A dedicated three-person Michigan lottery club, composed of family members from Fenton, has won the $1 million life-changing prize in the May 17, 2024, drawing. As reported by local press, they matched all five white balls, 8, 17, 40, 60, and 70, securing the second-tier prize.   Despite their big win, the group was just one number away from...

A Portland man, his wife, and their friend are making history as winners of the fourth largest Powerball jackpot, amounting to $1.3 billion. Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, 46, purchased the ticket for the April 6, 2024 drawing and was the only person in the country to match all five numbers plus the Powerball.   Saephan is sharing the prize with 37...

21 members of the “Lunchroom Ladies” lottery club from Milford, Mich., will share a $1 million prize, won earlier this winter in the Mega Millions lottery. This announcement about their group success was made on May 15 on the lottery organizer's website.   The “Lunchroom Ladies” lottery club matched the five white balls in the Jan. 16 drawing...

A Mid-Michigan lottery club has claimed the largest Powerball prize ever won in Michigan – an $842.4 million jackpot, reports the Powerball website on June 11, 2024.   The three-member The Breakfast Club lottery club matched all the numbers drawn on January 1, 2024 – 12-21-42-44-49, PB: 01. The winning ticket was purchased at the Food Castle...

The California Lottery has announced the winners of the $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot, with a ticket sold at a local convenience store. "Theodorus Struyck represents the group of winners who bought that ticket at Midway Market in Frazier Park ahead of the historic draw back in October of last year," the lottery stated in a press release publishe...

Officials from the Pennsylvania Lottery and Nittany MiniMart, a Lottery retailer, today presented a commemorative check to a group of 15 UPMC medical workers, who call themselves the Million Dollar Medicals after winning $1 million from the historic July 28, 2023 Mega Millions drawing.   According to Mega Millions news published on September...

Two central Iowa men joked that they may be the world’s tiniest lottery office pool, but they still hit big. Randy Ferriss of Nevada and Colton Snyder of Huxley on Thursday, April 20, 2023, claimed a $1 million Mega Millions prize they won two days earlier on April 18. The long-time employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Ames said they’...

On Monday, January 9, 2023, a group of nine individuals from across the Treasure Valley (Idaho) claimed the $1,000,000 Mega Millions winning ticket from the November 15, 2022, draw. Dubbed “The Big Friend Group,” the nine long-time friends have been playing as a pool for about twelve years. They purchase their tickets once a month as a group with e...

Pennsylvania Lottery officials on July 2, 2021, announced that a jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket from the May 21, 2021, drawing has been claimed. The jackpot had an annuity value of $516 million. The jackpot winners opted to form a trust to claim the jackpot prize as a cash, lump-sum payment. As a result, Peace of Mind Trust, a five-member...

An anonymous group that nicknamed themselves “The Power Pack” has stepped forward to claim the largest prize in the Maryland Lottery’s history, reports AP. The Maryland Lottery announced on May 26, 2021 that the winners of the $731.1 million Powerball jackpot have come forward four months after the winning ticket was purchased. This happened on Jan...