A couple from Fresno County have claimed the biggest Fantasy 5 lottery winning ever. The previous record of the game was set nearly 24 years ago when in January 1992, a winner took the $729,505 top prize. Now Thomas Hanna and his wife finally broke the record. The couple didn’t share much about their future plans. As Thomas mentioned cheerfully, “Invest in houses and lots of whiskey!” Apart from that, the couple intends to pay off their mortgage and car loan.

What would be the probability for a statistics professor to win the lottery prize? Nicholas Kapoor, who is one of the lecturers in accelerated statistics at Fairfield University, might have given this brain-teaser at one of his lectures following his unexpected Powerball win. While estimating this might have left the young minds rather perplexed, at least one person in the lecture theatre was certain not only about the formula itself, but also about the real-life results. The reason being is that the Connecticut professor, Nicholas Kapoor has won $100,000 while playing one of the Powerball’s quick-picks!

Having cashed $100 000 lottery winnings last year, you wouldn’t expect to get that lucky again. Quite content with your luck so far, you would probably engage yourself in more practical thoughts and focus on spending your winning in the best way possible. Besides, since none of your friends have won over a tenner in the lottery over their lifetime, you’d probably resort to not wasting your money on buying more lottery tickets altogether. Luck doesn’t strike twice (at least from your lifelong experience), why take your chance? However, from 53-year-old Frank Derfield’s perspective, you can actually get lucky in a lottery more than once. Frank has been playing lottery since 1984. And his second winning was 50 times bigger than his first one! Against all the odds, he has won $5,000,000 in the new California Lottery 100X the Money Scratchers® game.

As 32 year old Jeff Tomlinson engaged in taking his 3-year-old toddler to the nursery to support his wife, Jolene, he was hardly thinking of making a fortune on the job. He was rather enjoying his daily chit-chats with the sweet little one in the mornings and grateful looks from his hard working wife in the evenings before he would head off for his evening classes at Kirkwood Community College, where he was working towards an engineering degree. However, it was due to these daily errands that he eventually made a million. That particular Friday Jeff Tomlinson Jr. became $1 million richer as he claimed his Powerball prize.

Once you have become a millionaire, spending your winning might turn out to be a tough job. This happened to be the case for Jane Wyatt, a mum-of-three from Salford, who won £1 million with EuroMillions, for the August, the 27th draw; when she purchased the lucky ticket bought at last minute because she ‘felt lucky’. However, Jane felt confused with how to spend her winnings. Now, being confused with spending millions is a common thing among new millionaires, but joining the academy at the age of 49, learning how to spend money with care, implies character.

Returning late from work, tired, worn down, a sole breadwinner in the family, Mrs Rubinstein, expected nothing more than to take a breath for a minute and slowly start cooking the family dinner. With her husband following a new career path and no serious job opportunities turning up for a while now, she’d got used to carrying out the same old routine every day without a word of complaint. However, this Friday evening was different- there was a lovingly wrapped present waiting for her on the table. Genuinely taken by surprise, she unwrapped it only to find a smaller box inside. Intrigued even more, she kept unwrapping box after box until she came to the smallest one. Imagine her surprise, when she found a 5 Million lottery ticket inside!

Denice Harvey, 58, from Manteca in California was facing the biggest drama of her life, alongsine her dear husband’s recent death, she was also facing the loss of her family house and their car. She loved having her children and grandchildrend there now and then. Being almost blind, she had lost every hope to ever recover them. Now with her $785,000 winning she plans to buy a little house “You know, nothing fancy. All I care about is having a place for my children and grandchildren to come see me!" she said.