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On November 5, a resident of the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles in the lottery, this is the largest win in the entire history of Russia, the Stoloto lottery operator company reported on Sunday.

On November 2, a resident of the American state of North Carolina, Kimberly Morris, won more than a million dollars on one day. The woman was offered to receive the entire amount in the form of payments of 50 thousand dollars over 20 years, or take 600 thousand immediately. Morris chose a lump sum payment and after deducting all taxes, she took home almost 420 thousand.

24 August winning ticket American lottery Powerball with a jackpot of $758.7 million in Massachusetts, the exact location has not been announced.

April 11 family from French city Dijon in Euro lottery Millions, receiving 83.4 million euros with a lottery ticket price of 2.5 euros. The lucky ones' chances of winning such a prize were 1 in 116 million.

On October 15, a resident of Baden-Württemberg Eurojackpot maximum prize of 90 million euros. The Eurojackpot lottery is popular among residents of 17 European countries. To win the jackpot, players need to match five numbers out of 50 and two more additional numbers out of ten.

On August 12, a resident of Estonia won 1.155 million euros during the Eurojackpot international lottery draw. According to the state company Eesti Loto, this win is the largest in the history of lotteries in Estonia.

On July 29, a resident of Hesse, Germany won 84.8 million euros in the Eurojackpot lottery. The lucky winner managed to guess all the winning numbers

On May 8, the winning ticket in the Powerball lottery with a jackpot of $429.6 million in the US state of New Jersey. Odds of winning: 1 in 292.2 million.

March 5, brothers James and Bob Stoklas from the American state of Pennsylvania. However, the winnings were not distributed quite evenly: the lottery ticket brought James 291.4 million, and Bob won $7.

On February 27, a resident of Novosibirsk, a participant in “Gosloto “6 out of 45”, “Gosloto” worth 358 million 358 thousand 466 rubles. He took part in three draws. His lucky bet, which the winner made at one of the lottery kiosks in the city, cost 1800 rubles. The record came in the 1885th edition.

On February 15, UK lottery operator Camelot confirmed that the UK had filed almost £25 million in Europe's largest lottery Euromillions.

On February 12, a group of friends from Dublin won the European EuroMillions lottery in the amount of 132 million euros with a resident of France. The winners received 66 million euros.

On September 19, a winning ticket for the major American lottery Powerball worth $399.4 million was played at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina.

On August 25, media reported that a resident of Switzerland contributed 93.6 million euros to the popular European lottery EuroMillions. This is the biggest win for Switzerland.

On August 8, the organizers of the American Powerball lottery announced that three tickets with lucky numbers were sold in New Jersey and Minnesota for $448 million.

On June 5, the organizers of the Powerball lottery in May. She became 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie from Florida. She bought a lottery ticket at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, where only 13 thousand people live. She had the option of choosing annual payments or a lump sum payment. By choosing the latter, Mackenzie received only $370.8 million instead of the $590.5 million that was her nominal winnings. Mackenzie became the owner of the largest win in US history by one person.

On June 1, in the 585th draw of Gosloto “6 out of 45”, the accumulated super prize, equal to 121 million 835 thousand 582 rubles, was shared by two participants - a resident of Perm Valery (60 million 917 thousand 821 rubles) and a resident of Volgograd Olga (61 million 518 thousand 163 ruble).

On May 28, a UK resident won more than 81 million pounds (almost 95 million euros) in the pan-European EuroMillions lottery. The anonymous winner immediately became 908th on the list of the richest Britons.

On April 26, media reported that a resident of the American state of New Jersey, 44-year-old Pedro Quezada, received a Powerball lottery ticket. After paying all the necessary taxes, Quezada was left with about $152 million.

On April 6, two residents of Belgium shared 26.5 million euros in the European lottery EuroMillions.

On November 29, the organizers of the American Powerball lottery reported that two US residents who bought winning tickets amounted to $580 million.

On November 14, a French resident won one of 169.8 million euros in the pan-European Euro Millions lottery.

On November 6, Australia's biggest jackpot was shared by four winners. The OZ lotto winnings totaled AUD 112 million.

On September 18, in the 477th draw of Gosloto “6 out of 45”, the accumulated super prize for detailed bets, equal to 152 million 723 thousand 884 rubles, was divided among four participants.

