Double check those old tickets Wisconsin – because there are over $45 Million of lottery prizes left unclaimed.

Most of the prizes are for smaller amounts, but there are big prizes too such as a $1 Million winning Powerball ticket which was sold in Racine County back in August 2009.

Another lucky St Patricks day winner, Valerie Deziel, was shocked to discover she was the second prize winner in the Canda Lotto 6/49.

She told the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation:

I literally ran all the way home.

Lottery companies do have to deal with some fishy claims at times.

But some are more fishy than others. Such as the winner Camelot (UK) say kept their ticket ‘safely’ inside a packet of cat treats.

Things really had got that bad. Alison Hollick, 48, had lost her telesales job, and was in arrears with the mortgage.

With little other option, the house had been put up for sale and a buyer had already been found.

On Saturday night the biggest ever lottery win was claimed by a single ticket in Finland.

The winner, from Espoo in Finland, will collect the full jackpot sum of €7.5 Million.

Her mother thought she had been given a speeding ticket.

But the Government issued paperwork she had just pulled out of her purse was actually confirmation that she was an overnight millionaire.

Five workers from the HCL call centre will each be depositing £155,306 after their numbers came up on the UK Lotto last Wednesday.

The jackpot of £2,329,590 was shared by 3 winning tickets, making each ticket worth £776,530.

The Albany lottery winners have been revealed.

The lucky office pool of 7 that won last Friday’s Mega Millions have now been made public via a press conference in Schenectady, New York:

The pool of IT workers all put in $2 each when the jackpot is over $100 Million.

A popular postman from Cork won half of the €14Million Irish Lotto jackpot on Saturday.

Pat Broderick from Kinsale is a father of four, and husband of Mary.

It was supposed to be just a quiet Friday night in.

Both Paula George and Brad MacArthur were suffering from colds, so Brad stopped off to rent a DVD on the way home.