KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A trip to a Blue Springs convenience store ended up making one Missouri Lottery player $150,000 richer. A Powerball ticket purchased at Happy Hour, located at 1801 N.W. Route 7, turned out to hold a $150,000 prize for the man.

This collection of stories highlights notable lottery wins across Missouri, with players turning small wagers into significant prizes. One Mega Millions player matched five numbers to claim $1 million, just missing an enormous jackpot. In Adrian, a Powerball player who believed he won $4 instead discovered a $50,000 windfall at a Casey’s store.

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, who won $2.04 billion Powerball lottery Nov. 7, 2022, opted for the lump sum, which was just shy of $1 billion.

After the record-setting $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot on Sept. 6, 2025, the Saturday, Oct. 11, prize was for $244 million.

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A Holden woman won a Show Me Cash jackpot and said she is considering donating part of her winnings to charity.

A Missouri woman was shocked when she saw she won a huge lottery prize on a scratch-off ticket. The woman bought the $5 Merry Money ticket at a store in West Plains, according to an Oct. 24 news release from the Missouri Lottery. “I stopped at Casey’s and grabbed a couple of tickets before work,” she told lottery officials.

The Missouri winner who won half of the nearly $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot has come forward to claim his massive prize, according to Missouri Lottery.

A Columbia business sold a lottery ticket that won a Boone County player a $3.2 million jackpot prize during the Oct. 15 lotto drawing, according to a news release from the Missouri Lottery. The winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased at Midwest Petroleum No 94 on South Providence Road in Columbia.

A Missouri woman was left in disbelief after she won a huge jackpot on a scratch-off lottery ticket. The woman knew which ticket she wanted to buy when she went into the O’Fallon store, but she had no idea how much she would win, according to a Nov. 3 news release from the Missouri Lottery.