Bob Erb was $25 million to the richer after playing the British Columbia lottery in Canada, so he was feeling really good when he sat down for a burger and fries at the Old West Express in the town of Chamberlain in Saskatchewan, Canada. That's where it happened.

In Cressona, Pennsylvania, Joan Lechleitner, 51, and her fiancé, Kerry Titus, 54, shared a $1 million Cash 5 jackpot with three other winners. That both Joan and Kerry worked at the store they bought the tickets from was not all that unusual. What was, however, was ...

A company Christmas party white elephant holiday gift exchange in December 2022 netted Kentucky woman Lori Janes $175,000. Janes originally grabbed a TJ MAXX gift card, but when another partygoer chose that from her according to the rules, she pivoted and took her chances on $25 worth of Kentucky Lottery scratch-off tickets.

North Carolina woman Brenda Gomez Hernandez had the greatest day in her life on November 9, 2022. For the healthy birth of her first baby girl, Brenda felt blessed. But when she hit the Powerball on the very same day

These get-rich-quick stories make you wish for a headache. It’s not as easy as it sounds in these true-life events, but these crazy winning lottery stories happen. Dakota McNeill of Hampton, Virginia, suffering from a terrible headache in May 2022, called in sick to work and drove to the Newport News Food Mart for some Tylenol.

Can you imagine rummaging through a pile of discarded lottery tickets on your car’s dashboard and finding a winning ticket worth £76 million? Well, Andrew Clark from Lincolnshire, in the East Midlands of England, had that exact situation occur to him.