Beverly Swartzmiller, of Sistersville seldom plays the lottery.  Yet when she went for a pizza and passed by ParMar 10, she took the time to park her car and buy five Powerball tickets with the power play option.

A Euromillions jackpot which had snowballed to £108 million has been won.  Camelot has announced that a man has come forward to claim the prize with now stands as fourth largest in the history of the lottery.

A $400 million Mega Millions jackpot has been won.  This time the big prize is going to be shared by two lucky winners.

Lottery officials have revealed that the first winning ticket was sold at a Sunoco convenience store in Florida, while the other was sold in Charles County, Maryland. 

The lucky number 22 helped a syndicate of four engineers win a £1.5m lottery prize.  Lewis Fox chose  the number 22 because it is his mother’s birthday and her late grandmother’s lucky number. 

Calvin and Zatera Spencer had been regularly playing the lottery.  Each time Calvin buys a ticket at the Barber’s Tire & Auto he would ask the clerk for a big winner. 

These guys have been running syndicates for UK lottery games for many years. Here’s a quick overview of the Big Fat Lotto syndicate and the options available:-

You can read our detailed review of Big Fat Lottos here.

A Nepalese immigrant became the latest embodiment of the oft repeated “American Dream” success story.  Taxi driver Mahendra KC, who had always dreamed of winning the lottery since he came over 10 years ago, won a $1.9 million Mega Millions prize Tuesday night.

Premier Lotteries Ireland, which has recently won the license to operate the Irish National Lottery, has named Greek gaming and lottery supplier INTRALOT as its new technology provider. 

Whether to allow winners to remain anonymous or not has always made for lively conversation among lottery aficionados.

Those who favor anonymity point to security concerns and avoiding the hordes of people asking for dole-outs as primary considerations. 

Here are the different ways the blessings of a lottery jackpot came to visit five lucky people.  You may want to try to:

a) Pull-over to avoid traffic and buy a lottery ticket to pass the time;

b) Use the numbers on a fortune cookie;

c)  Listen to the advice of your girlfriend to go and buy a lottery ticket;

d)  Buy a ticket from a rack corresponding to college uniform numbers; and

e)  Visit a relative in a different state and buy a lottery ticket while you are there.