Lottery Winners’ Stories – True Stories of Recent Lottery Winners

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Lottery Winners' Stories - True Stories of Recent Lottery Winners

Lottery winners' stories tell the tales of recent lottery winners, their methods, and their stories of how they won the lottery. Lottery winner's stories are worth reading.

Lottery Winners Stories - No Decisions

Avoid premature decision making when you win the lottery

From the unfortunate stories of lottery winners, a great tip is to avoid premature decision making, and the inevitable requests from family and friends and strangers. Commit to not making any decisions about what to do with the lottery winnings. This is called the Lottery Winner's "No Decisions Stage".

Take a break from making any financial decisions at all. Make this decision even before getting your hands on the money. It's not a time to buy stocks or buy a new house. From the experiences of recent lottery winners stories, you need time to think things through, sort things out and seek an advice from capable financial advisers.
OK, with that piece of advice out of the way, let's visit some recent lottery winners, and hear their stories.

Lottery Winners Stories - Virginia Mega Millions

Kevin Branch wins the Mega Millions lotto twice in 3 months - True Story

Mr. Branch won the Feb 22, 2008, Mega Millions in Virginia. He jokingly said to the Virginia Lottery officials, "I'll see you next time." Unbelievable, but true, Kevin did win the lottery again, a true lottery winners story! Three months later, with another Mega Millions ticket worth US$ 250,000.

Mr. Branch guessed the first five numbers in the May 20, 2008, Mega Millions lottery in Virginia. The winning numbers were 2-14-26-32-41 and the Mega Ball was 32. Kevin had this great luck, just two days before celebrating his fourth wedding anniversary. He bought the winning ticket at the Hull Street Amoco gas station, at 8211 Hull Street Road in Richmond, Virginia.

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Lottery Winners Story from New Zealand

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Lottery Winners Stories Photos

A variety of photographs around the world of the lucky lottery winners, their stories in photographs.

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Choosing Winning Numbers

Have you ever gotten stuck with choosing your lottery numbers? There aren't many to choose from, but it seems everytime you go to choose the numbers, each one has increasingly more value. Next time your stuck, try a number generator, like this one:

http://lottocalculator.tk/

It will generate an order of numbers for whatever amount of numbers you ask for. Sometimes putting your chances in the hands of technology pays off, and you won't be blaming yourself for choosing a faulty number if you come out unlucky.

Thanksgiving Lottery 2009

3 lucky individuals will be splitting a $11 million prize for the Florida Lottery. They have much to be thankful for!
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The SuperEnalotto

Italy's Jackpot Frenzy

Superenalloto. What the hell would you do with 100,000,000 Euros?Surprisingly enough, Italy's sickest lottery game, the SuperEnalotto is one of the world's biggest jackpots ever. In fact, a record breaking prize of 147,807,299 Euros - about $212,000,000 (USD) - was just won recently, on August 22, 2009 by a very happy single player from Toscany.
For a country that makes only 0.89% of the world's population, I'd say this is pretty impressive.

With such ridiculous jackpots, I guess you probably won't be surprised to see what kind of nation-wide psychosis the SuperEnalotto creates in the big boot on a weekly basis. Seriously - statistics show that a whole THIRD (!) of Italy's population often buys the 1 Euro tickets.

The object is simple: match 6 numbers out of 90. Match all of them and you win the jackpot.
The SuperEnalotto draws take place at 8:00 PM every Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, for the last 12 years. In fact, SuperEnalotto has just recently celebrated it's 12th birthday (December 3).

Is it difficult? You bet.
The SuperEnalotto is considered to be probably the most challenging game in the world to hit the jackpot, so you might want to do some research and perhaps learn how to pick your lottery numbers for the game. By the way, the prizepool is based on about 1/3 of the entire sales, with more than 50% going to the state of Italy.

It's a tricky game to play, but the ginormous jackpot makes it pretty tempting.

Italy going crazy over the SuperEnalloto

"If I won I'd give it to Charity." Ha ha, sure!

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Online Lottery

The nuts and bolts

Online lottery. It's kinda like real life, only you don't have to fly to Europe every time you want to earn some EurosMost people don't know this, but online lottery has been around since the 1990's, with lotto companies realizing the humongous potential of the Internet combinded with characteristics of gaming addiction prevalent more than ever.
Actually, online lottery has actually created new private companies offering all kinds of services, anything from Lottery Consulting (seriously) to allowing you to buy and fill international tickets (more on this later on).

