Most winners really don’t believe they would ever win the big one.  That appears to be true of lottery players from the land down under as well. 

A  firefighter from Dundee is one of two winners who shared a £3,885,318 jackpot in Saturday night’s UK Lotto draw.  The man who requested to be allowed to remain anonymous has suddenly become £1,942,659 richer after managing to pick all six numbers in the draw.

Retired bus driver Hugh Lundy has always dreamed of traveling the famous route 66 in America in style.  But after years of winning just the occasional tenner here and there, he never really expected the lottery to provide the means to make his dream travel come true. 

The Euromillions Lottery just gifted a 40-year old office manager from Paris with a €15 million jackpot for his birthday.  The Frenchman, who has opted to remain anonymous, won the jackpot on November 29th, which just happened to be his birthday.

Retired iron worker Salvatore Montante of Eltingville can thank his bladder for a substantial windfall.  On a trip home after he visited family, Montante just had to stop by the Bay & Bath Market on Bay Parkway on Brooklyn to find a restroom. 

Many of us dream of winning big lottery prizes we can comfortably retire on.  Sixteen workers from the Toyota Plant in Victoria were told they were on the list of people 2,500 people who will lose their jobs when the plant shuts down in 2016. 

This week’s stories of lottery success include that of a teen mom who won $7 million, an ‘occasional player’ who won $3 million and a man who won a million dollars after babysitting his grandchildren.

Who’d ever think a man can ‘earn’ more on his lunch break than on his regular job?  That is exactly what happened when Rockefeller Center security guard bought a $10 scratch-off ticket at a Midtown Pronto Pizza on his lunch break. 

What does it take for a man to decide to retire early?  For Alan Symons, all it took was for him to discover he had won a £737,000 jackpot from the National Lottery. 

Most of us have read of scam emails telling the recipient of big lottery wins or other prizes for competitions they never entered.  But in a positive twist, a couple from Chicago have legally ‘won’ $300,000 lottery jackpot without buying a lottery ticket; all it took was one good son.