A woman from Tauranga, New Zealand, who admittedly plays the lotto only occasionally, has won a $9.85 million prize from the Lotto Powerball.  The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, bought the winning ticket (a Triple Dip) from Mt Paper Power on a whim.

What is better than winning the lottery?  For Andrew Vaughan, it is winning the lottery twice.

The paramedic was part of a group of 25 emergency staff who shared in the Premium Bonds jackpot, leaving each with a £40,000 share.

After winning a million dollar second prize on the May 4 Powerball draw, Darwin Morales must have a million more reasons to call New York a “magic place.”

In the village of Rawmarsh in South Yorkshire, people are consumed by a rumor that the recent winner of a huge  £81 million jackpot may be one of them. 

Larry Hughes won $302,600 Virginia Lottery’s Daily 4 game, which only pays $5,000 per dollar bet if you correctly guess the four digits drawn in numerical order. 

A 26-year old mum from Wirral has won the first £100,000 prize ever given by the National Lottery’s new Silver and Gold Scratchcards.  Jayne Devereux says she followed a hunch that she needed to buy a lottery ticket on her way to work.

Mindy Crandell may have literally let the chance to win a £385 Powerball jackpot pass; she was on a queue to buy lottery tickets when the a woman (who would later win) move ahead of her spot on the line. 

Richard Desmond, who runs the Health Lottery wants to bid for the license to operate the National Lottery, currently operated by rival Camelot.     This developed as after a failed try to have the Health Lottery’s license revoked, Camelot CEO Dianne Thompson had hinted they may not wish to renew the license they have held for the last 19 years.

Craig A. Dore, Sr., a 60-year old resident of Feeding Hills just won the jackpot in the $20 instant game, “$10,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular.”  The self employed contractor says he has been buying scratch off tickets in twos and threes since they began selling them, but bought just one ticket for the win.

Mindy Crandell, 34, was on a queue to buy lottery tickets, when her ten-year old daughter alerted her that a woman had stepped into the line ahead of them.