A lottery player from Massachusetts won $1 million from a crossword-style lottery game. Bebelin Galvez, of Rehoboth won $1 million from the lottery’s “$2,000,000 50X Cashword” scratch ticket game. She came forward to claim her prize on Jan. 8.

Elizabeth Butterfield, a small business owner who likes to play some of the online games while getting ready for work in the morning, won $203,235 while playing the High Roller Jackpot, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 10 news release. “Wait a second!” Butterfield told the lottery she remembered thinking. “What happened?”

One Yancey County man has struck gold after buying his first scratch-off and winning top-prize millions. One Yancey County man has struck gold after buying his first scratch-off and winning top-prize millions.

A winning Fantasy 5 ticket was sold at an Atlanta-area gas station, according to the Georgia Lottery. The lucky player matched all five numbers in the drawing Sunday, Jan. 12, to win the top prize of $444,446, lottery officials said.

No tickets were sold matching all six numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to $303 million. One ticket was sold matching five numbers but not the Powerball in Virginia and is worth $1 million.

A ticket sold in New Jersey won $1 million in Saturday night's Powerball, according to the Powerball website. The ticket matched all five white balls to win the million-dollar prize. The New Jersey Lottery announced Monday that the winning ticket was sold at the ShopRite supermarket on Beaverbrook Road in Lincoln Park (Morris County).