Who walks around with almost a million dollars in his pocket for months? A lottery winner who has not bothered to check his tickets!

Eliseo Gutierrez purchased a Mega Millions ticket for the June 16 draw, stuck it in his wallet, and then promptly forgot about it.

For those who haven’t won a lottery jackpot yet, here’s how winners are introduced and how they tell their lottery success story.

Lottery officials introduced the latest lottery millionaire in the person of Richard Heath amid much clapping.

How does one react to news of a big lottery win? With a bit of shock for sure. Watch this to see how one HGV driver learned of his good fortune

When Jim Forbes asked the lotto outlet clerk to check his Euromillions ticket, he was advised to call Camelot.

The big changes start with the draw this Tuesday (Oct 31 2017).

Here are the Mega Millions changes:-

• Ticket price increases from $1 to $2 per play
• Starting jackpots will increase from $15 million to $40 million
• Main balls will now be 1 to 70 (instead of 1 to 75)
• Mega Balls will now be 1 to 25 (intead of 1 to 15)
• Jackpot odds will now be tougher at 302 million to 1 (instead of 258 million to 1)
• Odds of a Match 5 prize ($1 Million) will be better at 12 million to 1 (instead of 18 million to 1)

Are The Changes Good?

This lucky man almost threw away a $24.1 million lottery jackpot because he doesn’t check his tickets regularly. His habit of watching the news on TV saved him.

A railroad worker struck lucky on Friday the thirteenth by winning £1 million in the Euromillions lottery. The next day he just had a haircut and went back to work.

Many people consider Friday the 13th an unlucky date. But 14 residents of the same street in Garson will surely disagree. They bought a very lucky Lotto Max ticket on Friday the 13th, and when it was drawn later that day they became $10 million richer.

A New Jersey man almost missed out on a huge lottery win just because he can’t be bothered to check his tickets promptly.

Jimmie Smith, of East Orange, has been buying tickets ever since the 1960’s.

When lottery games are hit with technical glitches, it can be costly for the operator. Such is the case with the Arizona lottery these days as it has been hit with the problem of duplicate winning numbers from supposedly random number generators.

Having lottery draws televised improves transparency. But then any glitches become immediately apparent and sometimes cause controversy.

This was the case in Saturday night’s Ireland’s Lotto Plus 1 draw where the top prize was £4.5 million.