Stealing lottery tickets is not a very wise practice in the first place.

If for no other reason than the lottery company track tickets from door to door, and know exactly which stores has which batches of tickets.

This is a such a big deal for lottery players although most would not have realised it until too late.

We’ve discussed if lottery winners names should be published before and it’s hard to come up with any convincing reason why they should.

Loving this old NY Lotto ad from 1979.

Interviewer (with great hair cut) talks to the 2 big lotto winners about their ‘huge’ wins. Things have changed a lot!

I’m not sure where the right to a share of a relatives lottery winnings comes from, but Alex Robertson Jr seems to think it exists.

His dad, Alex Snr, was one of the Corby bus drivers who won EuroMillions.

It’s always disappointing to see a big prize go unclaimed.

But sadly the claim period for the £1 Million prize from the Millionaire Raffle drawn on 27th July has now expired.

Alun Jones, a young Welshman from Caerphilly, is now £1,135,578 better off for having won the UK Lotto jackpot .

He was swift to quit his desk job, and is all set to buy the Mercedes he’s always fancied and get himself his first home – without the stress of a mortgage to worry about.

Whilst still reeling from the onslaught of public opinion over the UK lottery ticket price rise, Lotto bosses are in trouble again already.

Now 25 managers at Camelot are being criticised for a bonus scheme that pays them fat bonuses for increasing ticket sales, whilst at the same time doubling the price of a UK Lotto ticket.

Set phasers to stun – because Texas lottery have launched a Star Trek branded scratch off ticket.

Now you won’t be winning a trip on the Enterprise or a date with Lt.

Retired Jim Grafrath, 64, plays lottery games most days at the Infield Sports Bar and Grill, but none are usually quite so exciting.

He likes a regular game of Keno.

Jean-Yves Doiron already knows what he’s doing with his $1 Million win on the Atlantic 49 draw.

Well, first of a pretty organised list.

As a keen hunter Jean-Yves is off with the boys on the caribou trail in Quebec.