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Dimitrios Hatzisotiriou bought lotto scratcher tickets while waiting for the bank  to open.  Because of that he now has more money in the bank.

It was his 73rd birthday when he decided to play the lottery.  

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All Tammie Pickett wanted from the store were some sweets to give to her daughter who was ill.  But while she was there she was drawn to Monopoly Millionaire scratch cards, so she bought two of them.  

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The El Gordo Lottery in Spain does not give out the largest individual prizes, but still people eagerly await its once a year draw.  This is because it offers the largest total prize on offer – essentially it makes more people happy.  

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Benny Bowles says positive thinking helps him win.  But when he visited a Gastonia Quik Trip store to buy lottery tickets it was not positive thinking which helped him but what he calls “gut feeling.”

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A man from Cranbrook volunteered a couple of hours manning a Christmas Kettle for the Salvation Army at the Canadian Tire outlet.  After his shift, he went to the mall and bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket and promptly forgot about it, but not before jokingly telling the clerk that he may make a donation there. 

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Kevin Jones and  his wife Michelle were in very dire straits early this year.  They had just returned from Spain after losing all they had in a burglary.  

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El Gordo is famous for having the biggest prize fund of all lotteries in the whole world – a total of  2.31 billion euros ($2.4 billion) this year!  

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Wales is preparing to launch its own lottery next year.

The lottery project will be developed by a Cardiff based non-profit making community interest company called Wil Enterprises.  

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Clacton laundryman Iain Cockburn had a habit of buying lottery tickets and getting them checked at the same store.  Over time the tellers would either advise him that he’d won nothing or congratulate him for winning a small amount.  

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