Joseph Amorese’s Dad had a sent him a get-well card with a “$7,000,000 Golden Ticket” instant lottery ticket tucked inside.  If his Dad meant to lift Amorese’s spirits, he succeeded.

About two and a half years ago Gary Schei of East Linton in East Lothian decided it would be more fun to play the lottery in a syndicate. 

Cliff Yaldo works at the family-owned Livonia Liquor Shop, in Livonia.  The store also generates a lot of lottery ticket sales, not all of them to customers.

A few people who may not even have played the lottery suddenly became much richer when their fathers won significant jackpots; a man who won a million dollars will share with two sons, and another who won $1,000 a day for life will share the bounty with his son.

Real-estate broker Tammy Pratt does not play the lottery very much.  She only buys one ticket for the Mega millions whenever the jackpot exceeds $100 million. 

Question:  How do you walk into a store and walk out a millionaire many times over?  Gerard Kaizer from Georgia will tell you: buy a winning instant ticket!

A Saskatoon bus driver used the same number combination for thirty years, only having to add an extra number when the game turned to Super 7. 

Though four-leaf clovers are usually associated with the Irish, they are also believed to bring luck.   The Iowa Lottery plans to use four-leaf clovers to portray lottery luck, even if the innovative designs will not be ready in time for St.

Paraeducator Bill Delmatoff had been playing Oregon’s Megabucks Lottery for some time.  But as he bought his usual tickets, something made him plunk $4 more for Powerball tickets. 

Some lottery players sometimes brave rain and snow just to get entries to the games of their choice.  But there are also many cases of people neglecting their lottery tickets – some of them worth a lot of money.