When the Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots climb into triple-digit million levels, we are pinned to our screens waiting to see who won. That's not just life-changing money, that sort of thing ...

The Texas Lottery launched a new suite of holiday-theme scratch ticket games worth more than $78.1 million in total prizes. There are four new scratch-off games available wherever tickets are sold.

New Yorkers have nearly two dozen chances to turn a few bucks into tens of thousands of dollars with a simple scratch. The New York Lottery has various $3 scratch-off games with top-prizes of $60,000.