Gilbert Sandoval, was on his way to pick his daughter up from the airport when he decided to stop off at a gas station as he needed some more gas for the trip. After stopping off at Whittier am/pm, he thought that he might as well buy himself a scratchers ticket whilst he was there – so he purchased the $5 Set for Life Scratchers ticket before continuing his journey on the Freeway. It was only when he stopped at a red light, near LAX that he decided to check the ticket – and can you believe it, he saw the word “LIFE” across the bottom which meant that he had won a $3 million prize. “I just did a double-take! I opened my console and then put it in there. You know, I still haven’t heard whether it’s illegal to scratch at a red light,” he laughed. 

Leon Greenberg, and his wife have a lot less to worry about after winning a $7,000,000 jackpot with the New York Lottery. The couple, recently went on a trip to the casino and had some money left over, so his wife – Karin decided to purchase a lottery ticket for him from the BP gas station, which is located at 155 S. Highland Ave. in Ossining in New York. Now, Leon has never played the lottery before so when his wife came home with the $25 scratched off Cash Blowout ticket worth $7 million, he thought that she must have made a mistake. “You just don’t win $7 million” he said. However, he signed off the back of the ticket just to be safe and has gone on to claim his prize as a lump sum, which is worth $4,632,600 after tax and federal withholdings. 

Terry McClelland, and his wife who are from Statesville, in North Carolina have won a $250,000 lottery prize and have already made plans of fulfilling their life-long dream by using this lottery money in order to donate it to a non-profit organization. McClelland, who is an army veteran stopped off at a Speedway, which is located on the Turnersburg Highway in Statesville when he decided to purchase a Diamond Dazzler ticket, and would you believe it, he beat the odds of 1 in 1.2 million to land the $250,000 prize. “When I scratched that ticket, I couldn’t believe it,” he said at the lottery headquarters. After realizing that he was a winner, following a discussion with his wife, who is also called Terry – they decided that they could finally fulfil his wife’s dream of starting a counselling centre, with the purpose of freeing people from various addictions. 

Marco Amador, 39, from San Diego County has just won a huge prize of $750,000 with the California Lottery so it’s no surprise that he’s super excited and optimistic following the win! Amador, usually plays draw games such as Powerball and Mega Millions – however his friend recently convinced him to try his hand at scratch-off games, so following his friend’s advice he went into Stater Bros, which is located at 1048 North El Camino Real in Encinitas and purchased a $10 Mystery Crossword Scratchers. Working as the manager of an auto detail shop, he was coincidentally at his work place when he decided to scratch off the ticket he had bought – and came to realize that one of the puzzles on the ticket in fact matched up 10 complete words, which is the exact number he needed to win the top prize the game offers of $750,000! 

Kevin Smith, from Los Angeles did not feel like cooking, so he decided to stop off at Food 4 Less which is located at 1651 East street on 103 ^rd street in Los Angeles. Smith, needed some dinner for him and grandfather – so after having a good look around, he opted for a fast food establishment, which was Burger King and after being crowned the King – in high spirits he went on to purchase his Crossword Deluxe ticket at the nearby store. With no time to waste, Smith scratched off his California Lottery ticket before he had even left the parking lot – and started realizing that quite a few words were matching up on his ticket. Lucky for him, indeed one of the three puzzles of the Crossword ticket revealed 10 words – which is the exact amount needed to win the top prize in the game, which is worth $2,000,000! 

Linda, from Colorado was definitely not expecting to find out that she’d won the lottery after going through her losing tickets, that she was hoping to enter in for the second-chance draw. Linda, purchased her lottery ticket back in July, from a Safeway store in Firestone – the ticket was a $50 Series game – The Golden Jubilee. She went on to scratch the ticket later on, however nothing stood out to her that made her believe that the ticket was a winner – therefore, following her usual routine the ticket went into the growing pile of losing tickets that she hoped she’d win a Second-chance prize on. A few months on, Linda finally gathered up all her losing tickets and used the Colorado’s Lottery’s app to scan them – however the app rejected her Golden Jubilee ticket. Intrigued, taking a closer look, she realized that this ticket was worth $3,000,000 -which is the top prize in the game! 

In a very coincidental turn of events, Michelle Shuffler from Granite Falls has won two lottery prizes in one day, one worth $10,000 and the other worth $1,000,000. This is the second time, that someone has won the lottery twice in one day in the past three weeks! Shuffler, purchased her first ticket at the Cubbard Express which is located at Beecher Anderson Road in Lenoir after stopping off there with her husband. She explained that she, and her husband don’t usually play the lottery, however at the last minute her husband made an impulse buy with a ticket after finding some spare cash on him. The ticket was a Million Dollar Fever ticket, and upon scratching it they realized the ticket was worth $10,000! Now, after feeling that fate was on their side, they went on to purchase another scratch-off ticket from the Murphy Express, which is located on Hickory Boulevard in Granite falls which is around 22 miles away from the first ticket location and found that this second ticket was worth 100 times more.