On August 11, a UK resident won the pan-European lottery Euromillions, which amounted to £148 million (€190 million).

March 31st one of largest jackpots The $656 million Mega Millions lottery prize was split between three people from Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.

On March 7, 81-year-old resident of the American state of Rhode Island, Louise White, played the popular US $210 million Powerball lottery. The night before the drawing, she put the winning ticket in the Bible and slept with it.

On February 29, a resident of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik in 13.4 million kuna (about 2.3 million dollars) after 30 years of weekly purchases lottery tickets and marked the same numbers in them.

On February 15, local media reported that a resident of the Chinese province of Sichuan won almost $42 million in the lottery. In Chinese lottery center Fuli Caipiao reported that a Chengdu resident won 200 million yuan ($41.3 million) in the Two-Color Ball lottery. administrative center Sichuan Province. The lucky winner of the prize had to pay a tax of 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), and he voluntarily donated another 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) to charity.

January 27 was played lottery winnings at 4.872 million euros. The lucky one guessed a combination of seven numbers and an additional number. Payment for the ticket was made in the city of Maribor.

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A pensioner from the Voronezh region, Natalya Vlasova, became the owner of a record lottery win in the entire history of Russia. Having mistakenly decided that her ticket had not won, she almost threw it away: they had been looking for the winner for more than a week. By pure chance, the woman decided to double-check the numbers and came to the post office for 506 million. And now she started receiving threats. Medialeaks has collected everything that is known about the luckiest Russian woman.

Winning 506 million in the lottery is one of the most discussed stories in the last week. The winner who hit the Russian Lotto jackpot by buying a ticket with 15 matching numbers could not be found for several days, and the “lucky Voronezh resident” even managed to become a meme. In the end, 63-year-old Natalya Vlasova applied for the reward and presented her ticket.

How Natalya Vlasova lived

Natalya Petrovna Vlasova lives in a private house in the village of Panino in the Voronezh region. She is 63 years old, she is married, and she has an adult daughter, Ekaterina, who in turn is raising a schoolgirl daughter. The family also has a dog, Alma. She guards this house where the family lives.

Before her retirement, which took place, as expected, three years ago, Natalya Petrovna worked in an insurance company. Her pension is small, so she had to earn extra money by baking pies. Every few days she brought pies to a local store for sale, which she told Komsomolskaya Pravda Voronezh about.

The Vlasova family lived very modestly, but were in good standing in the village, although they never stood out in particular. All her life, the woman dreamed of going somewhere beautiful to relax, not abroad, but at most - to the Black Sea, and buy a comfortable apartment.

How Natalya Vlasova won half a billion

The pensioner regularly bought Russian Lotto tickets at the local Russian Post office and did not miss the announcement of winnings on TV. A small family legend has already been born on this topic. Vlasova’s daughter Ekaterina told it in the Vesti Voronezh news.

And my daughter told me on Thursday: “Mom, you urgently need to get rich. Tomorrow to get rich!” And the next day we just got rich.

True, the same granddaughter almost left the family without millions. Natalya Petrovna told how it happened.

We bought two tickets, and then my granddaughter said that one won a hundred rubles, and the other did not win. I put it in the sideboard and told my daughter: “Then check it on the Internet.” And he lay there for a week, everyone was already looking for the winner. I then say: “Kat, check, maybe you really won something.” And the husband also says: “Yes, check him.”

Natalya Petrovna admits that at some point she almost threw away the ticket because “my husband doesn’t like it when there’s something extra lying there.” But when the ticket was rechecked, it turned out that all 15 numbers matched.

How they looked for the winner

The fact that the ticket that won 506 million rubles was sold between October 23 and November 3, 2017 at a post office in the Paninsky district was already talked about several days after the announcement of the circulation on November 5 in all major publications and on federal channels.

Russian Post sent out an official search statement to the media. Advertisements were posted in local branches, and reports were made about the record jackpot. But for two weeks no one responded (all this time the lucky lottery ticket was lying in Vlasova’s sideboard). As a result, a man from Voronezh who won half a billion in the lottery almost became a meme.

