LOTTERYPowerball jackpot winners score big through the yearsPowerball winner Melvin Rhodes, left, with his grandson, Mike, jokes with cashier Mollie Cox while buying lottery tickets on April 21, 2000, at Ray's Superior Food Market in Whitley County, Ky. Every Friday for 12 years Rhodes has made the 48-mile drive from his home in Clinton to purchase $35 worth of tickets. His diligence paid off when he won the $79.7 million jackpot. Rhodes died in September 2004 at age 78.Paul Efird/News SentinelJuan Mendez-Galarza of Paterson, N.J. bought a $1 million winning Powerball ticket at W & R Mini Market & Deli in August of 2017. When scanning one of the three tickets he purchased, he placed his hand on his forehead, realizing he was $1 million richer. "I was always thinking if I get the ticket lottery, I want to keep working," Mendez-Galarza said. "I just want to have a better life, but still live my life normally."Amy Newman/NorthJersey.comFort Dodge's Timothy Guderian won a Powerball jackpot prize worth $200.8 million in October 2006. "We played the lottery about twice a month, but never expected to win," Tim said, shown here during press conference Wed Oct. 4, 2006, at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa.Rodney White/The RegisterMary and Brian Lohse won a Powerball jackpot prize worth $202.1 million in Bondurant, Iowa, in October 2012. Lottery CEO Terry Rich congratulated the winners at a news conference after the couple claimed the prize.Rodney White/The RegisterAfter receiving a ceremonial check at the Louisville Slugger Museum, Powerball winner David Edwards, of Westwood, Ky., answered reporters' questions with partner Shawna Maddux at his side. Edwards won $27 million in 2001 from his share of a $280 million jackpot.Courier-Journal ArchivesCharles W. Jackson Jr. is introduced as the winner of a Powerball jackpot on June 4, 2019 at the N.C. Education Lottery headquarters. For more than two years, Jackson has played Powerball with the same numbers twice a week.Travis Long, APIowa couple Brian and Mary Loshe of Bounderant won a Powerball jackpot worth $202.1 million in the fall of 2012. The couple has poured millions into their community, even setting a record for donations toward city park improvements.Rodney White/The RegisterPowerball jackpot winner Marie Holmes claimed the $188 million prize in Feb. 2015. "I thought I was going to have a heart attack when I saw the ticket and checked it," Holmes told WECT. Holmes, who is not a frequent lottery player, said she was forced to quit her jobs at Walmart and McDonald's to care for her children, one of whom has cerebral palsy.NC EDUCATION LOTTERY/SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN-TIMESDave Resnick of Sheboygan, Wis. attended a press conference with his daughter on June 25, 2014. Resnick is a $1 million Powerball state lottery winner. Resnick had been buying lottery tickets every day for 26 years, and it paid off in a big way. "I kept saying, 'One of these days I'm going to get lucky,'" he said. "And I got lucky."Kali Thiel/Sheboygan Press MediaTayeb Souami of Little Ferry, N.J. was introduced as a $351.3 Million Powerball Winner in June of 2018. He purchased the winning ticket in Hackensack. As an accountant, Souami said it's all about numbers. And the number he saw on his winning ticket the day after he bought it was a good one. “I’m very emotional right now,” he said, both hands holding the lectern during the announcement. “I like the number.”Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.comMembers of a group of nine lottery winners, co-workers at APAC Customer Services in Green Bay, Wis., show off their checks at Festival Foods in Bellevue in October 2014. The group split $1 million in Powerball winnings and planned to keep working at APAC while rattling off debts and other costs.File/Press-Gazette MediaJim Scroggins, then-executive director of the Oklahoma Lottery, presents Don and Joyce Harvey with a Powerball check on Friday, June 29, 2007 during a news conference in Oklahoma City. The Harveys are the state's largest winners of the Oklahoma lottery winning a $105.8 million jackpot.THE OKLAHOMAN FILEManuel Franco, 24, was the winner of a $768.4 million Powerball jackpot on April 23, 2019. With him are Wisconsin Department of Revenue Secretary Peter Barca, Wisconsin Lottery Director Cindy Polzin and Moola, the lottery mascot. At the time, the prize was the largest jackpot in the Wisconsin Lottery's history, and the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal SentinelPowerball winners Tiffany Robinson and her mother Lisa Robinson, Rebecca Hargrove, Tennessee Lottery President & CEO, and Powerball winner John Robinson, hold a check during a press conference at the Tennessee Lottery office on Jan. 15, 2016 in Nashville, Tenn. The $528 million Powerball jackpot marked a record-setting day for the Tennessee Lottery, with $18.9 million in tickets sold. Regardless of the winnings, the Robinsons said they planned to go back to work as usual.Andrew Nelles / The TennesseanPowerball winner Julie Leach, of Three Rivers, Mich., holds a ceremonial check during a news conference at lottery headquarters in Lansing, Mich. Leach won a $310.5 million Powerball jackpot in the Sept. 30, 2015 drawing. “When I saw I had matched three, I remember thinking: ‘Well, that’s pretty cool, I won like $200,’” she said. “When I saw I had matched all five numbers, I just couldn’t believe it. I must have checked and rechecked my ticket 10 times.”Mavis L. Wanczyk, right, poses with Massachusetts state treasurer Deborah Goldberg on Aug. 24, 2017, after coming forward only hours after winning the $758 million multi-state Powerball lottery jackpot.Barry Chin, The Boston Globe Via EPA