Altogether, you can basically put online lottery games into four categories:

1. National (country specific lottery game)
2. Official (all games in a specific country)
3. Private (mostly free games)
4. International (allow you to play all over the world. An agent buys and fills a ticket for you)

You can buy tickets online, get the latest draw results from almost every lottory game in the world (really really), stalk winners and read their life stories before and after the win (this is actually really awesome) and even play for free in some games (if you have the time and will power to suffer through tons and tons of annoying ads). Oh, and more importantly - thanks to online lottery you can actually buy tickets of lottery games from dozens of different countries, making you sort of an international player.
That acutally even sounds kinda cool.

4 Great Lotteries to Play In

Sometimes you play the same lottery over and over again, but why not try something new? Change it up and play one of these featured lotteries:

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If You Had a Million Dollars

5. "Start a non-profit"
4. "Paying off your sister's mortage"
3. "Give it to someone else to turn it into a bigger profit"
2. "Create a cultural program in Africa"
1. "See how many pairs of shoes I could buy with it"

If I Had a Million Dollars

The Barenaked Ladies

Above is some of our favorite responses to the question "What would you do with a million dollars?"

Here's an appropriate video to go along with it, one that everyone loves.
Barenaked Ladies If I had a Million dollars Live 01/15/07
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How to Win the Lottery

Video tutorial with some good suggestions. Try it!
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A Good Holiday Prank

In the spirit of the Holidays, give your family a big laugh with this prank.

Every family has the one really gullible relative. So, have some fun with it! Buy a lottery ticket for your relative as a gift, maybe a stocking stuffer of sorts. Then, when the results come out, a few days before you give them the gift, print them out and change the number so they match the numbers on the ticket. It will be such a hoot to watch their reaction. You've never seen a look of shock, surprise, and excitment, quite like it! Just make sure you get them a nice gift as well, something that will compensate for being part of the prank!

Lottery Predictions

Give us your lottery prophecy

My prediction

The SuperEnalotto will break the last record of 127 Million Euros set in August 2009

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lena, at 7pm on October 18, 2010 predicts:

we will win enough money in the lottery to buy a home and pay off bills....

yahwehFashions, at 2am on October 13, 2010 predicts:

Nice I like, Praise God 4 Million would be nice to Help the Whole Community But Just A Little will Help A Deserving
and Connect with me at http://www.yahwehfashions.com
and Join in on my Cause At http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13682

Gloria, at 1pm on September 21, 2010 predicts:

I will win millions in the lottery this year and will help family/church/charities, etc.

mnriver, at 9pm on September 4, 2010 predicts:

Three Million for me would be nice

mike, at 11pm on August 27, 2010 predicts:

nothing for me

 
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Scanned Lottery Ticket Technology

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$159 million lottery winner finds God and gives away jackpot

Shaw Mcbride - $159 million lottery winner finds God.
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Lotto Winner Is $168M Happier - New York Post

Lotto Winner Is $168M Happier - New York Post
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$13 Million Lotto Winner Shares Journey To Jackpot

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Lottery pranks

Pranks are always awesome, especially if they're about winning tons of cash. We personally can't think of anything more disappointing than to find out you haven't really won the jackpot - shortly after you've been convinced you have.
Here are my favorite YouTube pranks.
Enjoy :)

The Winning Ticket - Lottery Prank
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Grocery Shop Cashier Wins Jackpot

Has no problems counting money

The lucky winner of half of the $41 million jackpot in Canada's 6/49 Lottery drawn on Saturday has no difficulty keeping track of her prize money. She had a lot of practice counting bills as a grocery cashier.

However, unlike the recent winners of Britain's lottery who quit their jobs upon learning of their windfall, the 49-year-old woman will keep her job. She is not a frequent bettor, and doesn't know yet what she would do with her money.
Go figure.

(Via http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018186855#ixzz0jD2jMmHB)

Two $1 million Lottery winners plan use cash only for trips - and keep working

Debra Noyes of Fulton and Susan Kot of Kirkville were presented their lottery winnings March 24, 2010 at the Dandy Mini-Mart on Minoa-Bridgeport Road, where Kot bought the winning ticket. Both women won $1 million in scratch-off tickets.

