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Dad buys lottery ticket to keep busy during kids’ movie. Win left him stunned
Before the showing with his preschool-aged kids and wife, the father bought ice cream and a few scratch-off lottery tickets from an Eldersburg grocery store, lottery officials said. The father scratched his tickets that evening as he watched the movie with his family, lottery officials said.
A Michigan man followed a "whim" and used some of his $300 in lottery winnings to buy another Fast Play ticket -- scoring a $714,891 progressive jackpot prize.
Johnny Pearce of Zebulon purchased a Cash 5 ticket from Compare Foods on North Arendell Ave and won a $130,000 jackpot! He said he told his family over and over that he would win big playing the lottery. “I told them all the time I was going to hit the Cash 5 jackpot one day,”… pic.twitter.com/NHX32CtuVc
Ruggiero won $435,915 after stopping at a Harris Teeter grocery store in Greensboro. While there, he tried his luck on the Carolina Cash 5 game, lottery officials wrote in an Aug. 20 news release. It turns out, the man’s $1 ticket held a big surprise. It beat 1-in-962,598 odds to match all the numbers picked in the Aug. 13 drawing.
A new case of lottery fever is spreading across the United States ahead of Wednesday's Powerball drawing with the jackpot jumping to more than $600 million. NBC’s Jesse Kirsch reports for TODAY.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Hoosier Lottery Mega Millions, Cash 5 winning numbers for Aug. 19, 2025 The Hoosier Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Aug. 19, 2025, results for each game:
A lottery winner scored a life-changing prize — and couldn’t stop checking his lucky ticket. “ I did a triple take to make sure it was right,” Bradley Groseclose told the North Carolina Education Lottery. Groseclose was in disbelief when he learned he won $1 million. After getting richer, he plans to work on home renovations.
A Massachusetts lottery player claimed the last $2 million grand prize remaining in a $10 scratch ticket game on Tuesday. The $2 million prize was from “$2,000,000 50X Cashword,” a crossword-style lottery ticket game released in 2024.
Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.