A 63-year-old lottery player thought she was “having a heart attack” when she saw she hit the jackpot in Michigan. Photo by Michigan Lottery Connect A Michigan woman was so shocked after checking her lottery ticket that she felt like she was “having a heart attack.

A woman in southeastern North Carolina beat odds of 1 in 1,354,380 to be the first jackpot winner in the aptly named $1,000,000 Money Rush game. Barbara Jenkins, of Richlands, paid $10 for the scratch-off ticket, which means she got a $100,000 return for every buck she spent.

Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.

A ticket sold in Pensacola won a $111,892.95 prize in the Fantasy 5 evening drawing Jan. 22, and another player netted $107,178.78 in the game’s Jan. 21 drawing after purchasing

Someone won a Fantasy 5 jackpot worth $107,178.78 after matching all five numbers in the evening drawing Tuesday, Jan. 21, according to lottery officials. They purchased the lucky ticket at a Publix supermarket in North Fort Myers,