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.

A lottery player kept thinking he would hit the jackpot - then he really did. Johnny Pearce couldn't stop looking at his North Carolina ticket after he learned it was worth $130,000. "I had to check it five or six times to make sure,

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 Maryland man took inspiration from another vehicle's license plate and bought a Maryland Lottery Pick 5 lottery ticket that earned him a $200,000 prize.

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.

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.

The man said he was driving to work one day when an interesting set of numbers caught his eye. Little did he know, those numbers would lead him to a $200,000 lottery win.

A Lawrence man is planning to buy a new house after winning $2 million on a scratch ticket, lottery officials said Wednesday.