Lottery Winners

  • LifestyleAOL

    Would you keep working if you won the lottery? Probably

    Millions of people dream of the day they win the lottery, and call their boss so say that they won't be in - ever again - for the rest of their lives. However, in reality, a new study from WinkSlots.com has found that a lottery win

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  • HealthAOL

    Bar tender wins $100,000 from scratchcard left as a tip

    Here's proof that anyone's life can change in an instant. A struggling bartender in Baltimore, USA, who received a scratchcard as a tip recently discovered he had won a $100,000 (£78,000) prize . See also: Lucky winners win the

  • HealthAOL

    Are you too old to win the lottery?

    Winning a lottery jackpot is supposed to change your life: suddenly you can start a business, go travelling, and treat your family as they are starting out in life. That's all very well if you're in the prime of life when you scoop a

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  • LifestyleAOL

    5 ways to pick winning lottery numbers: Do they work? 

    This weekend the National Lottery jackpot is up to £24.7 million, which means the rules change. If someone picks all six numbers, they get the jackpot. However, if nobody gets six numbers, then the jackpot will be split between everyone who gets

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  • HealthAOL

    "It was in my horoscope": why lottery winners think they won

    We all know that lotteries are random - the operators would be in big trouble if they weren't - but we still have a tendency to believe that there's a pattern. Many lottery players are convinced that, for example, certain retailers are

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  • LifestyleAOL

    How did this woman overlook a lottery win for three weeks?

    Jacqui Shannon, a 46-year-old charity manager from Withal in Essex, won £1 million on the National Lottery, but failed to spot it for three weeks - despite the fact that the Lottery had sent her an email telling her she'd won a prize. See

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  • CelebrityAOL

    Will £61 million lottery winner's son get his share?

    The estranged son of Friday's £61 million Euromillions winner Sonia Davies says he doesn't know yet whether he'll be getting a share. Sonia Davies, 53, was yesterday revealed as the jackpot winner, and has said she plans to share

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