Big Surprises for Global Lottery Players

Lottery players all over the world have been celebrating recent successes and one couple didn’t even know they’d won.

Change of routine

A player from New Jersey, USA won $1 million in the September 20 Mega Millions draw. The winner has asked to remain anonymous but has explained how a change of routine led to his lottery success.

They found themselves buying Mega Millions tickets from a different gas station but also in a queue. Patience is a virtue and the lottery player decided “let me wait.” Eventually tickets were purchased and one of them won $1 million.

The lottery winner says they don’t usually check their tickets right away. On this occasion they did and discovered their fantastic win. Tonight’s Mega Millions draw has a $185 million top prize.

Serial winners

A lottery syndicate from Co Cork in Ireland have received their €500,000 EuroMillions win. The 14-strong syndicate has been playing for 13 years and had a series of recent wins. €8,000 was won in four EuroMillions draws between May and October this year. Then came the big win in the September 20 draw.

The syndicate is led by Seamus Buckley but he didn’t check the results of the draw. Then the next morning he heard about a local winner and amazingly found it was their ticket that had won €500.000.

Mr Buckley hopes a much larger win is on the way and said: “we’ve our eyes on the big EuroMillions Jackpot next,” said the syndicate leader. Tonight’s draw has a €51 million (£42 million) top prize.

Surprising discovery

It’s often surprising what you can find when tidying up. A couple from Albion Park Rail in New South Wales, Australia were tidying a bedside drawer and  found a scratchcard that had won $100,000. A man from Maryland, USA,  temporarily mislaid a $1.05 million winning scratchcard.

The male half of the couple said: “Can you imagine if we completely forgot about it?!”  He added that their lottery win “starts a whole new chapter” in their lives.

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