How many people would keep on playing the lottery for 25 years, in the hope of landing the big one?  They may not be legion, but count six workers from a Micromold factory among them; what is better, their persistence finally paid of to the tune of $1 million.

A $10 Mega Cash instant ticket Mary Michaud bought from McLean BP Gas station won $2 million in the lottery.  Apparently Mary regularly buys $40 worth of tickets at the same place every two weeks.

Maria Carrero of Toronto was happy thinking she had won $40,000 from the lottery; she was wrong.  Her Daughter checked the ticket later and informed her she did not win $40,000 after all – she had won $40 million!

How would you react to seeing a horde of aliens coming after you in the middle of a New York street?  One guy discovered how it felt, first hand.

Someone in County Donegal bought a four Euro lottery ticket at Doherty’s Costcutters in Ballybofey on Saturdayand won a whopping 5 million Euros.  As the prize has not been claimed, the identity of the latest lottery winner remains a mystery.

Do you even remember the time when you last played the thumb game with anyone?  Two friends, who appear to be thumb game fanatics, engage in a thumb war in this video.

The national lottery has confirmed it had made an error in the drawing of the Lotto Plus 2 last Saturday.  An error in printing caused an incorrectly underlined number “9” ball to be incorrectly read out as number “6”.

When homeless man Dennis Mahurin won $50,000 from a $1 scratch-off ticket, he almost keeled over in excitement.  Now other homeless people who live in Bloomington, Illinois have reason to celebrate:  Dennis plans to keep living in a tent with them and share some of his winnings.

Officials of the German Lottery notice two of the balls stuck to the machine, 22 minutes after announcing the winning combination.  They had to scramble to announce nullification of the first draw and had to re-draw a new set of winning numbers.

Apparently, Pedro Quezada, who has just won a huge Powerball jackpot, is a good neighbor.  True to his pronouncements earlier that he would find some way to help his neighbors, he has now declared he is paying the rent of all the people living on the same block for a month or two.