If you ask lottery players what keeps them playing, the answer will likely be to get a chance at a life-changing prize.  At least that’s what struggling mum of four Marie Holmes thought when she bought Powerball tickets for a big rollover draw.

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Nursery assistant Claire Markswas on her way to a training when she decided to stop at a shop and bought a £2 Celebration scratch card.  She scratched it off in her car, discovered she had won £250,000 and immediately verified it at the store. 

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21 months ago, Bay Roberts resident Wayne Hiltz was struggling to put food on the table.  He used to live in a leaky home and rode around in a bicycle he assembled from spares. 

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The latest syndicate to post a significant lottery win is composed of 17 mortgage advisers from a Royal Bank of Scotland mortgage office in Greenock.

Their win can be attributed to regularly playing as a syndicate since 2009. 

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Many lottery winners attribute their success to  their commitment to play regularly; and they may be right.  But in the case of Gregory Nikolopoulos, it may be craving for nachos which lead him to a $50 million Lottomax jackpot.

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Lottery players are using significant dates, rabbits’ feet, dreams, fortune cookies and horoscopes to find the lucky combination which will bring them riches.  Odd as it may seem lorry driver Stephen Chick tried playing the numbers on the plates of trucks he was driving behind, and won!

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Many people play the lottery without really expecting to win very much.  A winner from Northern Kentucky proves that again.

Patricia Pearson won $4 from an old lottery ticket, and used that to buy a few Powerball tickets. 

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In one sense Randall Rush is like every other lottery player; he had speculated what he would do if he ever won the lottery, but was overwhelmed when he finally did. 

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Bill and Stella North won a sizable amount from the lottery but an error made them think the win was a lot smaller.

Stella bought National Lottery tickets and asked her son to check the result online on the night of the draw. 

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Sometimes people win lottery jackpots due to a sequence of events that seem to lead them to riches.  That seems to be the case for a lady named Pat Pearson.

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