Laura Smith and her husband, Tom, make Danielle Lam laugh after she surprises them with a check for $10,000 from the Prize Patrol from Publishers Clearing House at their Mukilteo home.

After 15 years of giving away nearly $300 million in prize money, Danielle Lam of Publishers Clearing House has seen just about every possible reaction from sweepstakes winners.

May 1, 2021 Updated Sat., May 1, 2021 at 12:18 p.m. Howie Guja, left, and Danielle Lam, of the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol, take a picture Friday after awarding a $1 million prize to ...

Lam and Guja flew to Sioux Falls from New York this weekend to deliver a $4.9 million prize to Steffes, who has entered the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes at least once a day for over a decade.