Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.

There were no tickets sold matching all six numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery. One ticket was sold matching five numbers but not the Powerball in Texas and is worth $1 million.

A trip to the butcher shop paid off big for one Florida lottery player. The Fantasy 5 player matched all five numbers in the evening drawing Monday, Jan. 20, to win the $107,692.76 jackpot, according to the Florida Lottery.