Spotting a sign about an unclaimed lottery prize, an Iowa woman made a post on Facebook hoping to get the attention of the ticket holder before the deadline to claim the thousands of dollars passed. “That was bugging me all week and I just thought, ‘I’ve got to put something on there,” Anne Rodriguez told officials.

One small decision prompted by a store clerk turned into a “six-figure payday” for a South Carolina lottery player, officials said. The Summerville man was cashing a “small winning ticket,” when the clerk asked if he’d like to buy one more, according to a Sept. 20 news release from the South Carolina Education Lottery.

A winning $1 million lottery ticket was claimed on Thursday from a $10 scratch ticket game — but the lottery player got their prize without releasing their name.

The last Lotto 47 winner before the Macomb County man announced this week was a Wayne County man who won $7.19 million in May. The prize marked Michigan Lottery's largest online winnings ever, officials said at the time.

A New York man bought a lottery ticket while visiting a friend in Massachusetts and won a $1 million top prize.

A player in Springfield, IL won the $1 million top prize on a $10 Gold Multiplier Instant Ticket purchased at Fas Mart, located at the Marathon gas station at 3801 South 6th Street.

This store in Massachusetts, located right by the New Hampshire border, sold a winning $100,000 lottery ticket on Wednesday.