Rolant was happy enough with his first win. He got to appear on TV with a chance to win 5 Million Krona – and was guaranteed at least 100,000 Krona.

Lottery winners Allen and Violet Large struck it rich with a win of $11,255,272 on the Canada Lottery.

But after finding the money more of a headache than a blessing, the couple who are both in their 70’s, gave it all away.

Sandra Swanson, 48, tried to tell her husband she had won £250,000 on a National Lottery scratch card.

But he was engrossed in a game of Nintendo golf with his brother.

The syndicate of 25 people from a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle dealers in Gateshead normally only play the Friday draw.

But this week they decided to use their £16 win from the previous Friday, 29th July, to buy 8 lucky dips in the Tuesday EuroMillions draw.

A man from Christchurch, New Zealand was lucky twice over when he discovered he had washed a lottery ticket in his jeans pocket.

Not only did the ticket survive the full wash cycle, it turned out to be worth $250,000.

Retirement was not looking promising when they met their financial advisor last week.

But now the latest Minnesota Powerball winners, Thomas and Kathleen Morris, have a new appointment with their advisor.

The news is bad enough when redundancies are rumoured, but Ottawa manufacturer Smart Technologies had just announced the plant was closing and jobs would go.

Things took a rapid turn for the better however for a syndicate group of 18 workers from the plant.

Winning the lottery never automatically makes everything in life suddenly go smoothly.

Alissia Rivenburgh, 34, hit the jackpot 5 years ago with a $1 Million dollar lottery win.

A syndicate of 22 workers from the KraftMaid factory in Jefferson, Ashtabula County have now claimed their $99 Million win on Friday’s Mega Millions.

The group appeared at the headquarters of the Ohio Lottery in Youngstown on Monday.

This story seems to resurface every once in a while – but Joan Ginther really is a lottery winner four times over. Although the most recent win was way back in 2010.