Sometimes the youth surprise us simply by being much more mature than their seniors.  That seems to be the case with 17-year old Jane Park, who posted a £1 million lottery win in 2013 – on the very first time she played.

This week’s top stories include an Aussie lottery winner named John Howard, and a woman who set a record for the highest instant ticket prize in her state. 

Vasiliy Sholokhov bought ten tickets for the Feb 28 Powerball draw hoping to share the $80 million jackpot with his 2 sons.  He did not succeed. 

John Stresing has been playing the Cash4Life game for sometime.  So when he bought a ticket using the same number combination containing family members’ birthdays and the number 4, it was not unusual. 

They say you reap what you sow.  That saying was proven again in the case of a long-time patron of Gordy’s Market in Eau Claire, named Judith Clark.

When the Illinois Lottery decided to set up an instant ticket game for a good cause, they named it the MS Project.  It has nothing to do with a Microsoft application software.

A syndicate called ‘Two Little Ducks’ from GlaxoSmithKline in Dungarvan, Co Waterford were happy to win €2,000 after managing to match 4 numbers on the March 3 draw. 

29-year-old Randall Wheeler Jr. won the top prize in the $10 Million Florida Cash Scratch-Off game.  The Lake City Resident chose to receive a lump sum payment of $7,433,327.30 at lottery headquarters. 

When James Hanlon bought an Atlantic Lottery’s Set For Life instant ticket, he had no idea how much it would mean to his finances.  And when he managed to match three ‘set for life’ symbols, he was not even sure how much money that meant – until the clerk told him.