The group of 8 players from New York won $1 Million with a ticket they didn’t even buy themselves.

In a promotion, the group had received a single bonus Quick Pick ticket for spending $10 on Powerball tickets.

Fixing a lottery is extremely difficult to do. There are a lot of controls and measures in place to stop exactly that.

As 8 officials from the Mexican lottery discovered, at a cost of $13.7 Million in fines.

It has to be a good day when your lottery ticket hits the jackpot doesn’t it?

Well, it could be a better day for the 98 people who will discover today that they’ve just won one of the worst ever jackpots on the Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 game.

Nancie Zimmerman, 51, has been playing the Florida Lotto for 24 years – with the same numbers.

But she says she knew her numbers would come up one day, but she was still thrilled to be collecting her share of the $17 Million jackpot from 15th August draw.

Winning the lottery would be a life changing event for most of us, but the Beijing license lottery is not quite as life changing as you might hope.

They do say sharing is caring. And what a way to share.

Ron and Susannah Higgsfrom Ontario are one of the Lotto Max winners from last Friday’s $50 Million draw.

Following the successful prosecution of a UK shopkeeper who attempted to steal a ticket worth £1 Million, Camelot has now announced that UK lottery terminals will be upgraded with audible win alert.

Libby and Alisdair McRae from Aberdeen in Scotland pay thanks to Gold Medal winner Mo Farah for their big win!

It was double gold winner Mo who lapped Libby in a charity run earlier this year, and Libby says she has incredibly lucky ever since that day.

John and Carol Reddy didn’t win a headline stealing sum on EuroMillions, but it still put £445,440.80 in their bank account – more than enough to make their wishes come true.

It may not always be possible to choose anonymity when you win the big jackpot.

And it doesn’t always work when you do.

But unless you want to bombarded with begging letters and crazy requests for why you should give your winnings to someone else, it’s worth giving it a try.