There was one winning ticket for Saturday’s $344.6 million Powerball, sold at a North Carolina grocery store. But the winner holding this ticket has yet to make an appearance. They have 180 days to claim their prize.
Read MoreThis video list of giant wins includes $564 Million - Marie Holmes of North Carolina, $587.5 Million shared by Matthew Good and the Hill Family, $590.5 Million - Gloria MacKenzie, $648 million dollars (2013)- Steve Tran and Ira Curry, $656 Million Dollars - three groups of people, $758.7 Million - Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and $1.537 billion and $1.586 billion.
Don't be like these 48 Pennsylvania Powerball winners who shared the $107 million jackpot, only getting $2.2 million each.
Everyone gets excited when a major game like the Mega Millions, Powerball, UK National Lottery or Canada's Lotto Max starts heading into the multi-million territory.
Read MoreThe numbers for the Mega Millions $1 Billion draw have been announced as 15 23 53 65 70 and Mega Ball 7. There were no winners, so the draw has soared to a new record… $1.6 Billion.
Read MoreHoosier Lottery winners Larry and Connie Miller show that big jackpots can come from small state lottery games.
Most people are playing the wrong lottery game and don't know it.
Read MoreWinners Dennis and Mary Graham played the same numbers for 20 years to win £4.5 million. Photo: The Mirror
The Silver Lotto System works by using the same numbers each time. But many other non-System players use their own same numbers too, and win also.
So is that the secret to better play?
Read MoreDavid emailed me: "Ken, I'm suspicious about your prices. They are too low for lotto software that promises a huge win each time. BTW Ive got another 20 years before retirement and I want a winfall to help me through."
Read MoreDennis Banfield, 87, realises his 25-year dream of helping his daughters secure their future 'forever.' His daughter Tina comforts him at the National Lotto prize giving.
Read MoreIt is always a shock when lottery winners find a lost ticket that wins a fortune. The concern is there are so many more players who could be winners - if they kept their tickets in a safe place. But this Fayetteville, Georgia win also opened up a strange coincidence for her family.
Karen Wilkes (center) with husband Charlie and one of their three daughters. Photo: The Citizen
The winner of this Georgia Fantasy 5 Lottery found the ticket when she was cleaning off her bedroom dresser.
Brian and Mary Lohse give advice to lottery winners in this video. Press-Citizen
What would you do if your town of 4,000 residents had to drive half an hour to the nearest grocery store in another town, and you had a $202 million lottery windfall?
Easy - spend $4.5 million and buy your town their own supermarket. That's what two 2012 Iowa Powerball jackpot winners did, and it opens at the end of this month.
It's an old story: you make your own luck. But this was never truer for one woman in Doniphan, Mo., who sold herself the winning Powerball jackpot of $1 million. It was the second bit of good luck she'd had that week.
Maryjane Hart and the winning ticket she sold herself. Photo: Nicki Howard
The 57-year-old divorced convenience store clerk and pharmacy technician won $1 million...
Through his years of work at McDonalds, Chicago man Yancy Hicks had a dream. When his ticket turned up trumps in the 2008 Illinois State Lottery and he won $1 million, Yancy saw his chance. He went from employee to owner, but not at the place you'd expect.
Chicago 51-year-old Yancy Hicks followed his lifelong dream and bought a Subway franchise after his lottery win.
He kept working at McDonalds for a further four months, splurged on a red Corvette for $30,000 cash, but then got down to serious business -
The $400 million Powerball jackpot hits the top spot at a convenience store in the Minneapolis skyway system. Photo: AP
Prepare to be shocked. That $400 million jackpot for today's Powerball - how much do you think you'll get?
Here's how the advertised prize differs dramatically from what you receive...
Did you know that the first EuroMillions draw was made on a ‘black Friday’... one of the unluckiest days of the year for those who are superstitious?
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Newspaper and internet media photos showed a composed, slightly smiling older woman being shepherded from the lottery office.
She looked fairly relaxed for someone who decided to receive her winnings in a lump-sum payment... an astounding $370.8 million before taxes.
The woman behind this week's second largest USA Powerball jackpot did a few things right when claiming her prize.
But a few things wrong too. The 84 year-old Florida woman will have a few problems over her win, and here's one of them:
Jim Carrey goes off to Fiji? No lottery there!
If you live in Fiji (Jim Carrey knows where that is, from his film The Truman Show), then your chances of winning the world's biggest jackpot are very slim.
Stones are useful for many things - as this massage patient is discovering.
I take a daily walk down our private road and out to the suburb around it.
And I take a different way every day, and go at a different time. Takes about 30-40 minutes.
And along the way I start kicking at stones on the road.
So why do I do that?
Enjoy your lottery winnings today, but prepare for the future too!
A big lottery win seems to be unspendable. The vast amount in a jackpot seems limitless, like the big wins over the years... Mega Millions: $640 million, Powerball: $587.5 million, Euromillions: $260 million, SuperEnalotto: $205 million.
You could buy everything you wanted in life and still have hundreds of millions left.
An Iowa Lottery official answers player's questions, and I'm answering yours here.
There's really only one really awkward question I can't answer.
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