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Lopez was looking at the California Lottery app on his phone “when he noticed something unusual,” lottery officials said. “I saw there was a big winner and thought, ‘That’s cool,’” he told lottery officials. But then, reality set in. “It was me!” Lopez said.
The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.
A Maryland man said he followed an unusual lucky feeling and won $31,670, marking the second time an impulse purchase has earned him a big lottery prize.
A wife thought her husband held a lottery ticket worth $500 — but she was missing a few zeros. It turns out, the South Carolina husband’s scratch-off ticket was worth $500,000. “It’s been a running joke for a while that he was going to win big,” the wife told the S.C. Education Lottery in an Aug. 15 news release.
The player hit the jackpot at a Publix grocery store in New Smyrna Beach, a roughly 55-mile drive northeast from Orlando. The person chose the Quick Pick option, meaning a lottery machine randomly selected at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, the Iowa Lottery tapped roughly 1,380 people at the Iowa State Fair to attempt the Guinness World Record for the most people scratching scratch tickets simultaneously — ultimately giving them a massive edge over the previous record holder.
The winning National Lottery Lotto numbers are drawn at 8pm while the National Lottery Thunderball numbers are drawn shortly after. We'll have those results live below.
Two winning Keno tickets were both drawn Friday, Aug. 15, according to the CT Lottery. The first ticket, worth $18,000, was sold at West Main Convenience on 417 W Main St in Stamford, according to the CT Lottery’s website.