KENT COUNTY, MI – A Michigan woman was forced to play a different lottery game than usual, and it ended up winning her $1 million. The Kent County resident, who chose to remain anonymous, won the big prize playing the Wild Cherry instant game.

An Estill County woman found her winning lottery ticket in the trash, according to Kentucky Lottery officials.

A Middlesex County man is now a millionaire and more than a dozen other Garden State residents are several thousand dollars richer, thanks to New Jersey Lottery’s Million Dollar Replay Grand Prize Drawing.

"I gave the ticket back to the clerk and had her check it. She helped me scratch the rest of it off, and when she saw I had hit $1 million, she screamed, 'She just won $1 million!'" The player elected to receive her prize as a one-time lump sum payment of about $693,

A woman gave her brother some money to buy a lottery ticket for her, and it turned out to be a winner. A LOTERIA™ GRANDE Scratcher that cost $10 ended up with a $1 million prize. But the woman didn't know she was a winner until her brother called her last year.

A woman in Kent County is planning on buying a home after winning the lottery. The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, one $1 million from a scratch-off ticket, the Michigan Lottery said in a release.