"I was crying and shaking, and I went home and gave it to my husband," said Kot.

Both winners will be paid as a 20-year annuity. The two will receive their prizes as $50,000 a year through 2029. Their annual check will be $33,015 each.

Dandy store clerk Crystal Kimpel said she validated the ticket for Kot, and manager Deb Hannon said they're thrilled regular customers won the prize. "We are so excited,'' she said.

(via http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/two_1_million_lottery_winners.html)

What would you do with $164 Million?

This guy sure knows what he would do

Lottery Winner
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Couple had no idea they had winning lottery ticket

An israeli couple had no idea they had been holding the winning ticket for the Israeli lottery jackpot, worth of 74 million NIS (about USD $20 Million), Israel's largest jackpot ever. As it turns out, the couple has been holding the ticket for four months without knowing they had won.

The couple appeared at a news conference wearing masks to protect their identities, and told reporters the winning ticket had been lying at the bottom of a pile of papers and old lottery forms at their home.

When they noticed the ticket and double checked the numbers, they were amazed to discover it was a winner.
The $20 million prize is subject to a 25 percent tax in Israel, the lottery agency said.

(via http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000552712&fid=942)

Bus driver wins $3.3 milllion lotto day after divorce

British bus driver Kevin Halstead won more than $3.3 million (£2 million) on the lottery a day after his divorce came through.
The 50 year old fresh divorce went out for a drink with friends after his decree absolute arrived in the mail, when he bought the winning ticket.

The amazing timing of the win means he and his new partner will be able to keep the lot.

Lotto Winner Jailed for Claiming £20,000 of Tax Benefits

Lotto Winner Jaild for Tax Fraudulence

David Smith (51) has been jailed for fraud after claming benefits worth £20,000.
He admitted he did not disclose a hidden bank account.

A check by the UK tax council revealed the hidden bank account - into which he paid £164,633 in lottery winnings (back in March 2005).

Smith was sentenced to two months in prison.

Tameside Council's first deputy councilor, added: "People who make fraudulent benefit claims are not just cheating the system - they are cheating the whole community."

Alberta's $20.6-million Lottery Winner

Alberta's $20.6-million Lottery Winner
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$200,000 Powerball Winner - Vandean Isler

$200,000 Powerball Winner - Vandean Isler
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Lottery Games in the United States

American Lottery Games
2by2
Cashola
Change Game
Daily Millions
DC Daily 6
Fantasy 5
Florida Lotto
Freeplay Replay
Gopher 5
Hot Lotto
Jersey Cash 5
Lot-O-Bucks (Rhode Island)
Lotto South
Lotto*America
Lucky 7 (New Jersey)
Lucky Day (Iowa Lottery)
Mega Millions
Mega number
MegaMatch 6
Midwest Millions
MyDaY
Nevada Numbers
New Jersey Pick 6
Northstar Cash
PowerPlay
Powerball
Quinto
Tri-State Lottery
Weekly Grand
Win For Life

American Lottery Game Shows

$100,000 Fortune Hunt
The Big Spin
Bonus Bonanza
Cash Explosion
Fame and Fortune (US)
Flamingo Fortune
Fun & Fortune
Hoosier Millionaire
Illinois Instant Riches
Make Me a Millionaire
Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich
Megabucks Giveaway
NY Wired
Powerball Instant Millionaire
Powerball: The Game Show
  • $100,000 Fortune Hunt
    The Big Spin
    Bonus Bonanza
    Cash Explosion
    Fame and Fortune (US)
    Flamingo Fortune
    Fun & Fortune
    Hoosier Millionaire
    Illinois Instant Riches
    Make Me a Millionaire
    Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich
    Megabucks Giveaway
    NY Wired
    Powerball Instant Millionaire
    Powerball: The Game Show

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Hoosier Lottery's promotional RV destroyed by fire

INDIANAPOLIS (June 4) - The Hoosier Lottery's promotional RV has gone up in flames.

A state worker picked up the recreational vehicle from an Indianapolis repair shop Friday morning and drove it Hoosier Lottery headquarters.

