Lincoln, NE – A group of five friends from Lincoln won $1 million playing Powerball from the Nebraska Lottery.

RALEIGH – James Bombard of Fayetteville said he had an extra reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving after he won a $100,000 Powerball prize.

“It feels like I’m in a dream,” Bombard said. “I couldn’t be more thankful.”

MISSOURI - Judging by the look on his wife’s face when Raymond Gawedzinski woke up on Nov. 8, he thought somebody had passed away.

“She called for me to come to the living room,” recalled Raymond. “When I walked out of our bedroom, she was holding the Post-Dispatch and had this look on her face. I thought she was looking at the obituaries and someone had passed away.”

With a huge smile and excited laughter, Nicole Argent claimed a $1 million Powerball prize from the drawing on Oct. 20. She purchased the winning ticket at U-Gas, 10743 Watson Road, in St. Louis.

It was just a normal day for Ruth Christiansen-Jones when she and her husband decided to check the winning Powerball numbers on the Virginia Lottery’s mobile app. That’s when their day became anything but normal.

“Baby, I think we just won a large amount of money!” her husband said.

RALEIGH – Benjamin Sinclair of Winston-Salem said a set of lucky numbers helped him win a $1 million Powerball prize.

“I’ve been playing the same numbers for five years,” Sinclair said. “They’re very special to me.”

RALEIGH – For Francisco Nunez of North Wilkesboro, a Powerball ticket bought online became an unexpected birthday surprise when he won $150,000 in Saturday’s drawing.

Nunez, who works at Tyson Foods, realized he was a big winner while playing video games early Sunday morning.

RALEIGH – Dennis Goodman of Landis said his luck was so bad he told his sister to buy her own Powerball ticket Saturday because you don’t want me touching yours. But Goodman’s luck changed in that night’s drawing, making him one of the luckiest Powerball players in North Carolina.

KENTUCKY - A mother and daughter have come forward with the $1 million Powerball ticket from the Wednesday, October 24, 2018 drawing.

Robyn Zapp, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, has been staying with her daughter, Nikki Wolf, while having renovations done on her house. 

Over the past several days, Robyn had given Nikki $20 to buy Powerball and Mega Millions tickets.  “I would go to the same store to buy the tickets,” Nikki said.  “I thought it might be lucky,” she said. 

CLIVE, Iowa (Nov. 5, 2018) — A central Iowa woman stepped forward Monday to claim a $343.9 million Powerball jackpot, the largest lottery prize won to date in Iowa.