A Walking Disaster: The Saddest Lottery Icon We've Ever Seen
/This picture of a deflated and disappointed US Powerball mascot visiting an Indianapolis store must be the most dismal icon we've ever seen. Here's what the ideal mascot should look like:
Read MoreWatch How This Clever Lottery Pen Makes Filling In Lotto Tickets Easy
/Fill out your lottery tickets by hand with this specially designed pen. It has a tip that dispenses the right amount of ink, and cap for scratch-off cards. It certainly looks a good idea.
BUY: The Lottery Pen
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William Shatner Advises Californians And Texans To Buy Their Tickets Online
/William Shatner will forever be known as Captain James T. Kirk, but these days he’s more involved with a lottery service than deep space. It’s been a year now since LottoGopher asked Shatner to join and promote their lottery ticket buying company.
Read MoreRICH IS: Eating NY Chef's Specialty - Chicken Wings Covered In GOLD Dust [VIDEO]
/This is what $1,000 buys every jackpot lottery winner - chicken wings cooked by celebrity chef Jonathon Cheban (right) of The Ainsworth in New York City.
The wings are brined in a lemon and bay leaf mix for 12 hours before they are fried and dunked in liquid gold. The wings are coated in 24k gold dust worth $200 each.
Read MoreWhere Would You Spend Your Summer? UK Lottery Asks These Millionaires For Their Top Spot
/In the first of a Meet The Millionaires series, the UK National Lottery asks some of their 3,800 millionaires where they’re headed for their summer vacation. Vegas features in quite a few answers - we wonder why?
When Lottery Balls Attack! Disturbing Photos Of Rogue Lotto Balls Loose In The Wild
/This girl seems safe enough holding her giant lottery ball - even though it contains the 'unlucky' number 13. But the following explicit photos show how some lottery balls can put you in mortal danger if you're not careful...
Read MoreLottery Winner, 63, Had Three Minutes To Fill His Grocery Cart With Free Goods
/Jeff Marsten throws a steak into his cart at the start of the Virginia Lottery’s prize grab. PHOTO: Suzanne Carr Rossi
It’s a novel idea. You have three minutes to fill your grocery cart up to the prize value of $750. But the Virginia Lottery’s Mega Grocery Shopping Dash was a painful time for winner Jeff Marsten of Stafford County. He had injured his back in a car crash on Friday.
Read MoreEmotion Replaces Humor In UK Lottery's New Gut-Wrenching Commercial
/Just released today, this ad is a new way of looking at promoting winning the lottery for Camelot, the organisation which runs the UK National Lottery.
Sam LeCoeur, managing partner at Adam&Eve/DDB which made the 2-minute commercial, says in a statement: “The moment we started working with Camelot, our shared ambition was simple: to build a new emotional relationship with our audience that shows the amazing things that can happen for families, communities and the nation, as a result of simply buying a National Lottery ticket.’’
Watch and see if you agree.
Rare Lottery Share-Out: 40 Winners Claim Jackpot Prize For First Time Since 1987
/The first draw shown here in New Zealand was made in 1987.
Last night the largest number of players ever to win a First Division jackpot prize in New Zealand were probably wiping away their tears of disappointment.
Read MoreRICH IS: Being The First Billionaire Tourist To Orbit The Moon In A SpaceX Rocket
/The 14th richest man is Japan has just won the lottery for space travel.
Read MoreThis Math Whizz Played Over 7 Million Tickets In A Single Lottery Game. The Result Left Everyone Speechless
/This could be the most extraordinary lottery story ever told. Stefan Mandel, a Romanian math expert, spent years finding a way to win a large lottery jackpot. Then suddenly in Melbourne, Australia, he chanced on the exact conditions for his formula and sprang into action. What happened next was the stuff of dreams. Watch to see exactly how he did it, and the result of his enormous bet. It'll simply leave you in astonishment at his audacity and huge ambition.
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Better Than A Lottery Win: Man Saves Pennies For 45 Years And Is Astounded At The Total
/The Louisiana man started collecting pennies when he was 28-years-old after finding one on the ground. And 45 years later Otha Anders (right), now 73, took a moving dolly and deposited the fifteen 5-gallon plastic jugs with half a million pennies into the Ruston Origin Bank, in Ruston, La. After five hours of counting, the bank had a total. The amount - larger than many lottery wins - will shock you…
READ MORE: USA Today
Denver Man Celebrates The Almost Impossible: Triple Lottery Wins Totalling $1 Million In Just 18 Months
/Paul 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 More'See You In Court' Says Feuding Aunt To Nephew Over $1.2 Million Lotto Win
/Both names were on the ‘Chase The Ace’ Canadian fundraising lottery game, but Barbara Reddick threatened to take her newhew to court and get back her half of the $1.22 million winnings. The whole saga was seen out on this video. Reddick says, “I'm getting a lawyer tomorrow. Now you can print that."
UPDATE: September 20, 2018: A court proceeding froze half of the winnings until the dispute was dealt with. The family reached an agreement that Tyrone MacInnis, 19, would receive $373,507 – less than half the original amount awarded to him – while his aunt would pocket the bulk of the win, approximately $931,000.
READ MORE: CBC News
Winners Give Advice: 7 Things You Must REALLY Do When You Win The Lottery
/Check your watch too, and take some time to view this video. Forbes Magazine got 7 lottery winner clips together, and they tell you how to handle the massive financial windfall without falling into some common traps.
RICH IS... Driving Your Quad Bike Into The Water Then Turning It Into A Jet Ski [Video]
/This amazing invention by New Zealander Alan Gibbs is a quad bike for lottery winners which converts to a jet ski in seconds - at the press of a button.
Read MoreEllen Grabs Exclusive Interview With More $528 Million USA Powerball Winners... So Why Did They Splash Out On A Mansion Later?
/Lisa and John Robinson said to Ellen DeGeneres they would stay living in their modest home in Munford. They had claimed the third share of the $1.8 Billion Powerball jackpot in 2016. But barely 6 months later they bought a lavish $6.2M lakeside property and are living it up in proper lotto millionaire fashion. Earlier they had talked to Fox13 about moving house. "We’re common people,” John Robinson said. “We’re just like y’all. These big fancy houses are nice, but you gotta clean ‘em.” Yes John.
10 Unbelievable Super Yachts That Only Lottery Winners Can Afford
/A rule of thumb for the average millionaire lottery winner should take note of when buying a super yacht: it will generally cost you 10% of the purchase price to keep it afloat and maintained - each year! Talk about a hole in the ocean in which you throw money. Only the wealthiest can afford some of these glistening sea mansions in this Top 10 list. But think of the benefits of sea air for your health, plus the Mediterranean style meals your galley of chefs will produce for you at any time day or night. A sailing we will go!
The Reality Of Being A Lottery Winner - How Much Has £22.5 Million Winner Got Left?
/“I’ve been quite naughty I suppose,” confessed the lottery winner with a twinkle in his eye on national television. Mark Gardiner shared a £22.59 Million ($US$26M) jackpot win from the UK National Lottery with business partner Paul Maddison. Now, almost 20 years later, he tells Piers Morgan on tv program Good Morning Britain how he coped with the early success.