As he was later driving the truck, he smelled smoke. The worker pulled the RV over and fled to safety before it caught fire.

Via: Chicago Tribune

Hoosier Lottery's promotional RV destroyed by fire

INDIANAPOLIS (June 4) - The Hoosier Lottery's promotional RV has gone up in flames.

A state worker picked up the recreational vehicle from an Indianapolis repair shop Friday morning and drove it Hoosier Lottery headquarters.

As he was later driving the truck, he smelled smoke. The worker pulled the RV over and fled to safety before it caught fire.

Via: Chicago Tribune

American Lottery Games

2by2
Cashola
Change Game
Daily Millions
DC Daily 6
Fantasy 5
Florida Lotto
Freeplay Replay
Gopher 5
Hot Lotto
Jersey Cash 5
Lot-O-Bucks (Rhode Island)
Lotto South
Lotto*America
Lucky 7 (New Jersey)
Lucky Day (Iowa Lottery)
Mega Millions
Mega number
MegaMatch 6
Midwest Millions
MyDaY
Nevada Numbers
New Jersey Pick 6
Northstar Cash
PowerPlay
Powerball
Quinto
Tri-State Lottery
Weekly Grand
Win For Life

American Lottery Game Shows

$100,000 Fortune Hunt
The Big Spin
Bonus Bonanza
Cash Explosion
Fame and Fortune (US)
Flamingo Fortune
Fun & Fortune
Hoosier Millionaire
Illinois Instant Riches
Make Me a Millionaire
Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich
Megabucks Giveaway
NY Wired
Powerball Instant Millionaire
Powerball: The Game Show

Stand up act - if I won the lottery...

IF I WON THE LOTTERY RANT - Tommy James Comedy
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New York Sweet Millions "Bunnies" Commercial

New York Lottery Sweet Million "Bunnies"
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EuroMillions Paintball Ad

Euromillions Paintball Ad
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757 ratings | 190,908 views
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Florida Lottery Commercial: $50,000 Money Match

Florida Lottery Commercial: $50,000 Money Match
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Banned Oregon Lottery Commercial

Banned Oregon Lottery Commercial
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649 Lotto Commercial 2009 - Imagine Life

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Man returns to work after winning the lottery

Here's something you don't here every day. A 64-year-old man went back to work just an hour after finding out he and his wife had won $11.8 million on the British National Lottery.

Ivan and Susan Westbury did not realise they had become multimillionaires until Mrs Westbury visited her local Tesco store on Sunday morning.
After having her ticket scanned, she rang her husband, who was at work, and he came to join her at the store.
After finding out they had won the rollover jackpot, self-confessed workaholic Mr Westbury returned within an hour to his lightning protection business which he has run for 19 years.
"I went back to finish off what I was doing," he said.

Winner of $9.25 million winner gives away his winnings

A grief-stricken cab-driver who won $9.25m on Euromillions has given his winning lotto money in honour of his dead wife.

Big-hearted George Sturt dished out his lotto cash to family, friends and charities because "no money in the world" can bring back his wife, who had died a year ago.
"If Maureen was alive we might have gone on a cruise. But I would rather give it to people who need it. I have hardly any left now, I've given it all away."

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Lucky woman has won the Lottery four times in Texas!
Buzz: lucky lottery winner
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Residents Hope For Local Lottery Winner

The town of Dalton is buzzing after a multimillion-dollar lottery ticket was sold.
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Israeli lottery commercial - raving balls 1

Israeli lottery commercial featuring lottery balls that look like the rabbids from the video game "Rayman raving rabbids".
In rented apartment.
Israeli lottery commercial - raving balls 1
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Man wins Fla. Lottery jackpot for 7th time

Orlando man is having an incredible streak streak of lottery luck.

Richard Lustig won a Fantasy 5 ticket worth approximately $100,000. It's the seventh time he's won a lottery grand prize.

Lustig said he had a special method to how he plays the lottery, but would not reveal his secret.
"I can't just give it away. I have it printed out and I have been selling it to people."

MEGA MILLIONS Lotto FAIL - UNCENSORED

MEGA MILLIONS Lotto FAIL - UNCENSORED
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Funniest drunk ever wins lotto

Funniest drunk ever wins lotto
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11 Year Old Kid Won The Lotto!

