The man reached into his pocket to grab his million dollar ticket. Staff at the Oklahoma state lottery looked on expectantly as he patted his pockets frantically. His wife looked mortified as they both realized he had lost his winning ticket - and the million dollar check he had come to collect.
Read MoreMartyn and Kay Tott lost their ticket and their fortune. PHOTO: Daily Mail
It can happen to anyone. The ticket was in your wallet just yesterday, then got thrown out in in the trash.
This happened to a young British couple who missed out on a £3 million (US$4.1M) lottery fortune after losing their ticket. So they took their case to court.
Read MoreEdwina and David Nylan would be leading a different life now if they had bought their UK National Lottery ticket at a store. Instead they lost £35 million because they bought the winning numbers online.
Read MoreDid UK lottery winner Sarah Creighton buy her title after watching puppet Lady Creighton-Ward in the tv Thunderbirds series?
According to the UK National Lottery, here are 10 of the most unusual purchases made by lottery winners:
Read MoreThere are few advantages in having a job. But there's a way out, because a lottery win will be the best thing can happen in your life.
Read MoreThis 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
This funny ad shows the effect rabbits have on lottery wins. Produced for the UK National Lottery by ad agency DDFH&B, it features the Money Multiplier 30 scratch card game. The game range was launched in 2016 with the ‘Multiplying like Rabbits’ campaign starring #legendboy ‘Bunnydict Cumberhutch’.
Everyone has their wishlist for when they win the lottery. So when a Redditer asked "Reddit, what do you daydream about when thinking about winning the lottery?" there was a variety of answers. Here's a few of the interesting ones that readers came up with:
Read MoreBritish lottery players include most of the country's population, but a poll by the UK National Lottery shows which occupations get the most prizes. Is yours here?
Read MoreChris and Sue Bowers were lucky ... they kept their ticket safe and won £3.5 million in the UK National Lottery. The couple in this following story did not.
Read MoreSam Lawton, 19, scooped a ‘Set For Life’ lottery win on his first attempt while sitting in the bath.
Read More'They asked why I was leaving, so I wrote: Won the lottery!' revealed the former Amazon worker Dean Weymes.
Read MoreShe's seen hundreds of millionaires win the UK Lottery. Debbie Bowen beat 48 others in a bid to start the lottery's first draw machine on a live tv show in 1994.
Read MoreI don't want to sound like a dinosaur, but I've been selling the Silver Lotto System for 28 years now. That's longer than when the photo above was taken at the first televised draw of the UK National Lottery.
Read MoreA 38 year-old UK mum has written a guide on what winners should do with their jackpot winnings, and it’s very complete.
Read MoreLottery scratch-off cards and online games that give instant wins will be banned for under-18s in Britain starting 2023.
Read MoreMany of the lottery winners you see in the photos with their big check are happy. But you don't have to win to be positive.
Read MoreReporter Mark Andrews turned into a millionaire lottery winner for a day to see what the experience was like, and he got a real surprise.
Read MoreAn unknown UK winner has claimed the EuroMillions £123 million (US$156M) today. UPDATE MONDAY 24 JUNE: The winner has chosen to remain anonymous.
Read MoreThis player tried writing GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN from rapper 50 Cent's album title in a number pattern on his UK National Lottery tickets.
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