The first jackpot winners have already struck lucky with the new UK Health Lottery. Two women have claimed the top prize of £100,000 each in the very first draw. Both win the full prize as the Health Lottery has fixed prizes for each prize tier. Both winners have chosen to stay anonymous, but one of [...]
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First UK Health Lottery Winners
October 11th, 2011
Category: Lottery Winners · Quick Pick Winners · UK Lotto
UK Winner Claims EuroMillions £101M Jackpot
October 9th, 2011
The EuroMillions rollover Superdraw jackpot of £101,203,600 has been won by a single ticket bought in the UK. As yet the winner has not been identified, but they have made contact with Camelot by phone to confirm their winning ticket and claim the prize. EuroMillions have yet to advise if the winner is a sole [...]
Category: EuroMillions Lottery · Lottery Winners
ASDA Workers Lottery Syndicate Win £6.8M
October 7th, 2011
A lottery syndicate of ASDA workers from Hyde in Greater Manchester have just collected £6,873,588. They won the UK Lotto jackpot which had rolled over to last Saturday. The group is made up of 16 supermarket workers all from the ASDA store in Hyde, who only started playing the lottery together in January last year. [...]
Category: Lottery Syndicate Winners · Lottery Winners · UK Lotto
Woman Sold Wrong Lottery Ticket Wins $25 Million
October 6th, 2011
It could easily have gone the wrong way and ended up being one of those crazy US court cases where everybody sues anybody. Instead Kathy Scruggs, 44, walked away $25 Million richer. Kathy, who lives in Georgia, went to buy a ticket for Mega Millions. She asked for a Mega Millions quick pick, but the [...]
Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners · Mega Millions Lottery · Powerball Lottery · Quick Pick Winners
Train Geek Spends £1 Million Winnings Turning Disused Station Into Home
October 2nd, 2011
It probably wasn’t quite the luxury home his wife had in mind. But Mark Benbow did keep his promise. Mark, 38, is a railway worker and self-confessed train enthusiast. So when he became a millionaire with the EuroMillions lottery, the big house was always going to have a room for his train set. But even [...]
Category: EuroMillions Lottery · Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners
3.2 Million Reasons Jim Is Glad He Stuck With The Work Lottery Pool
September 30th, 2011
Jim Pollock left his job with Rempel Bros. Concrete over 3 years ago. But he made sure he kept paying his dues to the work lottery pool to this day. Which turned out to be one the best decisions Jim ever made, when the lottery pool of 22 hit the jackpot with Canada’s 649 Lottery [...]
Category: Canada Lottery · Lottery Syndicate Winners · Lottery Winners
Winning Lottery Ticket Stuck To Fridge For 2 Months
September 28th, 2011
Craig Henshaw was too busy travelling through Europe to realise he had become a millionaire back home in Toronto. And for 2 whole months while woodwork teacher Craig travelled with his girlfriend, the multi-million dollar lottery ticket sat there stuck to his fridge door. But he’ll never forget the day he finally got round to [...]
Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners · Quick Pick Winners
Thief Returns $50,000 Lottery Ticket
September 25th, 2011
John Holder bought a ‘Jumbo Bucks’ scratch card whilst at a gas station. He scratched it, and realised he was $50,000 richer before he even left the store. The store assistant told him he should sign the back of the winning ticket right away, which he did, and also took a copy of the ticket [...]
Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners · Scratch Off Winners
Eureka, $2,500 A Week for Life!
September 22nd, 2011
Wendy Rush, 67, just hit the top prize on a ‘$2,500 A Week for Life’ scratch card. Although she lives in Eureka, a small city of 5,000 people in Illinois, she is not known to have shouted Eureka on realising her win. Opting for the lump sum payment, Wendy will receive a check for $1.9 [...]
Category: Lottery Winners · Scratch Off Winners
Jackpot Winner Stands Tall Against School Bullies
September 20th, 2011
Charmaine Watson, 31, won £2.3 Million on the UK Lotto six years ago. And now it turns out she used some of that money to help fund an anti-bullying rock musical that opens in London in October. A victim of ongoing bullying when she was at secondary school Charmaine knows all too well the misery [...]
Category: Lottery Winners · UK Lotto