Baltimore – A 25-year-old Hanover, Pa. woman played Powerball for the second time ever and won a $50,000 third-tier holiday surprise! Her favorite Maryland Lottery game is scratch-offs, “Double T” said, but when she saw the price of a Powerball ticket, she thought, “Why not” and bought one just for fun.

Baltimore – “Beginner’s luck” is how first-time Maryland Lottery player André Jones, 29, describes his $50,000 Powerball win. He purchased his first ticket ever on Friday, Oct. 19, and hit big in the drawing the following evening.

LANSING, Mich. – An Ohio man’s visit to Michigan turned out to be very profitable when he won $1 million playing Powerball.

Adam Bradley, of Westerville, Ohio, matched the five white balls drawn – 20-22-28-45-50 – in the April 28 drawing to win a $1 million prize. He bought the winning ticket at the Speedway gas station, located at 3357 East Holland Road in Saginaw. Westerville is about 15 miles north of Columbus.

LANSING, Mich. - A Marquette woman is looking forward to an earlier retirement after winning $100,000 playing Powerball. 

Gail Zorza, 62, matched four white balls and the Powerball - 10-11-47-55-58 PB: 26 - Saturday to win $50,000. Thanks to the Powerplay, her prize was multiplied by two for a $100,000 prize She bought her winning ticket at Cal's Party Store, located at 123 Genesee Street in Marquette.

ATLANTA – Pablo Martell of Brunswick is in ship-shape after winning an awesome prize. Martell won $50,000 recently in the Nov. 24 Powerball drawing.

Friendly Express, located at 2501 Perry Lane Road, sold the ticket.

According to the lucky winner, he was coming down with a cold and on his way home from the clinic when he stopped to buy the ticket.

Lincoln, NE – A group of five friends from Lincoln won $1 million playing Powerball from the Nebraska Lottery.

RALEIGH – James Bombard of Fayetteville said he had an extra reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving after he won a $100,000 Powerball prize.

“It feels like I’m in a dream,” Bombard said. “I couldn’t be more thankful.”

MISSOURI - Judging by the look on his wife’s face when Raymond Gawedzinski woke up on Nov. 8, he thought somebody had passed away.

“She called for me to come to the living room,” recalled Raymond. “When I walked out of our bedroom, she was holding the Post-Dispatch and had this look on her face. I thought she was looking at the obituaries and someone had passed away.”

With a huge smile and excited laughter, Nicole Argent claimed a $1 million Powerball prize from the drawing on Oct. 20. She purchased the winning ticket at U-Gas, 10743 Watson Road, in St. Louis.

It was just a normal day for Ruth Christiansen-Jones when she and her husband decided to check the winning Powerball numbers on the Virginia Lottery’s mobile app. That’s when their day became anything but normal.

“Baby, I think we just won a large amount of money!” her husband said.