Guess the strange places that the Missouri Lottery hot air balloon has landed - and their lucky escapes

We don't know of any other lottery organisation sponsoring a hot air balloon, but it seems like a great promotion. Who doesn't look up when one of these giant inflatables passes silently overhead?

"Flying just above the treetops you can hear dogs barking and people talking," says pilot Jim Wolters. Watch the actual construction of this balloon, then listen to Jim telling about his lucky escapes in some odd landing places. Who said the lottery wasn't an adventure!

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How to make a Christmas pudding for your family or even a lottery millionaire

Watch as chef Mark Greenaway cooks up a Christmas pudding, and find out why he needed to make it for some EuroMillions lottery winners. Mark is an Edinburgh-based chef and restaurateur - chef and owner of Restaurant Mark Greenaway, voted one of the UK’s Top 100 Restaurants in 2014 - and renowned for his desserts. Yum, I can almost smell it from here!

10 weird gadgets that lottery winners can easily afford to throw away when they don't work

How about a glove that you wear and hold to your ear and mouth in a phone position? Yes, because it IS a phone glove and you can make calls from the speaker and microphone fingers. There's other gadgets that you can discard if you don't like them. But others are fun or useful, so take your pick from this selection in the video.