An Illinois woman won $1 million from a lottery ticket in her purse that she had forgotten about.

A Minnesota woman won a lottery jackpot with a ticket she received while at the hospital after being diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer.

A frustrated man ended up winning a $9.2 million prize after a broken lottery machine forced him to buy a ticket for a different game than he originally wanted.

A North Carolina man got lucky when he parlayed his $10 pumpkin sale into a $150K lottery ticket.

The woman said she purchased the winning ticket after stopping by the store to cash in a couple of other smaller winning tickets she had.

A man got the surprise of a lifetime when he opened an email from the Michigan Lottery.

The winner ends a streak of over three months without a successful drawing. It was the eight largest in U.S. lottery history

The drawing will take place next Saturday and the jackpot could keep on climbing as people buy tickets until then

The next drawing is set to take place this Saturday and could award $935 million to the winner

The jackpot had been growing since early December

Mega Millions currently boasts a $1.1 billion prize, the figure being an estimated $800 million for Powerball

An Australian man got a big blessing when he won nearly $400,000 from the lottery jackpot using his late father's regular set of numbers along with his.