One player went home with $100,000 after consulting a chatbot — could you make similar magic ahead of Friday's big drawing?

A lucky person bought a Powerball ticket for a drawing on Wednesday evening, November 12, and it ended up matching all but one of the numbers making it worth $1 million, according to the Virginia Lottery.

Stedman resident William Cox was playing his favorite digital instant game on Oct. 24, when he put $5 toward the jackpot, according to an Oct. 30 news release from the NC Education Lottery. The game is called The Lamp: Dark Arts, and Cox played into the “Cadabra” jackpot, according to the release.

An Ohio woman picked the wrong lottery ticket by mistake, and it landed her on a television game show. The Minster woman was buying a scratch-off lottery ticket from a self-serve kiosk when she accidentally hit the wrong button, according to a Nov. 6 news release from the Ohio Lottery.

And it’s a good thing Murphy listened to his intuition at the Brentwood liquor store. It led him to a $50,000 prize. “I was in shock,” Murphy told lottery officials. Murphy usually buys tickets for the D.C. Lottery but opted to play in Maryland with some encouragement from his sister-in-law.

The UAE Lottery has confirmed that the recently won Dh100-million jackpot will be paid as a tax-free lump sum “in a single transaction, without deductions or installments”.

A California Lottery player had to double-check his winning scratchers ticket before celebrating his $1 million win, officials said. A regular player since 2010, S. Moten picked up his luck “50x the Cash” ticket at a 7-Eleven in Inglewood, lottery officials said in a Nov. 4 news release. He scratched it off after returning home but had some doubts.

A South Carolina couple scored a $200,000 win on their favorite college team’s scratch-off ticket. “We love the Gamecocks,” they told South Carolina Education Lottery officials.

Powerball was 23. The Powerplay was 2X. The estimated jackpot for this drawing was $512 million with the cash option of $239.1 million. No ticket matched the numbers to win the jackpot or the Match 5 plus Power Play $2 million prize.