A California woman has known for more than a decade good fortune would come her way. Since she won a $30,000 prize on a Mega Millions ticket in Arizona in 2011, Deborah Trullinger just knew, California Lottery officials said in a July 3 news release.

Virginia man John Willis won $2 million in the April 29 Mega Millions drawing — and he initially didn't even realize he possessed the winning ticket. Willis had a 1 in 12,629,232 chance of winning that day,

A man finally cashed in his lottery ticket for $2 million last week, a ticket that was extra lucky as it had randomly picked numbers and was doubled in winnings after new Mega Millions rules.