Rodney Meadows is a lucky man - lucky twice. His double win was a rare event, but the size of one of the prizes was the reason he got so much publicity from his win in 2017. The first scratch-off gave him $1,000 - no small change. Then within minutes the Modesto, CA man bought again - and struck $10 million. Watch to find out how the story unfolded.
Real-life $20 Million winner Joan Ginther looks to be the subject of an upcoming film on a similar mysterious Texas Lottery winner.
It will soon be a film. Mark Romanek (below right) has been set to direct Septillion to One, a romantic comedy spec script.
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Read MoreEuroMillions winners Gareth and Catherine Bull are NOT sending out emails giving you US$1.96 million.
There’s an an email been doing the rounds recently, where 2012 Euromillions winners Gareth and Catherine Bull say they have too much money.
Read MoreCan you believe it? This casually-dressed local man spent $1,000 a month back in 2008 on scratch-off lottery tickets. He admitted winning $5,200 in his first game and this was the reason he got really interested playing larger amounts. He also said he gets paid for losing. Watch to see how he explains that theory.
Daniel Grinnell with NY Lottery presenter Yolanda Vega at the Fastrac store in Rochester where he won $3 Million.
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Read MorePaul G admits his family laughed at him for using his winning system on the Colorado Lottery, but it has bought the scratch-off player amazing luck three times.
The first prize of $250k was in March 2017, and second of $500k in August 2018. The now-millionaire revealed:
Read MoreSeeing double! The lucky scratch-and-win millionaire celebrates his win at WCLC.
His full name is Melhig Melhig. And like his name, the Winnipeg man has managed to win the lottery twice.
The first win was a $2 million scratch-off prize 5 months ago at a convenience store in Manitoba. At first Melhig was amazed by his good fortune.
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Read MoreMary Woody, shown here with partner Ray,had never ridden a Harley. She won this one with her scratch-off tickets. PHOTO: Gainesville Times
A Georgia great-grandmother has never ridden a motorcycle, but she was still delighted with her prize.
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Staff from the RocketNews24 website spent 5 days scratching the 5,000 tickets.
Here's the idea. Buy 5,000 scratch-off tickets with a potential of $US233,000 in prizes. Get a team to scratch them over the next 5 days. Then buy a house, a Ferrari, and travel the world on the profits.
So a group from the Japanese website RocketNews24 headed by Yoshio visited their local lotto store to start the test, which was an event by itself. They were swarmed by spectators as they purchased the National Lottery of Japan's scratch-off tickets in bulk.
According to the team's calculators, they would expect to at least recoup about 378,000 yen (US$3,500) of the initial 1 million yen (US$9,000) investment. What happened?
Their guess was right. After a grueling scratchathon, they made back 365,200 yen (US$3,400) of their initial cost – a mere 36% return. They had lost US$5,500.
As one of the group, Mike, summed up: "We suppose it’s good to have a glass-half-full kind of attitude at times like this."
SOURCE: RocketNews24
$2M winner Dave Martinez is known as 'Speedy' for how quickly he gets his janitorial work done. PHOTO: Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press
At first he was happy with the $100,000 he scratched off a Merry Millionaire game, then looked closer. It was a much bigger prize than he thought.
Richard Noll and his wife Lisa with the check at the Massachusetts Lottery Braintree headquarters presentation.
When a hungry Massachusetts man wanted to change a $100 bill to buy lunch, he had no idea what was going to happen next.
Ray Hermez holds his winning ticket at the Illinois Lottery headquarters.
A Skokie resident became an instant millionaire when he won an Illinois Lottery 'Fabulous Fortune' lottery yesterday.
Illinios Lottery officials confirmed that Ray Hermez won $1,000,000 when he scratched off the ticket he purchased at the Shell station in Skokie.
Charles Sturtevant, seen here with his wife Sandra, took the lump sum of $650,000.
Faced with unpaid bills, a 50-year-old Haverhill, Massachusetts man was at his wit's end.
Walter Carver will now collect the entire $10,000 prize that he won in 2007. PHOTO: Debbie Egan-Chin
A 69-year-old Vietnam vet from Brooklyn can finally enjoy all his 2007 lottery winnings.
Fitness enthusiast and motorcyclist Clinton Coffey with his new motocross bike. PHOTO: The Mirror/Stian Alexander
Clinton Coffey had gone into a newsagent in Romney Marsh, Kent, on Monday this week for a can of juice.
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