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$100 bucks from Powerball, $20 bucks from Slots, free T shirt from the Marines (from passed their physical test at Texas State Fair), some parts and equipment for my SUV from a meet.

Those are prizes that I can recall.
 
dad won some sort of lotto or something in 88. Did lump payment and walked away with 280k iirc. Couple months ago he was playing hold'em and triggered a bonus and won 36k. The bonus was triggered when his four of a kind was beaten by a straight flush.

As for me, I won a $100 gift certificate at my high school graduation after party thing hosted by the PTA, and also won some sort of huge gift basket worth a couple hundred at my local Longs Drugs store. I'm pretty bad at cards so I usually let my dad gamble for the both of us.
 
umm...a cakewalk once at my elementary school carnival...and they friggin gave me a box of twinkies instead. On a more serious note, I'm on track to receive the 100% Florida Bright Futures Scholarship.
 
I have never one anything but my mom won a volvo and my aunt won a bmw z3. I almost won a bmw while at a golf tournament. It was a par 3 and my ball came within inches of the hole. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed.
 
Won a $100.00 "shopping spree" at a 7-11 once. I filled the car up with gas and then took the rest as junk food, as I seem to recall I had to spend it all in one go.

Won a TI-83+ in January from a raffle.

I know I've won other stuff, but I can't recall it all at the moment.
 
Nothing of any significant value in the last several years. A mouse pad from AMD.

But about 15 years ago or so, I was working at a place building motor homes. We had a company picnic one summer and they had a whole PILE of stuff they were giving away.Everyone stood in line and got a ticket with a number on it and when they drew your number you got your pick of what was there.

One of the guys I worked with had once gone out with the woman I was with at the time, and being a typical guy, he was hitting on my girlfriend all day. When it came time to get our tickets, he cut in line in front of me (so he could continue hitting on my date) and I ended up getting the ticket HE would have gotten (if he hadn't been a DICK!). The top prize, and the one EVERYONE wanted was a 17 1/2 foot fiberglass guide canoe. Guess who ended up getting it. 🙂 😛

That, my friends is the definition of INSTANT KARMA!
 
I won a set of speakers by playing that call-in trivia game on Call for Help (when Tech TV was decent), back when that little gnome guy hosted...Chris something or other.
 
All I can remember right now: $30 in a letter or essay (or something; foggy memory) contest the local paper had when I was 5 or 6 or something.
 
I won the most badass ps2 controller you could find 5 years ago... I lent it to someone and can't remember who... I don't have a psx or ps2...
 
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