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A lottery player in Germany who thought they had won £30million fortune was told they had in fact won half of that as someone in Sweden also picked the same numbers

The stunned punter now plans to pay off her mortgage after she decided to check the ticket, which was bought back in late September, before finding out she had won the life-changing cash prize

The Maryland mum let her son select their Pick 5 lottery numbers and she's glad she did as he used a unique strategy to - looking over his shoulder and coping another players!

Debbie and Richard Nuttall toasted their jackpot last week – but missing from the celebrations was her estranged brother Glen after the pair fell out in a huge row

Data analysis by Jackpot City Casino found that Maine is the luckiest state in the US in terms of average winnings per ticket holders, at a total of $574,900,000 per ticket

Michael Cartlidge and Charlotte Cox bought a winning Lotto scratch card from a Nisa in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and later split - resulting in war over who gets the £1million jackpot

One lucky Brit EuroMillions ticketholder could wake up tomorrow as a multi-millionaire - with enough money to leave to travel the world and never come back - should they win tonight's whopping £62million jackpot

While many dream of winning the lottery, history has shown us that scooping the jackpot isn't all roses and some winners wish they could just return to their old lives

Rachel Kennedy and Liam McCrohan thought they had won the huge £182million jackpot - but the ticket payment hadn't gone through because of insufficient funds

David Greenwood, 32, from Bradford, was left stunned after he bagged a whopping £57,185 on the EuroMillions last month - his fortune comes after his girlfriend agreed to marry him

The Washington man was denied a life-changing jackpot worth $340 million despite his numbers matching the lottery’s website due to a “mistake.”

Joshua Ramsey, from Gastonia, Tennessee, says his dreams have come true after a scratch-off win means that he is now able to afford to buy a house for his family

The Mega Millions lottery ticket purchased at a supermarket in Jacksonville, Florida, expired on Sunday with no one coming forward to collect the massive $36million grand prize

Josh McConkey of Apex, North Carolina said he will use the money to finance his campaign for a seat in the U.S. Congress, so he can help tackle the opioid crisis

The couple were left absolutely devastated when they realised that they'd missed out on the huge sum of money due to the strict rules of the game - and they were given no leeway

Hilde McMillen was told she owed money to the state after being overpaid in unemployment benefits. The 82 year old was initially over the moon when she found out she had scooped the prize

The 68-year-old grandfather Tony Hedley wasted no time in phoning his employer from his lorry cab to tell him he was retired, after his wife told him they won a combined total of £330,000 on the People's Postcode Lottery

Elizabeth Thornton from Kissimmee, Florida won $2,900 (£2,296) but was denied her lottery winnings as she was overpaid in unemployment benefits during the pandemic

Troy Deneau, 56, bought the ticket in a local convenience store on February 1 and was blown away by the size of his win - but has humble plans to stay at work

The lucky middle school employees from Kentucky struck it rich when they won the $1million jackpot (£794,000), scoring them $24,000 (£19,000) each after taxes using their lucky numbers

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Berhane Meharena was on his way home to Virginia from Texas when he checked to see if he had won the lottery to discover he had won $1million (£800,000)

The 18-year-old got lucky on her very first try at the lottery, after her grandfather suggested the medical student give it a go as a bit of fun - she didn't even know what ticket to buy

The Texas man who hit the jackpot, Billie Bob Harrell Jr, took his own life just two years after the monumental win, saying the money ruined his life

A group of 30 educators from Rector A. Jones Middle School, known as the "Jones 30," claimed their $1 million Powerball prize in Kentucky after work, cleverly hiding the winning ticket in a math textbook