MISSOURI - Billy Eades buys six Powerball tickets each week – three for Wednesday night’s drawing and three for the Saturday night drawing. On June 2, the $12-a-week practice led the retiree to a $50,000 payout when he matched four out of five white-ball numbers and the Powerball number drawn. Eades purchased the winning ticket at QuikTrip, 1010 Armour Road, in North Kansas City.

NASHVILLE — Twice was nice for a lucky Shelbyville man, who won big the second time he played Powerball. Matthew Reed, a cabinet maker, won a cool $2 million Saturday, June 16, 2018, playing the popular game.

BOISE, Idaho – After playing the same numbers regularly for the last eighteen years, Michael Tran’s persistence paid off when he claimed a $2,000,300 Powerball prize from last Saturday night’s draw from the Idaho Lottery this afternoon.

“I scanned the ticket with my phone last night and it said I had to contact the Lottery office,” Tran said about how he discovered he had the big winning ticket. “Then I checked the numbers for Saturday night and they looked very familiar!”

Baltimore – A group of friends that gathers often over coffee and Maryland Lottery tickets is still celebrating the $50,000 third-tier Powerball prize they won last month. Many members of the Maryland “Powerball 26” have played Powerball and Mega Millions together for 10 years.

The Harford County group “CEO,” Earl Marsh Jr., said he usually purchases their Powerball quick-pick tickets from a Lottery retailer other than their new lucky store, Royal Farms #70 in Joppa, Md.

Missouri - Matthew Britton said he never really played Powerball until the Mega Millions changes happened in October of last year. Now he plays both, depending on which jackpot is higher. And since Powerball’s jackpot was up to $280 million on May 17, he purchased a Powerball ticket using Quick Pick, leading him to a $50,000 win.

Missouri - Many husbands enjoy surprising their wives with the occasional bouquet of flowers. But Melissa Carullo’s husband likes to mix it up with Lottery tickets to keep her on her toes. Call it luck or call it fate, but one thing is for sure: Her husband’s surprise Powerball tickets on May 16 paid off at the right time.

LANSING, Mich., May 30, 2018 – A Macomb woman couldn’t stop screaming after she won a $100,000 Powerball.

MISSOURI - A Stark City man is planning to buy a house with the $50,000 prize he won in the May 19 Powerball drawing. Daniel Withnell said he buys Powerball tickets every week, using a combination of numbers from his four grown children’s birthdays.

On Monday morning, when he watched the local news and saw the winning Powerball numbers from Saturday night, he knew they looked familiar.

“I figured I won $100,” Withnell said.

LANSING, Mich., May 23, 2018 – A Vietnam veteran from Lansing believes his late wife guided him to a $150,000 Powerball prize.

LANSING, Mich., May 22, 2018 – Persistence paid off for a Lansing woman who won $150,000 playing Powerball.