A man from Winchester Bay named David Lane bought a Cash Flurries scratch-off ticket from the Oregon Lottery and proceeded to scratch off 24 snow flurries, then stopped. 

A 27-man syndicate calling themselves ‘Balls of Steel’ have a lot of reasons to celebrate the new year after posting a £1 million lottery win.  Their good fortune came courtesy of the New Year’s Eve UK Millionaire Raffle Draw of the Euromillions Lottery. 

Avid Elvis fan Vera Webber has won a great start to the new year.  She is among the lucky new millionaires from the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle draw.

Egon Hauber who lives in the ‘Sonnenhof’ OAP home in Linz, Upper Austria won a euro 25,000 jackpot on Christmas day, and then promptly disappeared.  Worried carers would learn weeks later of his win, which he had kept secret, and the way he lived it up for a while.

A pair of Irishmen are celebrating the new year in style after winning an €8.1m jackpot from the National Lottery.  The duo had won Saturday’s draw through a €4 quick pick ticket they had bought at Wicklow Shopping Centre in Wicklow town the week before.

In Spain, the 6th of January not only marks the Feast of the Three Kings and the end of the official Christmas season, it is also the day the ‘El Niño’ lottery is drawn. 

National Lottery operators Camelot have announced that yet another winning ticket had lain unclaimed past the 180-day period and has therefore expired.  The prize of £118,609 for the 10 July 2013 draw and the interest it has earned, will now be given to the charities that benefit from the National Lottery. 

A group of workers at the Sahaviriya Steel Industries plant in Redcar have won big yet again in the Euromillions Lottery.  A group composed of 27 workers will share a £1 million prize from the Euromillions UK New Year Millionaires’Draw. 

History was made on the third of January 2014 as a punter managed to win a 1.57 euro jackpot from the Malta Grand Lottery draw.  It was the highest jackpot ever paid in the island for a single winner. 

Canadian Lotto Tracks And Awards Jackpot Despite Lost Ticket

More than a year ago, in November 2012,  Kathryn Jones, a 55-year old engineer from Hamilton, Ontario bought a Lotto Max ticket from a Shoppers Drug Mart in Cambridge, also in Ontario.