There are plenty of truly lucky people this week.  Foremost among these are two men who were reunited with winning tickets they have thrown in the trash, one of them through his own efforts and the other through the help of an honest storekeeper. 

When Nova Scotia truck driver Bruce Osmond finally hit a big lotto jackpot, he instantly knew what to do.  Within 3 hours of winning a $1 million on Lotto 6/49 Osmond had quit his job and decided to sell his rig.

People have attributed lottery wins to luck, blessings, lucky numbers, numbers that appear in their dreams, and even numbers found in fortune cookies.  But for San Francisco winner  Jason Lieu, it was through his wife’s ‘help’ that he won a $750,000 jackpot.

When a store owner calls you up out of the blue and asks you to come over because of an emergency, what would you do?  A lottery player was in for a pleasant surprise when an incredibly honest shopkeeper took the time to reunite him with a ticket worth $2 million.

When Russ Standish could not find his £30,000 winning ticket at home, he realized he must have put it in the trash bin at work.  By the time he got back to the office the binmen had emptied his bins, but left one bin bag behind.

There are inspiring stories of Lady Luck pursuing people she wants to visit with financial blessings.  A retiree has just become a millionaire via the newest feature of the UK lottery, while a therapist won $5000 a month for life. 

Kevin Mulatz and his wife Connie are lottery players who somehow manage to accumulate a lot of tickets before bothering to check the results.  That was the case when Connie and one of their daughters went to a pharmacy to check a bunch of tickets; but this time one turned out to be a big winner.

A Lyndhurst man is really blessed; not only did he buy a winning scratchers ticket, he managed to claim the prize after tossing the winning ticket in the trash.

There are many advantages to playing the lottery through a syndicate, the most obvious being an increase in the chances of winning; there are also supposedly more sets of eyes to check the entries. 

A retired barmaid found lottery luck in a new feature of the lottery.  Mary Galbraith became one of the first to win a million pounds in the new Lotto Millionaire Raffle Draw of 10 October.