The continued existence of lotteries is a demonstration of how little intuition humans have for probability. On some level, we all know that the chances of actually winning a life-changing payout are basically zero, but a whole lot of people buy tickets every week—because you never know, you might just get lucky, right? Right??

An Illinois woman received a "Christmas Day blessing" when she scored a $350,000 lottery jackpot from a Lucky Day Lotto drawing on the holiday.

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Joseph Wheat won a $775,000 lottery prize in Louisiana, and asked his wife to double-check that he had winning numbers on Jan. 3: 'I made her come check the ticket to make sure I was really seeing what I thought I was seeing,

A North Texas resident has won $1 million in a scratch-ticket game, with the lucky ticket purchased at a Lewisville convenience store, the Texas Lottery Commission said in a news release Thursday.

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A winning Pennsylvania Lottery ticket worth $100,000 was sold in the Midstate. According to the PA Lottery, the ticket, which was sold at a Sheetz in McConnellsburg Borough, Fulton County, matched four of five white balls drawn and a red Powerball 23 to win the prize for the January 7 drawing.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that the Michigan Lottery contributed more than $1 billion to the School Aid Fund for the seventh year in a row.