Money can’t buy you love, happiness… or common sense it seems.

Ryan Magee, 28, was driving along in his shiny red Ferrari with his mobile phone glued to his ear.

I’m not sure the UK needs yet another lottery game. But starting this Thursday you can now ‘Plus 5’ your UK Lotto entry.

At the moment the UK Lotto is drawn Wednesday and Saturday.

The green eyed monster can strike over the smallest things. But where a 50 million lottery win is concerned, it can be a whole different story.

Lynda Martinez is one lucky scratcher this week.

She opted for the 20 year annuity payment on her winning lottery scratchcard, and just got her first payment.

Josea and Charlene Person just collected their big win from Tuesday’s Mega Millions. The husband and wife of 8 years represented a lottery syndicate of 13 mail workers from Romulus in Michigan.

Actually, not cracked in any useful way, but it gave this article in Wired magazine an interesting headline!

It’s a very long article, so here’s the short version.

The USA is a funny old place.

Where else could you have the city of sin (Las Vegas) in a State that doesn’t allow the lottery (Nevada)..!

If you’re running our own lottery syndicate, and one of the members leaves, can the group still continue to play their numbers?

This is potentially tricky, but it all comes down to what is in your lottery syndicate agreement.

Remember these lottery winners that were conned out of their big win. The store owner who checked their ticket told them they had lost.

It turns out they won a free ticket.

Patricia Eisel, 40 was a single mum of three kids, working as a waitress in Long Island, New York.

Now she’s a multi-millionaire who will no longer worry about paying the bills 🙂

“This came just in time,” she said at a check-presentation ceremony yesterday.