Church goer and grandfather of 7 just won $1 Million on a $2 scratcher in East Texas.

Here is Bernardo Orozco telling his story:-

He only bought two tickets, the first of which lost, but the second was the million dollar winner.

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.

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.

Donnie does play the lottery most days so perhaps isn’t your typical lottery players – but even he was surprised when he managed 2 x $50,000 wins in a month.

Dave did say he wanted to get a place near to Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea Football Club.

Well now he has.

The £3.5 Million apartment is in a plush apartment block in Chelsea Harbour.

The shop worker from Manchester who stole a winning lottery ticket from 78 year old Maureen Holt has been jailed.

Farrakh Nizzar, 30, scanned her ticket in the shop but told her it had won nothing.

Some towns seem to get more winners don’t they?

And we’ve all heard of lucky shops which have sold big winning tickets. Wouldn’t you rather buy your ticket there?

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.

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.

On Wednesday lottery officials presented a big cardboard check to the owner of the store that sold a $2 Million winning powerball ticket. The store owner received $20,000 as a bonus.