Turns out, one of his tickets came with a $1 million prize, lottery officials said. “I started crying and shaking,” the winner said. Had he taken the $100 bill, the man told lottery officials, it would have made him feel guilty, and he would have left the store without a ticket.

The West Virginia Lottery offers a variety of games if you think it’s your lucky day. Lottery players in West Virginia can choose from popular national games like the Powerball and Mega Millions, which are available in the vast majority of states.

A Powerball player just missed a massive jackpot prize — but still won big in North Carolina. The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the May 12 drawing, making it worth $50,000, results show. The winning numbers: white balls 15-16-41-48-60, with red Powerball 21.

The mistake turned into a $100,000 prize for a trio of lottery players in St. Louis, officials said. Worried the “Break the Bank” ticket was fake, the woman scanned her lottery ticket. “When the screen showed ‘Claim your prize at a Missouri Lottery Office,’ I knew it was real!” she told officials.

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A Powerball player in California won $62,000, just missing the $84 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, May 10, the California Lottery said. The lucky ticket was sold at Westside Liquor in Los Angeles, lottery officials told McClatchy News.

The winner is getting richer after playing the lottery in Okeechobee, a roughly 110-mile drive southeast from Orlando. The lucky ticket was sold at the Country Hills Store on U.S. Highway 441 North, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.

A Powerball player read about a big win in The News & Observer — and discovered she had the lucky ticket. “We have never won anything like this before,” Megan Sikora-Stypolkowski told the North Carolina Education Lottery in a May 5 news release.

Two years ago, San Antonio won THE lottery and drafted Victor Wembanyama. Last season, the Spurs drafted fourth and took Stephon Castle out of UConn, who went on to win Rookie of the Year.