A Connecticut Lottery player from Maine won a jackpot prize thanks to her father, according to Connecticut Lottery. Abby Biddeford won $50,000 from playing $50,000 Ca$hword after her father gave her the ticket because the scratch-off lottery game "took too long to play," according to Connecticut Lottery's winners page.

The big winner comes two weeks after a $3 million scratch-off in The Hunt for $3,000,000 game was sold in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County. That is also a $30 scratch-off game with a top prize of $3 million. In April, a $3 million scratch-off in the $3,000,000 Golden Ticket game was sold in Harrisburg.

Someone in Massachusetts won $100,000 on Friday from a winning lottery ticket they bought at a shop called "Winner's Corner," located in this town.

Lottery officials said that two lottery players from Illinois are now millionaires after winning Wednesday's Powerball jackpot.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A weekly paycheck worth thousands of dollars would be a big win for most New Yorkers, and the state’s lottery system offers just that. Top prizes for three “for life” games range in value from $1,000 a week for life to $10,000 a week for life, and all three games have top prizes still in circulation.

A winning $1 million Lotto ticket was sold at a southwest suburban gas station this week. The ticket was sold at the Citgo gas station located at 8755 W. 79th Street in Justice, Illinois. The winning ticket matched all six Lotto Million 1 numbers in Thursday's drawing: 5, 11, 16, 23, 25, and 39.

An 83-year-old Texas woman believed her life had changed forever when she hit the jackpot in the Lotto Texas draw earlier this year. But just days after the win, the payout vanished as a result of a sudden rule change that blindsided her and many other lottery players.