11 Year Old Kid Won The Lotto!
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New lottery game celebrates Kansas' 150th birthday

The state unveiled a new lottery game Friday to get a jump on celebrating its 150th birthday.

The top prize for the newborn llotto game is a mere $1,500, but state officials hope it reaps big benefits for the Kansas Sesquicentennial by generating public awareness that events are coming, tied to next year's Jan. 29 anniversary.

The lottery began distributing 600,000 tickets Wednesday and expects 1,600 retailers to begin selling for $1 each within two weeks. Lottery officials plan to follow up with a second game featuring a $2 ticket in January.

Kansas was admitted to the union on Jan. 29, 1861, becoming a new free state less than three months ahead of the Civil War.

But Kansas became a state under a constitution that said lotteries and the sale of lottery tickets were "forever prohibited."
"Forever" ran out in 1986, when Kansas voters approved an amendment authorizing a state-owned lottery. The amendment created an exception to the lottery ban and didn't actually remove the original language from the constitution.

Lottery Director Ed Van Petten said the juxtaposition suggests the progress Kansas and other states have made in keeping legalized gambling free of taint.

Lt. Gov. Troy Findley, who participated in Friday's news conference, said the founders knew times would change and made provisons for amending the constitution.

$61.5 million Powerball Jackpot Claimed

Finally, a lucky Powerball lottery ticket worth $61.5 million was purchased at a gas station in Bradenton, Florida. The couple was not aware of the jackpot size at first, but a few hours later, one of the family members completed the puzzle for them. A one-time, lump-sum payment comes down to $34,553,793.03.

Can Batman Win The Lottery?

Apparently, yes. Well, it is perfectly natural for people who have won large sums of money to conceal their identity, but in China the lucky lottery winners tend to be too cautious. It is not uncommon to see a Batman or medieval knight receiving the award. In fact, it's become the proper "street-smart" trend in China.

$200,000 Powerball Ticket Sold in Huntingdon County

type=text$200000 Powerball ticket was sold at Sandy Ridge Market of Huntingdon County for which the vendor will get a $500 bonus. Unfortunately, lottery officials cannot confirm the identity of the Powerball winner until the prize is claimed.

$10m Oz 7 Lotto Prize is finally claimed

The winner of $10 million Lotto prize from Deception Bay did not realize that he has won so much money until he checked his ticket a week later.

He said: "When I bought the ticket I had just done some shopping and put the ticket in the shopping bag with the bread. I don't regularly check my numbers, but last night it got the better of me." Currently, the winner wants to remain anonymous.

$3.22M out of $90M EuroMillions Lotto Jackpot goes to Ex-Wife

Nigel Page, $90 million lottery winner was sued by his ex-wife after winning his EuroMillions lottery jackpot.

type=textThe court ordered Nigel Page to pay his ex-wife a $3.22 million share of his winnings. It looks like Page is going to be the first lottery winning husband in the UK to be successfully sued for a lottery share.

Experts believe this lawsuit is a result of the couple's inability to accomplish a legally-binding "clean break" arrangement at the time of their divorce.

After hitting the jackpot Nigel married his girlfriend Justine Laycock and they moved into a £6.5 million six-bed mansion.

New 53 Millionaires in Western Canada

Merry Christmas!

The year 2010 has brought a total of 53 jackpots or a quarter of a billion dollars from various lotteries, including Lotto 6-49 and Lotto Max. The biggest single winner was Cameron Blair, an unemployed welder from Beaumont, Alta., who won $41.7 million on April 23.

"I think it was a combination of things. Of course, it's always luck, which is such a random thing, but the other thing was the introduction of Lotto Max, which is a game that provides more opportunities to win $1 million and more ... and that game has proved very popular in the West", said Western Canada Lottery representative.

National Lottery Awards

21 finalists were wittled down to 7 winners at the National Lottery Awards last night. The star studded ceremony at the Roundhouse in London was hosted by John Barrowman and guests included Amir Khan, Tess Daly, David Seaman, McFly and Benedict Cumberbatch. The awards celebrate the achievements of projects around the country who have put their Lottery funding to good use.
National Lottery Awards - Winners 2010
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Mega Millions Lottery Winner

Md. Mega Millions Winner Claims His $48.6M
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