When Cynthia P. Stafford won a huge $110 million jackpot playing the California Mega Millions eight years ago things began to change very quickly.  From living on a very tight budget, she suddenly had much more than she actually needs.

A Filipino man won a million dollar consolation prize in a powerball draw; and he was not even interested enough to watch the draw live.

It was only when he checked results later that Teofilo Mesina discovered he had become a millionaire. 

There are very interesting stories of lottery luck this week.  Two women an ocean apart won big sums after a visit to the store; the UK woman won £3m while the one from the US went home $4 million richer.

It took a conversation with a cabbie to convince a Glasgow man to check his lottery tickets.  When he did, the man who did not want to be identified found himself a millionaire.

They say need is the mother of invention; sometimes it spurs innovation too.  The recent huge Powerball draw which featured a $1.5 billion jackpot prompted a lot of lottery result searches. 

People who play the lottery often dream of winning enough money to set them up for the rest of their lives.  There’s good news for lottery players in Maryland; the Maryland Lottery has just introduced a new Cash4Life game.

An eighteen strong lottery syndicate called “The Lucky Eighteen Lottery Club” from Michigan lived up to their name by winning a million dollar Powerball prize.

Club member Diana Rushlow says they bought the winning ticket for the January 13 drawing from the Beacon & Bridge Market in Holly. 

A sudden impulse to buy a lottery scratchcard at the end of her work shift is probably one of the best financial decisions a carer has ever made.