The 20 members of the Quaker Oats lottery syndicate that won the $241 Million Powerball jackpot has been revealed.

They originally resisted publicity, and it was thought they were going to seek a legal injunction to prevent their names being released.

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Dana screamed in the car, and her mum and aunt thought she had gone into labour.

But instead 7 month pregnant, single mum, Dana had just scratched off a lottery ticket.

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His son was pretty happy after winning just $1,000 with a scratch-off ticket on Friday.

But then the man from Cranston checked his Wild Money ticket on Saturday night to find he had just scooped the jackpot.

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Wales is generally not the first place you think of as the home of pro cage fighting.

But that’s where new EuroMillions millionaire Gavin Davies lives, in Neath, South Wales.

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Daniel Bruckner only played the Mega Millions occasionally. But with a headline jackpot of $206 Million he figured it was worth risking a few dollars.

The 35 year old financial analyst has now been revealed as the official sole jackpot winner of the Mega Millions draw for 27th December.

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It must be every generation Y teenagers dream, to start life out by just casually winning the lottery.

The rest of us know that life just doesn’t come that easy.

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It was an embarassing week for the Illinois lottery, when winners started complaining that their winnings checks were not being honoured by the bank!

In all 85 winners with winnings totalling over $159,000 were affected.

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It was less than a year ago the syndicate of 16 workers from Montebello Unified School District won $12 Million on the Lotto.

And they just struck it lucky again, this time from playing Mega Millions.

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Kathleen Crewe kept her winning lottery ticket in what she thought was a very safe place.

Being somewhat more careful than many lottery players, she not only tucked her ticket safely inside a thermos flask.

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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.

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