Maxim Galkin, who performed a concert in Voronezh on November 12, dedicated a reprise to this episode, writes KP Voronezh.

What are you saying, what are the problems in Voronezh? Roads? Salaries? Yeah, the man won 506 million and still hasn’t shown up. The whole country is on edge! Yes, for some regions this is an annual budget! And the psychologist told him: “Don’t take it right away, otherwise they’ll think you’re poor!”

Ivan Urgant spoke about the Voronezh millionaire on Channel One.

He announced that the lottery winner was actively being sought and joked about it in his typical manner.

Let's all be happy for this Voronezh resident. We love to rejoice for our compatriots for whom money fell from the sky, right? Yes? "Yes!" - shouted the people who are now walking with torches to this man’s house to congratulate him.

So far, Natalya Vlasova and her daughter Ekaterina have deleted all pages in in social networks. The very next day, distant relatives began writing to them asking for help, and then they began receiving threats from extortionists.

However, there is still a long way to go before receiving the money. First, within a month, the ticket will be thoroughly checked for authenticity by special experts: this is a mandatory procedure. After the New Year, money will begin to be transferred to a special account, but not all at once, but in parts - and this will also take several months.

13 percent will have to be given to the state: about 65 million will go to the budget of the Voronezh region and part of it will return to the Paninsky district (in general, the amount of winnings exceeds the annual regional budget). Vlasova plans to spend the rest of the money on home renovations, helping her children and grandchildren, and traveling. After that, there will be a lot left over, so she will donate some of the winnings to charity.

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An article about the largest lottery winnings - about jackpots in the USA, Europe and Russia. The winners themselves and the circumstances of their winnings are described.

Information is current as of early 2013. As more significant winnings appear, we will make the necessary changes. In the first part we will talk about world records. The second part is the most big wins to the lottery in Russia. Here we will tell you about the lottery winners Russian lotto, Gosloto, Sprotlotto and other Russian lotteries.

Many examples given below prove that winning a fabulous amount is certainly not easy, but it is quite possible.

First, let's look at the statistics of the largest jackpots in the world. Although the vast majority of winnings came from tickets purchased directly, the number of large winnings from bets made via the Internet is growing. For more details, see the online lottery article.

Most big win in Europe amounted to 185 million euros and took place on July 12, 2011. The winning ticket was purchased in Scotland. Note that this was a Euromillions ticket.

The largest jackpot in Australia on November 6, 2012 was shared by four winners. The winning amount in OZ lotto was AUD 112 million.

On December 31, 2010, luck smiled on four players in the Brazilian Mega-Sena lottery, who won 195 million reais. This is the largest win to date in Latin America.

741 million pesos- that’s exactly how much the largest one amounted to lottery jackpot in Asia. On November 29, 2010, it was drawn in the Philippine Grand Lotto 6/55 lottery.

Biggest winnings in the USA

It is known that the largest jackpots on the planet are played out in the USA. Below we present the largest winnings in the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries and other American lotteries:

A man named Juan Rodriguez, living in the USA. Having immigrated from Colombia, as of 2004 he had not been very successful in achieving the American Dream. Working as a parking lot security guard, he made little money and was on the verge of financial ruin. He bought a lottery ticket with his last dollar, and this ticket brought him one hundred forty-nine million dollars to the Mega Millions lottery.

However, his story of winning the lottery remained without a happy ending. Read more.

And again megamillions. In 2006, a Virginia resident bought a lottery ticket for a challenge obtained from filling up his car. This acquisition made him richer by two hundred thirty million dollars. The gas station where the winning ticket was sold was also awarded.

On January 24, 2008, James Wilson, an eighty-four-year-old retired World War II veteran from Missouri, purchased a Powerball lottery ticket. After an hour he became richer by two hundred fifty-four million dollars. How family man, he gave most money for your children.

Two hundred nine million- this is exactly the jackpot that a Massachusetts resident hit in 2004.

Andrew Jackson Whittaker, a resident of West Virginia, gained fame by winning the largest jackpot at that time in late 2002. And although Jack, as he is also called, was a wealthy man and was engaged in the construction business, he was incredibly surprised by such a gift of fate.

The winnings were almost 315 million. By choosing a lump sum and paying taxes, he ended up with approximately 114 million in cash.
However, in future fate presented him with many unpleasant surprises. Read about this in the article Lucky and Unlucky.

