There are volumes of stories about lottery winners who are so overwhelmed by their good fortune, they forget good sense and lose their money in a short period of time. 

The long wait for the identity of the third winner of the August 7 draw of the Powerball Lottery is over.  Mario Scarnici of Monmouth Junction, has finally come forward to claim the last portion of a $411 million jackpot. 

Sixteen members of a syndicate composed of zoo keepers, office staff and gardeners of the Colwyn Bay zoo just won a jackpot of £1 million.  Actually, they could have celebrated earlier if they had just bothered to check their EuroMillions Millionaire’s Draw entry promptly.

Top stories for last week include a former refugee who found the American dream via a lottery jackpot, a Yonkers man who finally wins a lottery jackpot after thirty years and 31 people who share a million pound jackpot.

66-year old grandmother Anne Ip of Burnaby finds it hard to believe she won a little less than $3.2 million in the lottery.  Now she says she wants to buy a new house and a new car.

David Wright had a feeling he needed to buy scratch-off tickets so he bought two.  His hunch paid off, so he is now $200,000 richer.

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Graham Nield had wanted to ask long-time partner Amanda Vickers to marry him, but always lost his nerve at the last moment.  But after learning he had just won a £6.6 million jackpot, he finally mustered the courage to pop the question, and happily learn that Amanda had been patiently hoping to be asked for the last ten years.

The odds of winning the lottery is so small that a man has to be extremely lucky to win a jackpot, even after having played the lottery for thirty years. 

The West Street Lottery Syndicate composed of Berlino’s Steak House staff and Berwick Rotary Club members have a lot to celebrate.  The thirty one member syndicate have just won £1 million from Euromillions Millionaire Raffle.

A Vietnamese refugee who left his home country as a penniless man in 1979 has won a $3.25 million dollar jackpot from the Lucky For Life scratch-off game of the California Lottery.