I had a winning ticket in the national lottery and won 5,000 Kz. Exciting as that sounds, it works out to a little over 50 USD. Has any other Dopers won a lottery prize ?
A few years back I won 360ish dollars. (Of course, that doesn’t nearly match all that I’ve spent over the many years.)
I actually felt bad too, because the girl behind the counter kept saying: WOW!
I almost offered to give her some, but didn’t want to come off as the creepy old man.
I won $100 day after I got laid off last month on a scratch off. Won $150 on the Megamillions/Powerball a couple years ago. I bought a Bookcase from Ikea.
$396. The New York lottery pays out all of the prizes as a percentage of the jackpot so 4th and 5th places can pay out a lot when the jackpot is huge. I’ve won trivial amounts on Powerball tickets. Unless you win the big one for that the payouts are fixed. So you can win with 3 numbers, but the payout is trivial.
I won $3 just this past week! 
It was on a $6 ticket. 
My mother won $1000 when I was a kid. She broke her toe when she stubbed it on the doorframe while running to phone grandma and tell her.
I hadn’t bought a scratcher ticket in months and months, so last week I bought two $3 crossword tickets.
I like the crossword and bingo ones because they take so long to do, I feel that I’m getting my money’s worth.
Between the two, I won $10. So I’m up $4 on the year!
The best I ever did was quite a while ago, I bought a half dozen dollar scratchers to start off with, and between free tickets and winning $5-$10 here and there, ended up walking out of the gas station with about $50. I was with my brother on the way to go squirrel hunting, so it paid for our ammo, gas, and lunch for the day.
I thought Angola was run by soi-disant Marxists?
Ahem. My girlfriend once got a gift of fake scratch-off tickets. She realized this only after one of them “won”.
Grrrrr…I have a story about that happening to me, in fact I related it on this board maybe a year ago.
Note to freaking everybody: Those are ‘not’ funny.
What really made the person who gave it to me feel like a shitheel, was that I was going to give him a cut of the $10,000 ‘prize’.
In the 70’s my grandparents won $100,000.00 With that they were able to buy a new house and a boat.
I’ve won lots of little prizes, like $5-10 on scratchers, but one time I won $300 on a scratcher.
According to my old apartment manager, who I was quite friendly with, the couple below my apartment won $100,000 on a scratcher and moved out to buy a house. I was so happy because they were assholes.
Every now and then I’ll buy a few scratch-offs. I almost always (90-95% of the time) break even.
My mom won a thousand dollar prize on two different occasions.
Well, you could have offered to give her some and a share of the cash as well.
Way back when I was living in Berlin with my SO, we both played lottery every week. I had to go work in Switzerland for two months and handed him my most recent lottery ticket.
Off I go.
Two months later I return. Two days later we were scheduled to go on a long vacation to the USA. I had a huge stack of mail and went through it and one letter was from the German Lottery. I opened it and it basically said, “When are you coming to pick up your winnings?”
I asked my SO and he claimed I hadn’t won anything. Luckily, back in those days, you could write your name and address on the lottery tickets (that was submitted) and I had done so. To be safe, I had put both his name and my name on the ticket, with our address. That is how they were able to contact me.
Off we go to the Lottery Office in Berlin. SO couldn’t find a parking spot, so I went up to the offices alone.
The ticket was a winner of $3,500! (A nice sum now, but a really, really nice sum back then!)
They asked where my SO was and I said, “Oh, he couldn’t find a parking spot, and besides, he was the one who lost the original ticket.”
They laughed and said, “OK. Here is YOUR winnings then!”
I hit 2 numbers AND the powerball once. A whopping $7.
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I won $25 on a scratch off ticket I didn’t even buy. When we were kids (ok, more like teenagers), we used to take long walks with friends, and we’d all scour for coins on the sidewalk and see who would end up with the most money by the end of the walk. One day, in front of a local bar, I saw a pile of five scratched-off lottery tickets of the “match-3-to-win-the-prize” kind. I decided to pick it up and check it, just for shits and giggles. One of the scratched off tickets had three $25 dollar values. I checked a couple times, made sure I knew the rules, then took the ticket to a local convenience store to cash it. Took all my friends out for pizza that night.
I bought a single lottery ticket the day I proposed.
My newly-minted fiancee and I scratched it off together. There was no monetary value, but I felt like I’d won a million bucks.
We still have it, framed.
It’s still paying out – I still feel wealthy.
Sailboat: Wait’ll you get the bill for back taxes owed.
When my daughter was 12 she got invited to a family luncheon with her close friend. Turned out the “luncheon” was really a press party to announce that her friend’s Grampa had won $16,000,000 and was sharing it equally with his 3 adult offspring. So she won a free meal in a 16mil giveaway. That pretty much sums up our family’s luck streak.