In 2005, in Oregon, members of the same family - Bob and Francis Chaney, their daughter Caroline West and her husband Steve won about three hundred forty million dollars, becoming the owners of the second largest at that time. The couples spent a total of $40 on lottery tickets. Frances Cheney, 68, bought the tickets. After winning, she admitted that she was scared by such an incredible amount. Her husband, on the contrary, was very optimistic about the huge win. Among other things, he planned to buy a yellow Hummer.

On May 9, 200, two US residents were lucky to hit the jackpot in three hundred sixty million dollars to the Big Game lottery (this is the predecessor of mega millions - the renaming occurred in 2002). Since both winners decided to receive the entire winnings, then, minus taxes, each will receive ninety million dollars. In an interview, one of them, Larry Ross, said that he was never particularly interested in lotteries. He got the winning ticket because the hot dog seller didn't have change from a hundred dollars, and Larry had to take it with lottery tickets.

The following example shows that it is not only single people who are lucky. In Lincoln, Nebraska, eight workers at a local meatpacking plant regularly purchased Powerball tickets. In 2006, luck smiled on them. One of the biggest jackpots - three hundred sixty-five million dollars they got it. In general, playing lotteries together is a fairly common phenomenon in the world. However, there are rules here too. Please read the article lottery tips. Perhaps the information contained in it will seem banal to you, but still it will not be superfluous.

Also, if we talk about cooperative game into the lottery, then one cannot help but recall the so-called lottery syndicates. In short, a syndicate is an association of players that increases the probability of winning for each participant, but the winnings are distributed among all participants. Read more in the article lottery syndicates.

One of the biggest winnings in the mega million lottery - three hundred ninety million dollars was played on the night of March 7, 2007. It must be said that at that time it was the largest jackpot in the world, which caused a huge stir. Long queues lined up in front of sales points and terminals.

As a result, we won two tickets. One of them was purchased at a grocery store in a small town in Georgia by truck driver Ed Nighbors. The second was purchased by Helen and Harold Mesner, a resident of New Jersey.

On November 28, 2012, the third largest lottery prize to date was won - $580 million. We won 2 tickets - one from Missouri and the other from Arizona. Missouri Powerball winners are Mark and Cindy Hill. IN Lately This couple had financial difficulties. Cindy was an office manager but lost her job in 2010. Mark worked in a factory.

The couple has three adult children and a 6-year-old adopted daughter from China.

Third largest jackpot size five hundred ninety million dollars On May 18, 2013, it was drawn in the Powerball lottery. The winner, 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie from Florida, bought her ticket at a supermarket. “The man in front of me in line for tickets let me go ahead. Perhaps that’s why I got lucky,” Mackenzie said.
She found out that she had won their television broadcast, but did not immediately contact the lottery organizers to claim the prize; she first consulted with lawyers. Like many other lucky people, she chose to receive all the amounts at once, and received three hundred and ninety million dollars. On this moment This largest amount received by one person.

Two lucky winners, one from California and one from Georgia, shared the second-largest lottery jackpot in history - six hundred forty-eight million dollars. The MegaMillions lottery draw was held on December 17, 2013.
The lucky winner's name is Steve Tran. He often bought lottery tickets, and finally luck smiled on him. Steve is a truck driver by profession. He bought a ticket containing a winning combination - 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and a bonus number - 7 in the city of San Jose, while there on vacation with his family. It should also be noted that in the USA there is a practice when lottery organizers also reward the distribution point - in this case, the gift shop received a million dollars.

At the first place - record jackpot in the amount of 640 million dollars. Once again, the MegaMillions lottery set a record. This happened in 2012. Won three tickets in three different cities- Red Bud, Baltimore and in one of the cities of the state.

This concludes the stories of winnings in American lotteries and now we’ll talk about our biggest winnings.

The biggest lottery win in Russia

In March 2009, a resident of Kolpino (a suburb of St. Petersburg) Albert Begrakyanwon the Gosloto lottery jackpot 6 out of 45. The winning amount was approximately one hundred million rubles. And today this is the most big jackpot in the entire history of Russian lotteries.

