You can bet that Norman Stretch won't be losing his reading glasses again anytime soon — especially after he nearly mistook his Canada Lotto 6/49 $5 million win for a $5,000 one.
"I thought I'd won $5,000 because I couldn't find my reading glasses," said Stretch. "I called my friend to show him, and he said, 'Check again with your glasses on, dummy!'"
After putting on his glasses, Stretch realized he had actually won $5,000,0004 as part of the April 13 Lotto 6/49 draw. The central Alberta winner said he could not stop laughing, and couldn't wait to tell his friends the funny story.
One Michigan player won a $7.19 million Lotto 47 jackpot with a ticket bought online, breaking the state record for the largest lottery prize won online.
Florida lottery winners are increasingly expressing frustration over the claims process, with many players complaining that the state is blocking prize payouts and issuing notices of owed money for debts that do not exist.
A Michigan man revealed that he purposefully did not scratch off the prize amount on his winning lottery ticket, and as a result, he ended up waiting three months to find out that it was worth $4 million.
A former Georgia Lottery employee was arrested and charged with three counts of bribery after investigators found he accepted bribes to pass store inspections.
A Washington Lottery retailer sold three winning tickets for three different games in one week, with two winning prizes in the six-figure range and one hitting a $4.6 million Lotto jackpot.
A Missouri woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for orchestrating a conspiracy to buy nearly 2,000 lottery tickets with stolen credit cards, totaling over $116,000 in fraudulent winnings and purchases.
A New York U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee avoided a prison sentence after being convicted of stealing cash, lottery tickets, and other personal belongings from the mail she was entrusted to deliver.
