Quik Stop on Statesville Road in Cornelius, and the 50X The Cash ticket was worth $339,703, lottery officials said in a June 10 news release.

“Two weeks from now we are hitting our 55th wedding anniversary ,” Richard Dooley told the North Carolina Education Lottery. “This is a nice early anniversary present.” Dooley lives in Cary, just west of Raleigh. He learned he won $100,000 when a lottery worker called him with the good news.

The ticket and another one worth $50,000 will expire if they’re not claimed before the end of the month, lottery officials said.

MONROE COUNTY, MI – Forget turning red. A Michigan women said she “turned green” after she won a $500,000 lottery prize. The 62-year-old from Monroe County won her big prize playing the Fantastic 5’s instant game.

A jackpot-winning Jersey Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $1,517,266 was sold in New Jersey for Saturday’s drawing. The lucky ticket was bought at QuickChek on Route 23, in Franklin Borough, Sussex County, lottery officials said. Saturday’s winning numbers were: 4, 6, 18, 30 and 39. The Bullseye number was 39.

Traffic came to a halt as the man was running errands in Essex County, Tuesday, June 3, New Jersey Lottery officials said in a June 10 news release. As he waited, the man said he honked his car’s horn. However, he said the driver “just sat there” on the South Orange road.

An Alberta man scored a lottery jackpot of more than $730,000, marking his fourth major lottery prize -- and his third since August 2024.