Andrew Clark, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire who’s been piling up lottery tickets in his van for ages has found out he’s the winner of $86,000,000 with Euro Millions! Clark called himself the man who nearly lost £76M after explaining the story of how he’d always buy tickets and not check them until his family heard in the local news that there was a local prize unclaimed and began pressuring Clark to check his ticket. This literally went on for weeks before he finally gave in and went through checking his entire stash of tickets one evening, not surprisingly – he'd won a massive prize (the 12th biggest prize won in the UK) and now says he is pleased that his partner and her niece convinced him to check. 

Christmas has definitely come early for Peter DeLuca, 51 from Sterling Heights in Michigan who has won a $1,000,000 prize with the Michigan Lottery. DeLuca purchased the winning ticket from the Kroger store which is located at 43893 Schoenherr Road in Sterling Heights, and explained that he bought lottery tickets every so often when the jackpot would grow very big, and worth taking your chances on. What’s funny is that he actually forgot about the ticket after leaving it in his car for a few days, until he remembered and found it on a Wednesday. Deluca then proceeded to take the ticket to a 7-Eleven where a clerk could check the ticket, but she told him that the prize was so big she couldn’t cash it for him, so she printed the ticket and he was able to check it himself, finding he’d matched all five white balls which were: 11, 14, 32, 43 and 65 for the October 13th drawing. 

A Montana resident was surprised to realise that a $50,000 winning ticket she wanted to throw away was saved by her brother. Virginia Busko-Gewald explained to Montana Lottery officials that she was motivated by her brother's lottery-playing habit to buy lottery tickets at the Great Falls Albertsons. Even though her brother is a regular player, she couldn’t decide what game to play, so she went for the first lottery game the shop clerk suggested: Powerball. Busko-Gewald added that she intends to pay some bills, pay a visit to her nephew in Korea and also to her niece in New York.

A 64-year-old Michigan woman explained she wouldn't have realized her lottery ticket was worth as much as $300,000 if she didn’t enter it in a second chance game. The Otsego County resident told the lottery officials she purchased the Double Bonus Cashword game from the Marathon gas station in Gaylord and she put it in her pile of non-winners when she was scratching it off. The woman explained she wasn’t aware anything was wrong until she attempted to enter her losing tickets for second chance games. "I sat down to enter some of the tickets from my pile, and this one just wouldn't go in," she added.

Harold, and Tina Ehrenberg from Mandeville, Louisiana were preparing to host a Thanksgiving dinner by tidying up their home, when they found a lottery ticket worth $1,800,000 that was forgotten about. Ehrenberg, purchased her lottery ticket from the Louisiana Lottery back in June 6th from International Market which is located at Metairie La. on a casual summer’s day, alongside a few other tickets before storing it away on a nightstand at home. When stumbling upon the ticket recently, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, and even went as far as checking the winning numbers, three times – which were: 3, 7, 30, 31, 35 and 38 to confirm her own reality.

A homeless man, from Michigan who has opted to remain anonymous has come forward to claim a $4.82 million prize with the Michigan Lottery! The man’s story took a bit of an unexpected turn, and things could have easily gone left if he didn’t have his wits about him. He originally purchased his ticket, which was a Lotto 47 game from the B&D Mini Mart which is located at 32 West Munger Road in Munger and explained that he’d been using the same numbers on that game for over 2 years, with the same payslip too – now that’s dedication! But he said that he’d actually thrown his payslip away shortly after in a dumpster, thankfully he remembered and went back, having to climb into the dumpster to retrieve the ticket. 

The winner of the other half of the $687.8 million Powerball jackpot has finally stepped forward to claim his prize. Robert Bailey, 67 from New York has been playing the same 6 numbers for over 25 years, and even now, after winning such a monumental prize he says that he has plans to continue playing too. Now, being the largest lottery winner in the history of New York, Bailey explained how it was he came to be in this situation. He purchased his ticket from a deli located in Harlem, which differs from what he usually does, as he usually visits a number of stores for his tickets, however on this particular day it was raining pretty bad so he popped into the deli to escape the bad weather, and purchased the Powerball ticket on a whim whilst there. Later that night, he checked the winning tickets and thought “These look like my numbers” which were: 8, 12, 13, 19, 27 and Powerball number 4 – the same numbers the woman from Iowa who won the other half of the prize chose.