When a Maryland woman had a serendipitous moment while sitting in traffic, she took it “as a sign of good fortune.” The woman was idling in traffic when a license plate caught her eye, Maryland Lottery officials said in a Jan. 23 news release. The license plate number included her late father’s birthday, lottery officials said.

A lottery player has a big reason to celebrate after scoring a life-changing win in North Carolina. The player bought a Carolina Cash 5 game ticket that matched all the numbers picked in the Jan. 21 drawing, making it worth $110,000, results show. The winning numbers: 3-7-8-11-21.

A North Carolina man scored a $120,000 jackpot from a Cash 5 lottery drawing less than four years after winning an even larger sum.

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.

Abdellatif Tlili of Raleigh stuck with the numbers 8-8-8-8 in the Pick 4 game for years and his persistence paid off with a $100,000 win! “It was my dream to win,” he said. His 20 lucky tickets were from Online Play. Congrats, Abdellatif! https://t.co/vvPCwi4Uk0 pic.twitter.com/FjwTyLcptR