If you play lottery scratchcards then you have probably wondered if there is anything you can do to get maximum value for money. Our informal survey of scratchcard winners has identified several scratchcard tips that you might find useful...

It sounds like a hitherto unknown Enid Blyton novel, but Five Share A Jackpot is actually a summary of what happened in the Lotto draw on Saturday 22 August, 2008. After two draws without a top prize winner, five people matched all six main numbers to take an equal share of the £13,582,850 jackpot.

Winning lottery numbers are something that most players think about at some point over the weekend, but surprisingly few people actually have a routine for checking the winning lottery numbers. As a result, many prizes go unclaimed for weeks, and some are never claimed because lottery tickets valid for 180 days expire after that time and all money due goes to Good Causes instead.

A mother of two has landed a UK Lotto jackpot worth £2,561,513 after matching the numbers 4, 26, 28, 32, 44 and 46 on Wednesday 30 July, 2008. Tracey Foster, who is 40 and lives in Essex, is self-employed and has no current plans to stop working.

In overseas lotteries, Quick Picks are randomly generated lines of numbers that are the equivalent of our own Lucky Dip entries. But the Lucky Quick Pick ideas presented in this article are something altogether different.

New lottery terminals are currently being rolled out across the UK following a pilot programme that 98% of lottery retailers reported as being satisfying. The new terminals feature cutting edge technology that will allow media content to be streamed onto digital screens, as well as increasing the speed at which tickets are issued.

White feathers helped a woman from Dewsbury to win a £1,218,618 share of the Lotto jackpot on Saturday 19 July, 2008. The feathers – viewed by some as a good omen – were seen by Susan Crossland around the anniversary of her late father’s death, and she took this to mean that he was sending her a gift.

Police in in the south of Spain have arrested 28 people involved in lottery scams.  The swoop, which took place in Almeria, caught the fraudsters who send out emails telling people they have won the lottery according to the Times.