Lottery Winners

Lotteries create dozens of new big winners every single week around the world. Get the latest winners stories and news here.

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New Fangled iPhone Revealed Lottery Jackpot Win

July 28th, 2011

Chris Bowers, 61, just bought himself a new iPhone – he loves a good gadget.

So like every new iPhone owner, he has spent many happy hours downloading lots of extremely useful apps to while away the time…

Now the lottery app he downloaded didn’t help him pick his numbers, but it did check the Saturday night UK Lotto results for him:

We put the numbers in to check them, and you get little red dots or a green tick.

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Category: News

Family Wins The Lottery – Three Times

July 27th, 2011

They may well be the luckiest family in North Carolina.

The McCauley family have racked up 3 big lottery wins over the years, with daughter Kimberly being the most recent winner just this week.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

I’ve Gotta Kiss Her – It’s Her Name On The Winners Check!

July 26th, 2011

Ernie Stephens, 63, smiled and kissed his wife, Judy, 56, for the cameras at the Missouri Lottery news conference. He joked:

I’ve gotta kiss her. Her name’s on the check.

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€500,000 Lottery Win ‘Just A Top Up’ Say Two Time Winners

July 25th, 2011

To most of us the prospect of winning half a million Euros would seem quite exciting.

But for one very lucky couple, it was just a mere ‘top up’, as they had already won €6.5 Million just 5 years ago.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

I’ve Won $200,000 – Don’t Tell The Wife!

July 22nd, 2011

It’s not uncommon for lottery winners to want their win kept confidential. But it’s no quite so common for the winner to ask that they don’t tell his wife!

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Earthquake Victims Win The Kiwi Lottery

July 21st, 2011

A couple from Christchurch in New Zealand have just won $4,667,251 on the NZ Lotto.

The win has been especially welcome as their home was damaged badly by the earthquake on 22nd February, and they have had to live in temporary accommodation ever since.

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New York Yankees Helped Me Win The Lottery

July 20th, 2011

Carmen and Loretta Demizio just won $41.3 Million on the Canada Lotto 6-49.

And they credit the win in part to the New York Yankees of whom Carmen has long since been a fan.

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Missouri Man Scratches $200,000 A Year For Life

July 19th, 2011

The headlines are ablaze with stories about the vast sum won by the Scottish EuroMillions winners. But smaller prizes can be just as life changing.

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Scottish EuroMillions Winners Richer Than The Beckhams? [pic]

July 18th, 2011

We just wrote a story about the Scottish lottery millionaires get-together. And now it has been revealed that the huge EuroMillions jackpot has been claimed by Colin and Chris Weir… from Ayrshire in Scotland.

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Bel Air Lottery Winner To Buy New Shoes

July 15th, 2011

Joseph Garcia, 29, stopped at a Shell station to fill up his car, and to cash in a couple of scratch off tickets.

And just like the rest of us, it’s hard to resist trading in those small wins for another scratcher, right?

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories