When Andy Garth won £1 million from the Euromillions Millionaires Raffle draw on Christmas day last year, he never imagined that the Christmas cheer would still be going strong a year later.

Spain’s Christmas El Gordo draw has become known for it’s lavish TV advertising, as well as it’s crazy jackpot prize pool of course.

Here’s the ad for the 2013 draw – can you spot the odd famous face/voice..?

Excitement among lottery players has been seriously building as a consequence of a Mega Millions jackpot that is expected to reach the $400 million level for Friday’s (Dec.

What does a man who wishes to have a bit more Christmas cheer do?   Well for Jamie Grieve of Lowestoft, the answer is, buy a National Lottery Merry Millionaire card. 

A betting syndicate composed of workers at the Eger Lutheran Homes and Services have just won a million dollars.  The workers, whose jobs involve taking care of sick elderly people had pooled their money to buy Powerball tickets, one of which gave a million dollar return on investment.

There is no shortage of incredible stories of luck as a bad case of cold leads a man to his second significant jackpot, and the Ontario Lottery tracks down a woman who won $50 million despite having lost her ticket. 

In another proof that joining betting syndicates greatly increase winning chances, a group of sixteen retirement home employees have just bagged a $1 million prize.  The group, who have been dubbed “sweet sixteen,” are all employees of Edinburgh Hall at Parkland Estates retirement home in Truro.

Darryl Buford was  surprised to find a lot of lottery tickets in a UPS box delivered to him with a gift he had bought earlier from Macy’s. 

There are so many stories about scams, some involving the lottery, that people are understandably suspicious when they receive calls about big sums of  money.  Tammy Schwartz-Stobel received a few such calls from a woman introducing herself as a lottery official, and hung up on the caller thinking it was a scam. 

With thanks to the Oklahoma Lottery for capturing this secret footage of Mr. Powerball during his off-time…

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I’ve already watched this like 6 times, and it still makes me laugh.