Albert Begrakyan with his wife and children came from Armenia to Russia in 2001. Fate was not always so favorable to him. At first he got a job as a security guard, then he opened a store, and after a while he became the head of a car service center. But Albert always believed in his luck, and therefore periodically purchased lottery tickets.

He used the received amount as follows: he invested 30 million rubles in the construction of his own hotel in Krasnodar region, purchased several apartments in St. Petersburg, as well as cars for myself and relatives. I simply spent some of it on travel and other pleasant things.
Even at the end of 2013, this is the largest jackpot in Russia.

On June 1, 2013, in the 585th draw of Gosloto 6 out of 45, two players guessed all six numbers. The first one made a detailed bet, and won according to a receipt worth 3,780 rubles 61,518,163 rubles. He bought his ticket at a cell phone store. The second is a resident Krasnodar region- also played with an expanded bet. Using a receipt purchased for 1,260 rubles, he managed to win 60,917,821 rubles.

In May 2009, the jackpot amounted to 35 million rubles was won by Muscovite Evgeniy Sidorov. Winning combination 27,8,31,22,4,7.

Fifty-year-old Evgeniy has been playing draw games for many years since Soviet times. numerical lotteries. He invested the winnings in agricultural business.

In 2001, Ufa resident Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova became the owner of almost twenty nine million rubles. She hit the Bingo lottery jackpot. However, this win did not make her happy. Read about her misadventures in the article Lucky Losers.

On April 7, 2013, in the 1232nd draw of Gosloto, 5 out of 36 prizes of eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand rubles was received by the player who purchased the ticket online.

In the 1253rd draw of Gosloto 5 out of 36, which took place on May 8, 2013, a ticket purchased in Moscow won. The winning combination consisted of the following numbers: 5,7,10,17,20. Sum - fourteen million rubles.

JSC Russian Railways, a monopolist in the railway transportation market, also organized its own lottery. To participate you must pay an additional hundred rubles. And then the train ticket will also become a lottery ticket. In the summer of 2012, a prize was drawn - 11.5 million rubles. The winner was a businessman from Stavropol. And the amount he won is the largest in the history of the Russian Railways lottery. The lucky one decided not to reveal his name.

June 2, 2013 for the first time in modern history“Sportloto 6 out of 49” one of the participants in the 23113th draw won a super prize. He guessed all 6 numbers and got 10 million rubles.
Unfortunately, the winners of the Russian Lotto lottery are not presented in this article, since the authors do not have any reliable information about them.

Who hasn’t dreamed of getting a cash trophy without really straining? But someone, as in that joke, asks God to win without bothering to buy lottery ticket, and someone takes risks with the hope of luck and as a result becomes the owner of a large sum.

As a rule, newly-minted rich people prefer to remain anonymous and spend money on sales own desires or to help loved ones (most often for the purchase of cars, apartments, business promotion). Money makes some people happy, while others are upset that they couldn’t make good use of their chance.

How to spend 29 million rubles in 5 years?

Having made a spontaneous bet in the Bingo Show lottery in 2001, Nadezhda and Rustem instantly became millionaires. It seemed that here was a chance to make life better. However, the editors of uznayvsyo.rf sadly report that in 5 years, from 29 million, except for the purchased apartment, there was nothing left. Nadezhda fell ill and died. The tragedy was preceded by long-term alcohol abuse.

The money “catch” was invested in fishing

47 million – for the dreams of loved ones

Instead of moving overseas - debts

He lent an impressive amount - 12 million - to friends, who, however, were in no hurry to return what they had borrowed. As a result, after two years, the money won evaporated, and the debt to the state amounted to 4.5 million rubles. for not paying on time the tax on the winnings remains. According to Albert, if he had another chance, he would spend the money on traveling overseas.

Housing on the Mediterranean

A childhood dream come true

To warmer climes

Months of shock

Build a business in Moscow

He compared the number combination on his ticket with the winning one several times before he was sure that fortune was on his side. A 47-year-old doctor made a lucky bet at a local retail point, cost 1800 rubles. He took part in the lottery for two years in a row. The winner said that the money will be used to buy a house in the capital and develop a business.

