NASHVILLE — A Millington man who won $2 million playing Powerball last weekend said his father told him to play.

“He told me to play and dream big,” said Donald Coffman, who claimed the mega-prize on Monday at the Tennessee Lottery’s Nashville headquarters with his wife, Joanna. “So I did!”

LANSING, Mich. - A lucky mistake led to a Westland woman winning a $100,400 Powerball prize.

Linda Keyanchuk, 64, matched the four white balls and the Powerball twice - 10-21-30-43-63 PB: 17 - in the Aug. 8 drawing to win two $50,000 prizes. She also matched three numbers and the Powerball four times to win an additional $400. She bought her ticket online at MichiganLottery.com.

RALEIGH – Richard Silverthorne woke up Thursday morning, turned on the news on WITN, and as he watched a report on the winning Powerball numbers discovered he was a $100,000 winner.

(Sept. 27, 2018) - Forty-two-year-old Nandlall Mangal, from Staten Island, has come forward to claim the $245.6 million sole jackpot-winning ticket from the August 11, 2018 Powerball drawing.

Mangal, said he purchases his Lottery tickets when the jackpots reach $100 million.  “I was grocery shopping and knew the Powerball jackpot was big,” he explained.  “I decided that was a good time to buy my tickets.”

Sean B., who enjoys chasing big jackpots playing Powerball® and Mega Millions®, wasn’t exactly sure how to inform his wife that his Powerball ticket was a winner.

He opted to have a little fun while breaking the big news.

“I called my wife and told her I have good news, and I have bad news,” he said. “The bad news is that we didn’t win the Powerball jackpot. The good news is that we DID win $50,000!”

Jim R. stopped at Sheetz in Brookville to get ice cream for his grandkids. While waiting in line, he decided to play Powerball for the June 16, 2018, drawing. He picked his own numbers at random using a touch-screen self-service terminal.

The next morning, he retrieved the tickets from his truck and checked the winning numbers online over a cup of coffee.

Vincent F. had never played Powerball® but managed to win $1 million on his first try!

He purchased his ticket at Stop & Shop in Pittsburgh. It matched all five white balls drawn in the July 28 Powerball drawing.

“When I returned to the store, the clerk said they had sold a $1 million winner,” Vincent said. “That’s when I scanned my ticket and realized I was the big winner -- I was elated!”

MISSOURI - A man’s 18-year-old fortune cookie has finally proven itself lucky. Paul Winters of Lee’s Summit says he uses the “lucky numbers” on the back of a fortune cookie he received 18 years ago when purchasing his weekly Missouri Lottery Powerball ticket.

“I had to make an adjustment to my numbers when the Powerball game changed a few years ago,” laughed Winters, saying that his numbers have otherwise stayed the same for the past 18 years.

LANSING, Mich. - Two lucky feelings led to two $100,000 Powerball prizes for a Wayne County man.

Baltimore – When it came to cashing in a $50,000 Powerball ticket, it was a case of “Better Late than Never” for a Maryland woman from the Frederick County community of Monrovia.