From an Arkansas man trusting computer-generated numbers to a Missouri woman favoring a habitual scratch-off ticket, these stories show the different approaches to winning big. In one case, a lottery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Maryland Lottery player's strategy of only buying the most recently-released scratch-off tickets earned her a $100,000 prize.

The winner plans to possibly take a vacation with his wife and invest the remaining funds, lottery officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto To win big, it turns out all a Maryland man had to do was ...

(WXYZ) — The Mega Millions is nearing $1 billion ahead of the drawing on Friday night, and the Powerball is at an estimated $750 million ahead of Saturday's drawing ...

One man is crediting his large lottery prize in Maryland to his winning strategy. A Prince George’s County resident discovered he won thousands of dollars from a scratch-off ticket he bought at a gas ...

Some lottery players take their time carefully picking their tickets, fixating on the right set of numbers. But for a Maryland woman, her strategy is simple: have no strategy. ”I just play,” the ...

An anonymous 38-year-old man won over $7 million after changing the way he strategized playing the game (and some advice from dad.) According to the Michigan Lottery, the May 22 win was the largest ...

In 2016, Nicholas Kapoor, a professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, bought a lottery ticket to teach his statistics students about mathematical probability. “I always buy a Powerball ticket ...

To win big, it turns out all a Maryland man had to do was look at his strategy - and abandon it entirely. The Baltimore man usually buys lottery tickets at a gas station near his home, Maryland ...