Players won $862,892 in jackpots in daily Fantasy 5 drawings in the past week, the California State Lottery said. The biggest winners from Saturday, Dec. 27, to Sunday, Jan. 4, split a $330,000 jackpot to win $111,524 each, the lottery said.

"Fantasy 5players in California are hoping 2026 is as good as the year that just ended," the California Lottery news release states. "The best 10 wins in 2025 saw between $346,000 and more than $600,000 in winnings – nearly $3.7 million in total."

What’re the odds? Luck? Coincidence? Florida, California, Mega Millions lottery drawings had 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 consecutive numbers.

The top 12 scratchers players in California scored $145 million in prizes in 2025, according to state lottery winners. The California State Lottery has more than 50 scratch-off games, with new games launching each month. Players buy a ticket, which costs from $1 to $40, and scratch it off to see if they won.

The winning ticket from Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing was sold at a 7-Eleven located at 4092 Chino Hills Parkway in Chino Hills. It matched five numbers and just missed the red Powerball and $1.8 billion, the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.

In 2022, Edwin Castro became biggest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball. 2 years later, California wildfires impacted one of his homes.

While it wasn’t the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, someone in Southern California woke up on Christmas with a lot more money than they had on Christmas Eve. The much-anticipated Powerball

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Marvin and Mae Acosta bought $1.586 billion Powerball ticket at a California 7-11, said they would dedicate some prize money to a trust and charities.