Lotery syndicates are very thin on the ground in the USA.

Most of those that did exist got scared and closed down when the US Government introduced a bill designed to clamp down on online gambling.

Angela Sutherland from Wick, Caithness discovered their £282,940.50 win on the EuroMillions lottery, and waited an agonising 5 weeks before coming forward to claim the money.

The Irish National Lottery have come under fire this week, after a glitch was revealed on their website.

Hundreds of players checking their lottery results online for last Wednesday’s draw were told they had won a brand new Jaguar XK convertible, worth €150,000!

Gerald and Marjorie Selbee are both over 70, but they are not your typical pensioners.

Over a period of 3 days the couple from Massachusetts spent $314,000 each buying lottery tickets for the Massachusetts Cash WinFall lottery game.

A lottery pool from Toronto in Canada are celebrating claiming the Lotto Max jackpot from 22nd July.

Scanning his third Cash 5 ticket into the lottery machine, Ronald Flickinger was not exactly overwhelmed when it said ‘You won $1’.

His first two tickets were losers.

Chris Bowers, 61, just bought himself a new iPhone – he loves a good gadget.

So like every new iPhone owner, he has spent many happy hours downloading lots of extremely useful apps to while away the time…

Now the lottery app he downloaded didn’t help him pick his numbers, but it did check the Saturday night UK Lotto results for him:

We put the numbers in to check them, and you get little red dots or a green tick.

They may well be the luckiest family in North Carolina.

The McCauley family have racked up 3 big lottery wins over the years, with daughter Kimberly being the most recent winner just this week.

Ernie Stephens, 63, smiled and kissed his wife, Judy, 56, for the cameras at the Missouri Lottery news conference. He joked:

To most of us the prospect of winning half a million Euros would seem quite exciting.

But for one very lucky couple, it was just a mere ‘top up’, as they had already won €6.5 Million just 5 years ago.