Most lottery winners say that money won't change them, but for once this is actually true, School janitor Tyrone Curry stayed put after winning $3.4 million in the Washington State Lottery, only buying a heat pump for his modest home. What did he do with the rest? Watch - it will make you believe in humanity again.
Want some ideas on how to spend those millions of dollars you got from last night's lottery draw? These winners all did the sensible thing and invested most of it. One winner bought a new Cadillac, and put the rest in the bank. Where's the fun in that! If you want to know whether it was worthwhile, listen to what they say about their good luck. Maybe it'll give you some ideas.
She used her mind to pick the numbers and the amount, and in 2007 it came true. Cynthia Stafford wanted $112 million from the California Mega Millions lottery, and used her birthdate to get the winning $67 million lump sum payout.
Her trick, she revealed, is that she would 'visualize winning' each time she purchased a ticket, picking whatever random numbers first came to mind. It worked, though unfortunately Cynthia lost it all in 2016 after some bad investments. See how some winners pick their lucky tickets in this video.
It all started in the 1960s, when a poor Romanian accountant came up with a solution for winning the lottery. He had spent every minute he had off work and family life analyzing papers on math and working on his own algorithm. Watch and see how it then went quite wrong for him.
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This ad from 2000 still doesn't fail to raise a laugh even today. It stretches the imagination a little, but in a fun way. The Dutch tagline at the end of the short clip reveals: "Know what you're getting into. Lotto, the biggest risk of becoming a millionaire."
Take a look back at some crazy ways four big-spending lottery winners disposed of their money. There's more than one surprise here! VIDEO: USA Today
In this video, Powerball winner Timothy Schultz gives insights about interesting lottery winner stories in 2020. Timothy won the lottery in 1999 before going back to college to study film, journalism and broadcast news. He's now combining his experience with his desire to meet and interview other lottery winners and people who have come into sudden wealth.
American vlogger Furious Pete makes videos on eating challenges. He was filmed in Britain eating what is possibly the world's most expensive burger. At £1,237 only lottery winners and billionaires could afford to buy it. What are the ingredients that make it so special? And what DOES it really taste like? Find out here...
We all know it's illegal to start up a lottery. But if your local church wants to run a raffle then this machine would be perfect for something like that. You can make the lotto ball selector from ordinary things that you can buy locally, and before you know it you'll be the go-to guy for the lottery in your neighborhood.
Katie Lewin won $100,000 playing the Minnesota Millionaire Raffle with the Minnesota Lottery, and it went to some good causes. Watch the video to see how Katie handled her win.
We don't know of any other lottery organisation sponsoring a hot air balloon, but it seems like a great promotion. Who doesn't look up when one of these giant inflatables passes silently overhead?
"Flying just above the treetops you can hear dogs barking and people talking," says pilot Jim Wolters. Watch the actual construction of this balloon, then listen to Jim telling about his lucky escapes in some odd landing places. Who said the lottery wasn't an adventure!
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Watch as chef Mark Greenaway cooks up a Christmas pudding, and find out why he needed to make it for some EuroMillions lottery winners. Mark is an Edinburgh-based chef and restaurateur - chef and owner of Restaurant Mark Greenaway, voted one of the UK’s Top 100 Restaurants in 2014 - and renowned for his desserts. Yum, I can almost smell it from here!
How about a glove that you wear and hold to your ear and mouth in a phone position? Yes, because it IS a phone glove and you can make calls from the speaker and microphone fingers. There's other gadgets that you can discard if you don't like them. But others are fun or useful, so take your pick from this selection in the video.
To the rich and the lottery winner, no price is too high for entertainment and luxury. Diamond encrusted tv sets, fashion items made of solid gold, luxury transportation... the rich want it all - even perfectly clear ice made exclusively by a California based company. Whether it’s for their own enjoyment or simply to show off their wealth, only the rich or well-off lotto winner can afford these. Watch the golf hovercart and be amazed that there is a billionaire born every minute!
It's one of the most remarkable video commercials I've seen. The whole thing takes just 30 seconds to watch, but this feel-good ad for a German lotto group must have taken thousands of times longer to make. When you see the concept, I can guarantee you'll be as open-mouthed as I was. Enough of the amazeballs, just watch it!
You can't help but be drawn in to this tv commercial and the screaming couple. It's an ad for the Australian Gold Lotto super draw, and of course the end surprise is predictable to those who know about the lottery part of it. But fun also!
This tv ad for the UK National Lottery has a Rube Goldberg style chain reaction that is masterfully done. You'll watch it again and again just to see how it's done. AD: Antidote Films
A lot of lottery players are superstitious but this one beats them all for weird coincidences that you just can't make up. Rick Knudsen won $180 Million on a Mega Millions ticket, but what he says happened leading up to the big win is spine tingling. If you ever get a similar set of lucky chances, run down to your lottery store and grab a handful of tickets because it could be you in the interview chair next week.
In July 2014, lottery winner Jack Long promised to give something back from his $60 million California Lottery Powerball jackpot. The retiree had originally bought three Quick Pick® tickets – one Powerball, one Mega Millions® and one SuperLotto Plus®, then went home and didn’t think much more of it until the night of the draw.
After promising to give back to his community, his Fontana Foundation of Hope is continuing to support a variety of local groups.
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