Lopez was looking at the California Lottery app on his phone “when he noticed something unusual,” lottery officials said. “I saw there was a big winner and thought, ‘That’s cool,’” he told lottery officials. But then, reality set in. “It was me!” Lopez said.

A lottery player relied on her “unique strategy” — and it led to a huge jackpot win. The woman, who splits her time between Florida and North Carolina, “talks to her phone” when she buys lottery tickets online.

Someone has a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000, but time is running out to claim the prize. The winning lottery ticket is from the Feb. 26 Easy 5 drawing and was sold at Adams Grocery in Louisiana,

The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600.

A Maryland man said he followed an unusual lucky feeling and won $31,670, marking the second time an impulse purchase has earned him a big lottery prize.

A wife thought her husband held a lottery ticket worth $500 — but she was missing a few zeros. It turns out, the South Carolina husband’s scratch-off ticket was worth $500,000. “It’s been a running joke for a while that he was going to win big,” the wife told the S.C. Education Lottery in an Aug. 15 news release.

The player hit the jackpot at a Publix grocery store in New Smyrna Beach, a roughly 55-mile drive northeast from Orlando. The person chose the Quick Pick option, meaning a lottery machine randomly selected at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.

On Thursday, Aug. 14, the Iowa Lottery tapped roughly 1,380 people at the Iowa State Fair to attempt the Guinness World Record for the most people scratching scratch tickets simultaneously — ultimately giving them a massive edge over the previous record holder.