Yep, that was one incredible night. I had tracked down that store, and called the clerk earlier in the week asking him to put the book aside because I liked the book numbers. I bought 4 books that night, and that night was just a funny story in general.
I had chased Super Millions hardcore, and that night I also got my first "Super" win all symbol for $500 in one book. The other book was the hot one with the $100k on #12, and $1k (manual win all). This was on November 18th or 19th in 2016. I continued buying books searching for the last unclaimed $3M on Super Millions to no avail.
Here is the pic of the $100k win again for anyone who hasn't seen it, and wants proof the big wins do exist (but are almost impossible to find). On Super Millions, there were 30 $100k prizes, 12 $3M prizes printed and spread throughout 672,000 or 20,160,000 tickets. So, 42 huge winners scattered across 20 million tickets. Yep, it definitely puts things to perspective when you look at it that way...
My book buying days are over, and my "one and done", or random sessions haven't yielded me a claim ticket since early 2017 I believe. In two years of playing scratchoffs, I've found 8 $1k wins, and 1 $100k. I would have been far into the negative if it weren't for the $100k. I would have been happy with a $5k, $10k, or $20k, but I didn't expect to find the last $100k prize on the Super Millions game.
I have faith that you book buyers will hit it big. I think the best strategy is targeting games strategically. Even then, finding these huge wins is like getting struck by lightning. I just bought a 100X in Publix on the 115x range. Since the first 3 $1M prizes were found, I know that book range has probably a 0% chance of yielding a $1M winner. We don't know where the first $100k and $15M will pop, but I use the information the lottery provides, as well as book number ranges to discern which books have at least some chance at yielding a jackpot winner over buying randomly. I know Gators does this since I see him playing games that are overdue, like the $10 Gold Rush Doubler (which generally sucks), and the $5 Full of Trash (Which is around 96% sold with one $250k remaining).