A Weekly Grand scratchcard player has won the top prize of £1,000 a week for a whole year, which gives her an extra £52,000 to spend over the next twelve months.

One ticket holder in Spain bagged the entire EuroMillions lottery triple rollover jackpot of €58,278,337 (approximately £46,162,270) on the evening of Friday 27th June.  With Spain winning the final of Euro 2008 against Germany 1-0 and Rafael Nadal flying high at Wimbledon, it is obviously a good time to be Spanish.

What do these people have in common; Sebastian Coe, Steve Redgrave, Kelly Holmes, Jonathan Edwards, Duncan Goodhew, Sally Gunnell? Apart from being Olympic Gold medal winners, they are now gracing the fronts of six new National Lottery Olympic Champions Scratchcards as Britain’s top Olympians.

How to win the lottery is a question that all lottery players ask themselves from time to time, and there are a number of answers. One is to join a syndicate, which will improve your chances. Another is to buy more tickets, which will do the same. But some people believe that winning the lottery is all a matter of attitude.

A builder from Carlisle played a Lucky Dip ticket for the Lotto draw on Saturday 14 June and ended up winning a quarter share of the £12,154,268 jackpot. Anthony Nutbrown, who has four children and six grandchildren, is now £3,038,567 richer, and looking forward to a holiday with his partner Patricia.

Lottery players who choose to buy Lucky Dip tickets instead of selecting their own numbers could have several advantages over their number-choosing counterparts. This article reveals exactly how Lucky Dip buyers can benefit in ways that people who choose their own numbers can’t.

The next generation lottery terminal has been unveiled and we can expect to see them in lottery retailers all over the UK from August 2009. This comes after a pilot scheme resulted in 98% of participating retailers reporting that they were satisfied with the installation process.

Number frequency is a term that refers to how often a particular lottery number has been drawn, usually covering all draws that have taken place since the game was launched. Although keeping track of number frequency isn’t something that affects the odds of any particular set of numbers being picked in the future, it can be something that makes participating in lotteries more engaging.

A chef from Blackpole in Worcestershire has won a lottery jackpot worth over £2.6 million when his Lucky Dip ticket matched all six numbers on Saturday 31 May. The winning numbers were 15, 20, 22, 34, 37 and 39, and collectively they have changed Herbert Plant’s life forever.

Lotto games and dreams have long been associated, but this article is not about the kind of dreams we have when we go to sleep at night. Instead, it’s about the daydreams that lottery games help to fuel, and about why lottery dreams can actually be good for us even if we aren’t lucky enough to win.