The USA must have the craziest and most restrictive lottery laws around. Other countries have been allowing players to buy lottery tickets online for many years. Other countries allow their residents to play in whatever lottery games around the world that they like. But the USA severely clamped down on it’s citizens freedoms a few [...]

It’s been a typically insane ending to the ‘crazy as usual’ business of the Spanish El Gordo lottery draw. El Gordo 2011 did not disappoint, with the Spanish queueing around street corners right up to the very last minute to buy their tickets. Reports of security guards drafted in for crowd control to beat back [...]

It’s not entirely rare for the wrong lottery results to appear. But normally it’s a third party – you know, a small newspaper printing last weeks numbers, or a regional TV show accidentally putting up last weeks graphic. Not this time. RTE is the Irish State broadcaster. They run the Irish lotto draw show. So [...]

Here comes the next big date in the EuroMillions Christmas promo. It’s a biggie. So do not miss the draw on 23rd December. There’s 25 very good reasons why.

The Daily Mail just reported that Professor Marcus du Sautoy recommends you pick your lottery numbers consecutively – because it ‘increases your chances of winning’. Unfortunately, whilst it made a good headline, the Daily Mail got their conclusions entirely wrong from the facts Professor du Sautoy gave them. Yes, Marcus did recommend you pick consecutive [...]

Lily Gallagher, 60, just won €5.1 Million  on the Irish lottery on Saturday. But she says she’ll wait till son Anthony, 31, comes home before she collects her winnings. Anthony left for Australia earlier this year as plumbing work had all but dried up in Co Louth where he lived. But bizarrely he heard about [...]

On Monday morning Wally Shihadeh was at the Louisiana lottery HQ, picking up his winnings of $709,106. But at the same time he was picking up his winners check, the Sheriff’s department was at his store in Minden collecting evidence to charge him with credit card fraud. By Wednesday Wally found himself a rich man [...]

Dave and Angie Dawes have been revealed as the winners of last Friday’s enormous EuroMillions jackpot. The couple who proved to be the sole winners have already received payment of £101,203,600.70 to their new exclusive private banking account. They have moved out of their £70 per week 1 bedroom flat in Wisbech, and plan to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]