An Iowa woman collected a $150,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket she fished out of her stocking on Christmas morning. Taylor Caffrey, 25, of Grimes, told Iowa Lottery officials her mother has a tradition of stuffing the family's stockings with lottery tickets.

David Webb of Stokesdale tried his luck on Digital Instants on Tuesday and won a $545,885 progressive jackpot! Webb played a $1 ticket and won the top level ‘Epic jackpot’ in the Wheel of Bonuses game. Congrats on the win, David! https://t.co/Z2nJCfQIbq pic.twitter.com/BgozR8KMm6

A man had to step away from a holiday party to make sure a Christmas gift from his friend — a lottery ticket — was really a winner. The friend gifted two lottery tickets to a married couple at an annual holiday party shortly before Christmas, according to a Dec. 26 news release from the Maryland Lottery.

If someone wins the Christmas Eve Mega Millions grand prize, it ill be the largest jackpot ever won in the month of December.

It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.22 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,

“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a news release before the jackpot rose again to $1.22 billion.