When Simon Rustage bought a £10 Mega Rich scratchcard from the Bridge Lane Store in Appleton, Warrington, while travelling back home from a visit to his father, he immediately scratched it. 

So who wins the lottery?  Well some winners play a lot and win after some time, like regular player Ronald Stacye who won $250k, and a syndicate of fifteen people in England who won £1 Million after playing for 12 years. 

In yet another validation of the advantage of playing the lottery as a group, fifteen members of the Penygroes Rugby Club scooped a million pound jackpot. 

A EuroMillions syndicate composed of six construction workers have just won a total of £333,167.40 from the EuroMillions lottery, after one of their tickets matched five numbers and a lucky star.

Some countries and states require lottery winners to reveal their identities to provide evidence of their game’s transparency and fair play.  Other states allow winners to remain anonymous to protect them from friends and family who would like to ask for a portion of the winnings, and from scams.

People have tried many systems for winning the lottery.  Some use ‘lucky’ numbers, others playwith a group to increase their chances, and some just buy a lot of tickets hoping to land the big one. 

Ronald Stacye enjoys running the restaurant at the at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3404, 1136 E. Atlantic St., in Springfield.   But at the end of the day every Wednesday and Saturday, he invests a little money buying Show Me Cash and $250K Triple Play tickets at the restaurant. 

This week a man whose girlfriend wants to have enough to buy a beach house ends up with a million dollars, a NJ woman’s investment in Powerball tickets returns $2 million, and a retired fisherman lands a huge $13.8 million jackpot.

A $14.3 million winning Hot Lotto ticket from the Quiktrip store in Des Moines on Dec. 23, 2010 been claimed by the person who bought it.