Lottery Winners
All Lottery Winners articles
Celebrate the stories of past lottery winners by reading through articles.
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Lotteries gone wrong: These million-dollar mistakes cost players bigThese players lost millions because of mistakes by the lottery.
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Win big, work hard: These lottery players won millions and kept their jobsThis nurse wouldn't quit even after winning a jackpot worth millions.
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The $115K Florida Lottery ticket was real, but the claim wasn'tInvestigators say a lottery retailer stole a winning Fantasy 5 ticket and sent his nephew to claim the prize.
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High school jackpots: Lottery winners who struck it rich as teenagersThis 18-year-old won big with her first-ever lottery ticket.
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The most epic jackpots from 2025Which games hit the top 20 jackpots of 2025? No - it wasn't just Powerball and Mega Millions.
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Lotto 47's largest jackpot winner steps forward to claim record prizeHe thought he won $5, but his wicket was worth $32.9 million.
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The numbers behind New Jersey's broadest year of lottery winsEvery county saw meaningful wins in 2025, driven less by jackpots and more by steady prize volume.
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"It's you": Store clerk predicts Maryland Holiday Raffle winLate mother's birthday brings daughter $1 million holiday raffle prize.
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Why lottery players love systems, even when luck calls the shotsA spreadsheet helped one player win fast, but the real story may be why systems feel so powerful.
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Georgia's biggest winner ever: Anonymous jackpot claimant nabs $983MThe winner played regularly to support HOPE and plans to give back to the community.
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Why do we want our name to be 'lucky'?Lottery winner lists tap into something deeper than odds, the human urge to find signs.
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Lottery winners face major tax shift under 2026 legislationWhat every lottery winner needs to know before claiming their prize in 2026.
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Lottery fireworks: Raffles deliver big wins to start 2026Players in three states rang in the new year with $1M wins, as the first day of 2026 brought massive wins.
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Million-dollar trash: These lottery players almost threw away jackpotsHow a homeless man almost trashed a $4 million lottery ticket, and other stories of dumpster jackpots.
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This $1M lottery claim came with a ringFresh off his Montana Millionaire win, Dale Goodsell turned a prize claim into a proposal she couldn't refuse.
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Everything we know about the $1.82 billion Powerball winnerWho took home the second-biggest lottery jackpot of all time?
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These lucky pets helped their owners score major lottery jackpotsCan a lucky spider or pet make you a lottery millionaire?
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Big jackpots get attention, but smaller wins fueled iLottery growthProgressive payouts and instant games quietly drove engagement all year long.
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After months of rollovers, Michigan's Lotto 47 jackpot finally hitsSince April, the jackpot kept growing, becoming the largest ever before one lucky player won $32.91M.
