Thunderball Hits Wales

A Thunderball jackpot of £250,000 has been won by a grandmother in Gwent, South Wales. Eileen Jones, who is 68 years old and has eight grandchildren, matched all five main numbers (2, 7, 11, 30 and 33) and the Thunderball (8) on Saturday 3 May.

8th May 2008

Double Rollover Landed

The double rollover was landed when a single lottery ticket matched all six main numbers in the UK National Lottery on Wednesday 30 April to scoop the entire jackpot worth £12,464,996.

1st May 2008

Win For Life

A Win For Life lottery player in Virginia has done exactly that, winning the top prize of $1,000 per week for the rest of his life. Rather bizarrely, Gadiel Luciano used the numbers on the rear view mirror of a 1992 Ford Taurus owned by his father as his selections, and they all came up when the draw took place on Saturday 12 April.

24th April 2008

Michigan Mega Millions

Michigan Mega Millions player David Sneath from the city of Livonia has had the wealthiest April of his life after winning the $136 million jackpot on 1 April, 2008. When he told his friends he’d landed the monster jackpot they thought he was playing an April Fools Day prank, but it was no joke.

17th April 2008

Solid Gold

A Solid Gold instant win of £90,000 has given a builder from Kent in the UK a definite spring in his step. Danny Startup, who is just 18 years old, had bought a National Lottery scratchcard only once before, so the five figure instant windfall came on his second ever attempt – and he risked the last £2 in his pocket to buy the ticket.

10th April 2008

Mega Millions Gift

A Mega Millions lottery ticket bought by a father to cheer up his son won a prize of $1 million. Lorenzo Mendez had entered a $50,000 singing competition in the hope of winning, but the Puerto Rico judges disqualified him because he had already recorded a mariachi standards CD. That was when his father decided to try and lift his spirits.

3rd April 2008

Birthday Bonus

A Birthday Bonus lottery scratchcard bought as a birthday gift proved lucky for the recipient who won the top prize of £10,000 every birthday for the next ten years.

27th March 2008

NSW Powerball

A New South Wales Powerball jackpot and divisional prizes totalling $16.1 million has been claimed by a winner from Sydney, Australia. The winner matched five main numbers and the Powerball number on Saturday 15 March thanks to playing every possible Powerball with a Power 45 entry

17th March 2008

Erith Lotto Jackpot

A Lotto jackpot worth £2,964,163 has been won by a couple from Erith in Bexley, despite the fact that the man who bought the winning Lucky Dip ticket very nearly didn’t.

13th March 2008

Bingolotto on Your TV

Bingolotto is a game combining aspects of both a lottery and bingo, and one you can expect to hear quite a lot over the next few months.

4th March 2008

Syndicates Scoop Euromillions
The Euromillions draw of 28 September was one to remember for many reasons. First, the jackpot stood at a whopping £88 million.
17 October, 2007

Syndicate Scoops $61.5 Million
A syndicate of 22 individuals who work or previously worked for a business in Bardstown, Kentucky are celebrating after winning a Powerball jackpot worth $61.5 million. The employees of Nukote International, a company that provides imaging supplies to businesses around the world, each contributed $1 per week to the lottery syndicate, and have done so for nine years.
4th October, 2007

A Winning Prediction
A supermarket general assistant from Bridlington in the UK is celebrating after winning £1,291,036 in the National Lottery draw on 12 September. The UK Lotto game requires players to match six main numbers from 1 to 49, and David Seed managed to achieve this on his wife's thirtieth birthday, giving them cause for a double celebration. The win came just days after a family member dreamed that someone would win the lottery.
1st October, 2007

EuroMillions September Superdraw
Euromillions players in nine countries are bracing themselves for a guaranteed payout this Friday that will be worth around €130million (£88 million for UK readers). Normally, guaranteed payouts only occur when the jackpot fund is rolled over the maximum number of times, but for certain "celebratory" draws (which includes the one taking place on Friday 28 September) the rollover doesn't happen. Instead, if no player matches 5 main numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9, the jackpot fund is "rolled down" to the next level that does have winners.
24th September, 2007

Fantasy 5 Winner
An Australian Tattslotto player who dreamed that he had won almost "$1 million" and reported the premonition to his wife the following morning saw his dream come true when he won $1,035,300 in the next Saturday draw.
20th September, 2007

Lottery Dream Comes True
A man from Lansing, Michigan has won $599,705 by matching all five numbers in a Fantasy 5 lottery draw. Now $599,705 might not sound like one of the biggest prizes in the lottery world, but when you consider that Fantasy 5 is a game that is played seven days a week and has a jackpot that starts at just $100,000, we think that a win of almost six times that amount is a great achievement.
14th September, 2007

California Super Lotto Winner
A single lottery ticket won a massive $93 million in the California SuperLOTTO Plus draw held on Saturday 1 September, making Labor Day something extra special for the lucky owner.
7th September, 2007

Bedtime Stories
Two new stories of lottery success came out of Australia last week - one about a winner who wanted to run out into the street in her pyjamas, and another about a winner who was so convinced she was dreaming that she had to pinch herself.
30 August, 2007