"I was just sitting at home kicked back in my recliner when I won," said the man, who bought his lucky ticket online.

Two Illinois Lottery players woke up Monday morning as newly-minted millionaires after each hit jackpots on separate online games.

A woman in Arkansas was out running errands when she bought a lottery ticket and won a prize. The woman was running errands when she stopped to buy a drink, according to a July 24 news release from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. Once she was inside the North Little Rock store, she decided to buy a new lottery ticket, the release said.

Licette Griffin of Greensboro recalled “buckling to the floor” after realizing she’d won a $1.16 million instant jackpot, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a July 25 news release.

A lucky TAKE 5 player in Brooklyn is $33,496 richer after purchasing a top-prize ticket for the Friday evening drawing, lottery officials

The player hit the jackpot after stopping at a convenience store in the mountain town of Asheville. The lucky ticket was sold at Fastrac Markets Inc, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The unidentified woman recently stopped at a Redi Mart gas station in Lyman, South Carolina, and bought herself three Money Madness Extra Play scratch-off game lottery tickets. She told the South Carolina Education Lottery that the “bright, shiny, and glittery tickets caught my eye.”

Powerball tickets can be purchased at any New York Lottery retailer for $2, seven days a week. The deadline for purchasing a ticket is 10 p.m. on draw nights. Drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 11 p.m., and the New York Lottery urges players to buy tickets early to avoid last-minute lines.

Local player finally cashes in after 20 years, landing the South Carolina Education Lottery jackpot with numbers bought at Publix on Two Notch Road.

A lottery player tried their luck on a ticket — and hit the jackpot in North Carolina. The player bought a Carolina Cash 5 ticket that matched all the numbers picked in the July 23 drawing, making it worth $321,419, results show. The winning numbers were: 6-9-24-39-40.

It has been a month since someone hit it big in the Mega Millions, and the prize has yet to be claimed. The June 27 drawing of the Mega Millions saw one lucky winner hit on the $348 million jackpot. But,