The player won the top prize of $500,000 by playing Home For The Holidays, an Ohio Lottery scratch-off game. The Ohio Lottery said that the winner purchased their ticket at Suburban Mart, located on the 1100 block of East State Street in Salem. According to the press release, after taxes, the winner will take home approximately $360,000.

A lottery player turned a $1 ticket from a Florida gas station into a nearly $120,000 prize. According to results from the Florida Lottery, a Fantasy 5 ticket sold at a Shell convenience store in Edgewater hit the top prize in the Dec.

Spaniards have been anticipating the arrival of “El Gordo” or “The Fat One” for weeks. That's the name of the first prize in Spain’s hugely popular national Christmas lottery.

Spain's world-famous "El Gordo" Christmas lottery distributed a record more than €2.7 billion ($2.8 billion) on Sunday, with the lucky winners holding tickets with the number 72,480 in Logroño in La Rioja in northern Spain.

Spain’s 200-year-old holiday lottery "The Fat One" delivered a hefty prize again this year, with over $2.8 billion in prizes warbled out by school children and watched live around the world.