The unidentified woman recently stopped at a Redi Mart gas station in Lyman, South Carolina, and bought herself three Money Madness Extra Play scratch-off game lottery tickets. She told the South Carolina Education Lottery that the “bright, shiny, and glittery tickets caught my eye.”

A woman in Arkansas was out running errands when she bought a lottery ticket and won a prize. The woman was running errands when she stopped to buy a drink, according to a July 24 news release from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. Once she was inside the North Little Rock store, she decided to buy a new lottery ticket, the release said.

The player hit the jackpot after stopping at a convenience store in the mountain town of Asheville. The lucky ticket was sold at Fastrac Markets Inc, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — An Elizabeth City man turned a $1 ticket into a $273,520 jackpot, according to the NC Education Lottery. The lucky ticket was for Multiplier Mania, one of the NC Education Lottery’s digital instant games. William Evans hit the game’s Gold Jackpot, beating the odds of 1 in 14 million.

A Union County store has sold not one, but two jackpot-winning lottery tickets, according to officials. A Jersey 5 Cash 5 jackpot worth $422,167 was hit on Thursday, with all five numbers matching three tickets sold at Quick Stop Deli and Grill.

A lottery jackpot seldom comes when a play needs it the most, but it just happened for a high school teacher in North Carolina. Tonya Carter of Warrenton “rarely plays the lottery,” which only adds to the sheer coincidence that she needed money and won $1 million.

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot continues to rise after someone won the $344 million prize on March 25. Here are the winning numbers in Friday’s drawing: