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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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