One time, when Power Ball was REALLY a large amount, I bought several tickets for $3.00 each.
The multiplier was 3, and when I won $9.00, it was tripled to $27.00. The “largest” amount I ever won. It didn’t make up for all the tickets I bought that were worthless.
A number of years ago, (now) former New Hampshire Senator Gregg won $200,000 playing Power Ball. It was configured differently back then. There must have been a multiplier in effect because his total haul was $600,000!
Some people here in Maine have had luck with scratch off tickets.
A young woman who worked down the road in a small neighborhood supermarket and lunch counter went to a charity event in another town.
She bought a raffle ticket; the prize was a basket of scratch off lottery tickets. She won the basket.
Most of the scratch offs were duds, but one was worth $100,000. After state and local taxes, she had about $77,000 left.
There was another woman in another small Maine town. She was about 60 and looked down and out.
She went to play Bingo and won $2,000. She used her winnings to buy 100 $20 scratch off lottery tickets.
Again, most were duds, but one ticket was a winner....$500,000!
Awhile ago when one of these lotteries was way up there I went down the rabbit hole of what happened to the winners. Lots of stories of folks that spent big, got divorced, went broke, or worse. One story had the couple divorced and both were found dead in their own mansions weeks after they had died alone. Nobody missed them.
And then there were the numerous stories where the couple went on a nice vacation, bought a new car and carpeting for their home and repaired the plumbing, donated a bunch to their church and put the rest in trust funds for their kids and grandkids.