What is the first thing you would buy if you won millions?  For Stephen Jones and his wife Rosie, that would be time.

When they won a $4 million jackpot they immediately resigned from their job doing housekeeping and maintenance for a property manager – they wanted time to enjoy life. 

Three lucky lotto players managed to share a £24.5 million jackpot without having to match all six numbers drawn – and no, they are not playing as a syndicate.

Patrick Emmerich believed that winning the lottery was just a matter of time.  But when he bought an Illinois Lottery $2 million Extravaganza ticket while buying chicken for dinner, he did not know the time had come.

This week a retiree increased his retirement fund by purchasing a lottery ticket which gave him a $25K yearly pension and ‘across the pond’ an Irish pensioner won a million pounds.

Stephen Jones Jr. will tell you that persistence pays.  He was too late to buy Mega Millions ticket so he went back the following day to buy some; he even chose to pay for the multiplier option.

Jim McLoughlin only remembered about a ticket he bought for the Aug. 26 draw after finding it in a coat pocket.  So he had the ticket checked at the SuperValu store and got the surprise of his life. 

When a truck driver came to collect his lottery jackpot, he brought his rig along.  He did not do it because of the size of the prize, but because he dropped off a load of drywall on the way over.

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The story of Matt Myles’ lottery win had made headlines not so much because of the size of the prize, many people have won a million pounds before, but because he was relatively young and adventurous.

Syndicates again posted significant wins this week.  A retirees’ syndicate in Scotland bagged a million pound payout while 51 aged care workers in Australia are set to share a $1.44 million jackpot.