After immigrant cook Eduardo Reyes dreamed he had a lot of money he used $50 to buy two Golden Ticket scratch offs.  The dream came true immediately as scratching revealed a $7 million jackpot.

Among this week’s top lottery stories, an IT man who regularly plays the Powerball and Megamillions has been rewarded with a million dollar win and Clint Dunnet received a million dollar help in battling cystic fibrosis.

The head chef at the Colonnade Diner has just won a $7 million jackpot off the Golden Ticket, a game he frequently plays.  He says he has won smaller amounts in the past which made him keep playing the $25 per ticket game.

To simply say that John Bowman has come into some money is a gross understatement.  The lucky bloke has landed a £10.3 million lottery jackpot.

The 53-year old father of two checked his tickets for the Saturday draw and initially thought he had won £10,000. 

Not all lottery winners immediately leave their work to live a life of leisure.  Some like chef Eduardo Reyes prefer to keep working, but at least the decision is not made because of financial needs

Actually, Reyes’ ticket won he could not take time off from his job to get it verified so he had his brother do it. 

Just when we think we’ve heard all of the “winning secrets” lottery players swear by, another even stranger one comes along.  Narisa Srisamannuwat of Thailand attributes her 6 million baht lottery win to her visit to the “Ai Khai” or the egg temple in Nakorn Sri Thammarat.

As a cystic fibrosis survivor, Clint Dunnet is no stranger to long odds.  Perhaps that is the reason why he regularly takes chances playing the lottery. 

We’ve all heard of people winning twice the jackpot amount because they bought the two tickets with the same number combinations.  A grandma from Kent bought two tickets with the same number combination – but the tickets did not win any prize. 

Just one ticket manages to win a huge £35.1 million National Lottery jackpot, making one still unidentified player very well off indeed.  A Canadian man’s patience is finally rewarded with a $1.6 million win.