Alice Griffin had to be convinced a her sister to play the lottery.  She plays only occasionally and wins occasionally as well.  After winning $5,000 on a scratch-off ticket just last year, she has again won, a million dollars this time, from a $10 Cash Spectacular scratch ticket she decided to buy while out running errands.

The combination : 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31, matched by one lucky lottery player in New Jersey has just won a $338 million Powerball jackpot, the sixth highest jackpot in Powerball history.

A Pittsfield woman , who regularly placed lottery bets, finally beat the 1 in 3 million odds when a $5 lottery ticket “Black Pearls” instant scratch ticket she bought from a gas station in Lanesborough resulted won a $1 million jackpot.

Lottery is good for You; Myungsu You, that is.  The convenience store operator from Hamilton just won $16.1 million in the 6/49 lottery draw for 05 December 2012.

Michael Simmons, of Staten Island, New York only bets whenever the Powerball jackpot is high, and averages only $10 a month in bets.

Feeling lucky one day, he decided to place a Powerball bet, which turned out to be one of the best financial decisions he has ever made. 

Lady luck must have visited a small European country recently, as a very lucky internet lotto player won the biggest jackpot ever won in Estonia.

Viking lotto announced that half of its lotto jackpot on Wednesday, was won by an Estonian, with the other half going to a player in Norway. 

Peter King of Kennebunk, Maine, won a million dollars from the Maine Millionaire II game on Monday but had to wait out a severe snowstorm before he could show up to collect his winnings.

A 76 year old woman, who only plays the lottery occasionally, and had never won any big amount before, did not know she had a ticket worth $250,000 in her wallet for many months.

The Pennsylvania Lottery has announced that the jackpot for the March 23 drawing of the Powerball Lotto has increased to an annuity value of $320 million, equivalent to a single payment of $198.3 million.

59-year-old Son Van Duong of Orlando, attracted by the $290 million in cash prizes offered by the  25th Anniversary Edition Millionaire Scratch-Off game of the Florida lottery, bought a ticket.