A teacher let a lottery-ticket gift sit in their car for weeks before learning it was a $500,000 winner, per a press release ...

The player soon learned they had won the game's top prize of $500,000. "I get (lottery tickets) as gifts, but I never imagined," the winner said. "For me this is life changing." ...

A young woman won big thanks to her father, who gave her a lottery ticket as a gift. In a statement on Wednesday, May 28, Massachusetts Lottery officials said Vanesa Menjivar Acosta from Norcross ...

A New Jersey teacher learned they won a lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket received as a gift, officials said. The ticket sat in the teacher’s car for weeks.

The Texas Lottery offered a warning parents ahead of Christmas that lottery tickets are "never appropriate" gifts for kids under the age of 18.

A New Jersey teacher learned they won a lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket received as a gift, officials said. The ticket sat in the teacher’s car for weeks.

A New Jersey teacher learned they won a lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket received as a gift, officials said. The ticket sat in the teacher’s car for weeks.

A New Jersey teacher learned they won a lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket received as a gift, officials said. The ticket sat in the teacher’s car for weeks.

A New Jersey teacher learned they won a lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket received as a gift, officials said. The ticket sat in the teacher’s car for weeks.

For weeks, however, some of the gifts sat in the teacher’s car, New Jersey Lottery officials said in a July 16 news release. “I had a stack of cards as gifts, and I had forgotten I left them ...