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With the holidays creeping up, most of us are bracing for crowded stores, tangled lights, and that annual internal debate over whether fruitcake is actually edible. But one southern Illinois lottery player just unlocked a much better seasonal surprise: the top prize on a $1,000,000 Holiday Gold scratch-off ticket.

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Here’s a story that feels like it was written by the universe just to make us believe in karma again. Eugene Girard, a dad from Norwood, Massachusetts, plays the same lottery numbers every week — not because he’s a math genius or a gambler, but because those numbers mean something to him. They’re “sentimental,” as he puts it. Most people’s sentimental numbers just sit there collecting dust. Eugene’s? They decided to work overtime.

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Luck, timing, and a Michigan player who outsourced her numbers to a chatbot—and walked away $100,000 happier. Tammy Carvey, 45, isn’t a daily lottery grinder. She waits for the big multi-state jackpots to get interesting. When Powerball climbed past $1 billion ahead of the September 6 drawing, she did something very 2025: she asked ChatGPT for numbers, bought her ticket on the Michigan Lottery website, and called it a day.

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So, picture this. You just won $2 million. Do you scream? Do you quit your job in dramatic fashion? Or do you calmly walk into the lottery office dressed like cash itself? That’s exactly what one Washington, D.C. woman did.

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Imagine waiting 31 years to take your honeymoon. Three decades of life, bills, kids, work, laundry — and every time you say, “We’ll do it next year,” next year turns into the next decade.

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So here’s a fun life experiment: go to sleep with £12.40 in your account and wake up with £1,000,012.40. Adam Lopez, 39, did exactly that thanks to a National Lottery scratch-off. One minute he’s driving a forklift; the next he’s throwing keys to a Range Rover Sport (and an Evoque for Mum, because you don’t forget the woman who taught you to parallel park and tolerate your decisions).

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Here’s the scene: Friday night, EuroMillions draw. Numbers roll in — 06, 12, 18, 25, 41 with Lucky Stars 02 and 06 — and somewhere in the UK, one ticket matches the lot. No confetti cannon, no victory parade. Just a single winner quietly stepping forward to claim £26 million.

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Winning the lottery is supposed to be the hard part. Figuring out what to do with the money? That’s the fun part—unless you’re William Wheeler.

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