Jacqueline Mangus, who works as a nurse in Moneta, won $1 million in the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 29 news release. “I was tickled to death,” she told lottery officials.

An unknown lottery winner has a choice between $1,000 a week for life or $1 million up front, according to the Missouri Lottery. The winning ticket for the multistate Cash4Life game was sold by a Casey’s convenience store in Cole Camp, Missouri.

I went running to tell my husband and when I got to him, he thought something was wrong,” the woman told Michigan lottery officials.

The New York Lottery announced one top-prize winning ticket — worth $31,423.50 — was sold for the Jan. 29 TAKE 5 evening drawing. It was sold at Cold Cut City, located at 230A Atlantic Ave. #A, in Oceanside, New York.

A Missouri lottery player was surprised to see an “instant win symbol” when she scratched off her ticket, but she was later shocked to learn the total amount of her prize. “I thought, ‘OK, I won $5,’” the player recalled after revealing the first “instant win symbol,” she told Missouri lottery officials, according to a Jan. 29 news release.

Someone won $50,000 playing Mega Millions after matching four numbers and the Mega Ball in the Jan. 28 drawing, just missing the estimated $44 million jackpot, the Georgia Lottery said. The winning ticket was sold at a Kroger fuel station in Tucker, according to lottery officials.

A Florida lottery player scored a huge windfall — but might not know it yet. The player bought a Fantasy 5 game ticket that matched all the numbers picked in Jan. 28’s evening drawing, making it worth nearly $110,