Category: Lottery Winners

The Florida Lottery drew the grand prize in their $600 Million High Roller scratch-off game on 15th September.

And the big Florida lottery winner is Patricia Howell, 55, of Jacksonville. She just collected her check for $15,051,167.49 (as she opted for an immediate lump sum payment of the $20 million prize).

She originally won a $1,000 prize with her scratch-off ticket. All winners of the $1,000 and $20,000 prizes were automatically entered into the grand prize draw. In the end there were 9,117 winners in the running for the big $20 million prize.

Margaret Kilian bought a Funky 5’s scratch off lottery ticket. As many of us do she sat in her car getting silver dust all over the place, crossing her fingers for a win of maybe $10 or even $50.

So she couldn’t believe it when she realised she had just won $100,000. Margaret was stunned and just started shaking. It wasn’t an easy drive home she said, but thankfully she made it in one piece.

Margaret lives in Vacherie, Louisiana with her husband and daughter.

23 year old cowboy lottery winner Neal Wanless struck gold with the Powerball on Friday, with a massive win of $232 million. And what a deserving winner too.

Good kid cowboy Neal is single and lives with his parents on the family 320 acre ranch near Mission, Todd County, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses. Rural Todd County in South Dakota is the seventh poorest county in the USA.

The family don’t own a phone, and even had a mobile home repossessed last year.