During a “ routine morning stop ” at a Vacaville gas station across the street from his work, Michael Wright bought a $10 Triple Red 777 scratch-off ticket, California Lottery officials said in a July 15 news release. Soon after, Wright said he “got to scratching” in his methodical way.

It’s National Lottery week, a time to celebrate lucky wins, life-changing moments and the stories behind the ticket winners.

More than 350,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $250,000, the lottery said.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot (five numbers plus the Powerball) are 1 in 292.2 million. The chances of taking home the Match 5 prize is 1 in 11.68 million, while the four numbers plus the Powerball has odds of 1 in 913,129.18.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are astronomical, so any little chance of improving them is welcome. These states seem to have the mojo.

A California woman has known for more than a decade good fortune would come her way. Since she won a $30,000 prize on a Mega Millions ticket in Arizona in 2011, Deborah Trullinger just knew, California Lottery officials said in a July 3 news release.

A pair of winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday night's drawing.