The biggest lotto win to date is £22.5 million and was claimed by work colleagues, Mark Gardiner and Paul Maddison from Hastings, in 1995.
Global lottery odds A £50.4m prize would dwarf the current biggest individual Lotto win of £20.1m, and a Camelot spokeswoman said the repeated rollovers and mounting jackpot total had "generated great excitement in terms of sales".
I've seen miniature cars, townhouses, churches, motorcycle helmets and ballgowns used to thank the saints (and Brazil has many popular saints) for interventions such as good exam results, lotto wins or cancer cures.
In response to news reports of lotto-winning welfare recipients ― including the story of Amanda Clayton, an unemployed Michigan woman who won $1 million from the lottery, but continued receiving food stamps ― the Michigan legislature in 2011 approved a law ordering the state lottery to share information on winners with the state Department of Human Services.
The big spenders who lost it all Michael Carroll The "Lotto lout" won £9.7m on the National Lottery in November 2002, aged 19, but the former dustbin man was on the dole last year after blowing his entire fortune on drugs, prostitutes and gambling.
A monkey at a typewriter / Composes a poem / And a homeless man / Walks into a 7-11 / Plays his mother's birthday / On the Lotto and wins a million".
Frenchman Tony Gallopin, of Lotto-Belisol, won stage 11 of the Tour de France from Besancon to Oyonnax.
Wow! What are the odds of winning the Google International Lotto Award that we won last week and then winning the Microsoft International Lotto Award the very next week?!
One time, they paid hundreds of people to fill out entry forms with every possible permutation of a lotto game, and won $1.6 million.
"White Trash Wins Lotto" is cruel comedy.
