Susan Corley often plays the regular lottery, but only makes a bet on the Euromillions whenever there is special draw on.   So, upon learning of the Euromillions draw, she bought a ticket without expecting to win.

There are a number of ways people try to predict winning lottery numbers.  Many people, and more websites swear by ‘systems’ they guarantee to make people hit the jackpot, but are any of them helpful?

Terry Barnett had always believed his number combination would hit the jackpot someday.   To that end he has been betting on his 07-10-14-22-32-41 combination for the last ten years, even though his wife never shared his faith in the numbers. 

Will Critzer was having a good day of fishing when he decided to scratch a lottery ticket he had bought earlier.  His morning brightened even more when he found he had won $4 million.

Just a few months from a record powerball jackpot, the prize money is again accumulating and has reached the $400 million level yet again.  This is expected to result in frenzied betting by people dreaming of striking it rich.

John Nieblas received a huge return on a dollar investment when his  California Lucky for Life Scratchers ticket won a jackpot worth $650,000.  The retired mechanic from Fresno now plans to open his own auto repair workshop.

In yet another story about lottery errors, the show that airs the results for the Louisiana Lottery Corporation erred in the posting of winning numbers.  The state lottery informed all bettors that the correct winning combination for the July 24 draw of the Easy Five Lottery Game was 4-7-31-35-36. 

Karen and Edward James of Sparta won a $10.5 million jackpot of the Pick 6 lottery game, which had accumulated over the course of 31 draws without a jackpot winner. 

Ngawang Nardechen is not convinced that money spent for lottery tickets is money well spent.  In fact he has often told his father to imagine how much money he would have, if he had saved money instead of using it to make lottery bets.