Well, millionaires for 5 minutes at least as the tax office does of course step in and relieve US winners of a significant percentage of their prizes.

Robert Johnson won £5 Million on the UK Lotto back in 2008.

And one of the very nice toys he treated himself to was a Bentley Continental worth £137,000.

Rob Hoover buys his dad some scratch off lottery tickets for Christmas every year.

And this year he treated him to 10 ‘Carolina Black’ tickets.

Dad, Eddie, says he often dreams of winning the lottery – but this time his dream came true when one of the tickets turned out to be a $100,000 winner.

Christmas Day created 25 new millionaires with a UK EuroMillions special draw.

And one of those has been revealed as Andrew Garth, 29, from Middlesbrough.

Andrew was actually hosting his boxing day birthday when he checked his ticket and discovered the fantastic news.

At just 23 years old Sam Polesky is now Montanas youngest ever winner of the Montana Millionaire draw.

He was the lucky ticket holder drawn from 130,000 tickets sold.

Elizabeth Lee just claimed a nice check for $200,000 after scratching her big win with a $10 scratch card called Neon 10’s.

She thought she had only won $200, but was glad she checked closer and was shocked to discover it was $200,000 instead!

This Saturday is a special bonus draw on the New Zealand main Lotto game.

The 2012 holiday promotion has been running for a week or two, but the actual draw takes place this Saturday 5th January 2013.

Is this the meanest Christmas present ever?

Or just a few minutes of light-hearted payback to an older sister..?

She certainly gets VERY excited when she thinks the scratch off ticket from her Christmas stocking is worth $25,000…

It’s a dangerous game to play though folks.

Stealing is bad enough at the best of times, but stealing from the person who was kind enough to give you a lift in their car..?

The final UK Lotto jackpot of 2012 proved lucky for 2 winners, with each claiming a new bank balance of £2,147,58.

But there were also five ‘runners up’ who were happy enough to have managed to hit a Match 5 + Bonus prize of £264,317.