Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Who doesn’t love a crazy or funny lottery story..? Give normal everyday people a lottery jackpot and some of them just cannot help but go totally crazy.

Man Called ‘Fortune’ Wins $5M on NY Lottery

September 10th, 2012

Ever come across that phrase of ‘living up to your name’.

Well, in David Fortune’s case he just has, by collecting a $5 Million win on the New York lottery.

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UK Lotto 2nd Prize Beats Jackpot

September 3rd, 2012

In a particularly unusual draw result on Saturday, for the 2nd prize winner at least, the UK Lotto is about to pay out less to the jackpot winner than to the Match 5 plus Bonus Ball prize.

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24 Years For Florida Lotto Winner – I Knew I’d Get There!

August 28th, 2012

Nancie Zimmerman, 51, has been playing the Florida Lotto for 24 years – with the same numbers.

But she says she knew her numbers would come up one day, but she was still thrilled to be collecting her share of the $17 Million jackpot from 15th August draw.

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Win The Beijing Lottery And You Get Permission To Buy A Car…

August 28th, 2012

Winning the lottery would be a life changing event for most of us, but the Beijing license lottery is not quite as life changing as you might hope.

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Bizarre Presidents Beach Party Lottery Ad [video]

August 23rd, 2012

Not up to my current favourite lottery ad (that’s Cornelius who invented long division of course :-)), but not bad.

Here we have the former US presidents partying with girls on a beach, to promote the New York lotteries Cash Blast scratch-off ticket.

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Million Dollar Ticket Left In Car For a Week

August 23rd, 2012

A man in his twenties from Cairns, Australia, was thrilled to discover the ticket he had left lying around in his car was actually worth $1 Million.

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Lottery Winner Gives Ticket To Beggar – Now Wants Money Back After He Won $260,000!

August 19th, 2012

Million dollar lottery winner Emily Leach gave a Mega Millions lottery ticket to a beggar outside the store where she bought her tickets.

The beggar was more than happy with her donation when the ticket turned out to be worth $260,000.

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Forgot His Wife’s Age & Won £1.9M

August 19th, 2012

Paddy from Ireland played a selection of lucky numbers as a lot of people do.

But one of his numbers was his wife’s age. Fortunately Paddy picked 48, even though his wife was actually now 49.

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Lottery Winner Wants To Reform Guns N’ Roses

August 16th, 2012

Adrian Bayford, winner of £148 Million said one of his dreams for the money would be to get the original line-up of Guns N’ Roses back together.

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Same Winning Numbers Sold Just Streets Apart

August 15th, 2012

The Irish lottery have revealed two tickets each claiming €250,000 in Saturday night’s Lotto Plus draw, were bought at shops just a few hundred meters away from each other.

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