Congrats to 4 Lucky for Life players who scored big wins yesterday! Two Online Play tickets and a ticket from 7-Eleven on Croatan Highway in Kill Devil Hills won $5,000 prizes! Another Online Play ticket matched all 5 white balls to win $25,000 a year for life! pic.twitter.com/gR50dkvOVN

A woman spent $5 on a lottery game in Idaho, then won a big prize. Chelsey Reeder stopped at a Jacksons Food Stores in Meridian and bought a Triple 7s, the Idaho Lottery told McClatchy News by email Jan. 9. Reeder scratched her ticket, and it revealed she had won the game’s top prize of $77,777.

“We like to go on cruises,” the winner told lottery officials. “This will make it a lot sweeter next time.” It’s not the first time a lucky lottery player has planned for a vacation. Another North Carolina winner hoped to take a Caribbean cruise after he hit the jackpot, McClatchy News reported in May.

A Florida lottery player has more than 115,000 new reasons to smile. Someone matched all five numbers in the evening drawing Thursday, Jan. 9, to win a $116,958.66 jackpot, according to officials at the Florida Lottery. The lucky player scored the windfall on a ticket purchased at the Riverview Food Mart in Riverview, the lottery said.

A Chelsea man is the winner of a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “Bonus 100X” instant ticket game.

David Meehling, of Wilmington, bought a $1 Cash 5 ticket on Tuesday and won a $200,757 jackpot, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. “I was kind of stunned,” Meehling said. He bought his winning ticket from the Masonboro Country Store on Masonboro Loop Road in Wilmington.