Lottery officials said that two lottery players from Illinois are now millionaires after winning Wednesday's Powerball jackpot.

The big winner comes two weeks after a $3 million scratch-off in The Hunt for $3,000,000 game was sold in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County. That is also a $30 scratch-off game with a top prize of $3 million. In April, a $3 million scratch-off in the $3,000,000 Golden Ticket game was sold in Harrisburg.

After a Maryland woman scanned her lottery tickets, she couldn’t sleep — but for a good reason. The human resources specialist was on her lunch break July 7 and stopped by a Baltimore convenience store, where she bought some lottery tickets per the suggestion of a friend, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 11 news release.

The Lowcountry woman turned a $3 Cosmic Crossword scratch-off ticket into a $75,000 windfall, the South Carolina Education Lottery announced July 11. “I was in disbelief and shock,” she told lottery officials. The lucky winner bought her ticket at a Saint George convenience store in Dorchester County, according to lottery officials.

Saturday's drawing offers the largest lottery prize this weekend in Ohio, with Mega Millions at $80 million and Classic Lotto at $5.1 million.

A Connecticut Lottery player from Maine won a jackpot prize thanks to her father, according to Connecticut Lottery. Abby Biddeford won $50,000 from playing $50,000 Ca$hword after her father gave her the ticket because the scratch-off lottery game "took too long to play," according to Connecticut Lottery's winners page.

Someone in Massachusetts won $100,000 on Friday from a winning lottery ticket they bought at a shop called "Winner's Corner," located in this town.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A weekly paycheck worth thousands of dollars would be a big win for most New Yorkers, and the state’s lottery system offers just that. Top prizes for three “for life” games range in value from $1,000 a week for life to $10,000 a week for life, and all three games have top prizes still in circulation.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”