Amazing stories of winners who won the Christmas lottery around the world
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Host Timothy Schultz presents this video featuring lottery winners who won during the Christmas period.
Many people have won the Christmas lottery with games including Powerball, Mega Millions, EuroMillions and more.
The Christmas lottery winners in this video include:
In 2021, a man won $500,000 in Canada, winning the Lotto 6/49 jackpot on Christmas Day.
On Christmas eve of the same year, a man from Michigan won $1 million from the Mega Millions game.
In Europe’s EuroMillions, the winner claimed $1 million on Christmas in 2012 - and amazingly, again in 2016.
In 2021, three Powerball winners each matched all 5 white balls, winning $1 million each. They came from California, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
In 2010, a single winner won a $48.8 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas day in the USA.
In 2013, a Powerball jackpot win of $71.5 million was claimed in Kansas City, MO on Christmas day.
In 2002, Jack Whittaker won a record $319 million Powerball jackpot in West Virginia. He took a lump sum payout of $113.4 million and became a lottery celebrity, but faced some personal setbacks and scandals. However, he achieved some positive things with his money.
He founded a foundation that spent $23 million building two churches. They donated food, clothing and scholarships to needy students.
In 2021, a man won $8.9 million from the Oregon Megabucks lottery in yet another Christmas winning streak.
The Spanish Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo, is the largest Christmas lottery in the world.
Known as ‘the fat one,’ it gives away billions each year to millions of people, with an estimated 75% of Spaniards playing the festive game. El Gordo started over 200 years ago.
