Whenever a winning lottery ticket is about to expire, both the media and lottery officials do their best to find the winner. What happens in most cases is that these people completely forget to check the numbers and as a result they have no idea of winning. They fail to claim the prize in time […]

For many people, the dream of winning the EuroMillions Raffle or any other major lottery pretty much involves the plan of not working a single day in their lives. It makes perfect sense to lose any motivation when you have so much money in your bank account, but then again there are exceptions to the […]

When he fled Cuba forty years ago, Antonio Iglesias had high expectations and dreamed of building a better future for himself and his family. It was not easy, to make it this far and he had no intention of squandering the opportunity he was given, so for the next decade he worked hard. Much to […]

Stuart and Tina Bye can say goodbye to their financial struggles (pun intended) after winning £1m in the EuroMillions Raffle and £2.7 in the traditional lottery. They won both the petty amount and the huge jackpot the same day, with their satisfaction growing exponentially as the small prize was discovered first. What is certain is […]

The news that the Mifal Hapayis was about to award a record jackpot galvanized players nationwide and the number of purchase tickets exceeded expectations. Everyone was anxiously waiting to find out whether their ticket will match the winning numbers and lottery officials recently announced that the winner is an IDF soldier. He returned home for […]

Lottery players are familiar with the case of the Ashkar brothers who tried to steal a lottery ticket from a winner, when he presented it to them in the convenience store where he bought it. The incident happened almost seven years ago and prosecutors have been trying to prove their guilt ever since, with the […]

The Illinois lottery makes millionaires on a weekly basis, but what makes Anel Bajtarevic’s case more interesting is the fact that he became the largest instant lottery prize winner in the state’s history. He was officially presented with a check worth $20.8 million and unlike other lottery prizes, this will be awarded to him in […]

When lottery players finally win the jackpot, they are dazed with joy and their plans for the future include generous acts. Some of them stick to the plan and actually do the acts of kindness, others forget about them entirely and suddenly turn selfish. To some extent, it is easy to understand why many lottery […]

A waitress and 19 coworkers from the Ninety Nine restaurant in Queensbury New York, decided to pool money together and create a Powerball syndicate. Each of them spent no more than four dollars and acquired a total of 40 Powerball tickets, with one of them making them $1 million richer after the group matched five […]