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The largest lottery win in Russian history

In any case, money is a temptation, but a very pleasant and desirable one. And, perhaps, we should agree with the opinion of Robert Orben, who believed that the phrase “money can’t buy happiness” is most often uttered by those who have neither happiness nor money. Often, rich people - especially the children of businessmen, who inherited luxury by birthright - believe that everything is allowed to them and that the law is not written. We invite you to read stories about rich young criminals.
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On November 5, a resident of the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles in the lottery, this is the largest win in the entire history of Russia, the Stoloto lottery operator company reported on Sunday.

On November 2, a resident of the American state of North Carolina, Kimberly Morris, won more than a million dollars on one day. The woman was offered to receive the entire amount in the form of payments of 50 thousand dollars over 20 years, or take 600 thousand immediately. Morris chose a lump sum payment and after deducting all taxes, she took home almost 420 thousand.

On August 24, a winning ticket for the American Powerball lottery with a jackpot of $758.7 million in Massachusetts, the exact location was not announced.

On April 11, a family from the French city of Dijon entered the EuroMillions lottery, receiving 83.4 million euros with a lottery ticket price of 2.5 euros. The lucky ones' chances of winning such a prize were 1 in 116 million.

On October 15, a resident of Baden-Württemberg Eurojackpot maximum prize of 90 million euros. The Eurojackpot lottery is popular among residents of 17 European countries. To win the jackpot, players need to match five numbers out of 50 and two additional numbers out of ten.

On August 12, a resident of Estonia won 1.155 million euros during the Eurojackpot international lottery draw. According to the state company Eesti Loto, this win is the largest in the history of lotteries in Estonia.

On July 29, a resident of Hesse, Germany won 84.8 million euros in the Eurojackpot lottery. The lucky winner managed to guess all the winning numbers

On May 8, the winning ticket in the Powerball lottery with a jackpot of $429.6 million in the US state of New Jersey. Odds of winning: 1 in 292.2 million.

March 5, brothers James and Bob Stoklas from the American state of Pennsylvania. However, the winnings were not distributed quite evenly: the lottery ticket brought James 291.4 million, and Bob won $7.

On February 27, a resident of Novosibirsk, a participant in “Gosloto “6 out of 45”, “Gosloto” worth 358 million 358 thousand 466 rubles. He took part in three draws. His lucky bet, which the winner made at one of the lottery kiosks in the city, cost 1800 rubles. The record came in the 1885th edition.

On February 15, UK lottery operator Camelot confirmed that the UK had filed almost £25 million in Europe's largest lottery Euromillions.

On February 12, a group of friends from Dublin won the European EuroMillions lottery in the amount of 132 million euros with a resident of France. The winners received 66 million euros.

On September 19, a winning ticket for the major American lottery Powerball worth $399.4 million was played at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina.

On August 25, media reported that a resident of Switzerland contributed 93.6 million euros to the popular European lottery EuroMillions. This is the biggest win for Switzerland.

On August 8, the organizers of the American lottery Powerball announced that three tickets with lucky numbers were sold in the states of New Jersey and Minnesota, in the amount of $448 million.

On June 5, the organizers of the Powerball lottery in May. She became 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie from Florida. She bought a lottery ticket at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, where only 13 thousand people live. She had the option of choosing annual payments or a lump sum payment. By choosing the latter, Mackenzie received only $370.8 million instead of the $590.5 million that was her nominal winnings. Mackenzie became the owner of the largest win in US history by one person.

On June 1, in the 585th draw of Gosloto “6 out of 45”, the accumulated super prize, equal to 121 million 835 thousand 582 rubles, was shared by two participants - a resident of Perm Valery (60 million 917 thousand 821 rubles) and a resident of Volgograd Olga (61 million 518 thousand 163 ruble).

On May 28, a UK resident won more than 81 million pounds (almost 95 million euros) in the pan-European EuroMillions lottery. The anonymous winner immediately became 908th on the list of the richest Britons.

On April 26, media reported that a resident of the American state of New Jersey, 44-year-old Pedro Quezada, received a Powerball lottery ticket. After paying all the necessary taxes, Quezada was left with about $152 million.

On April 6, two residents of Belgium shared 26.5 million euros in the European lottery EuroMillions.

On November 29, the organizers of the American Powerball lottery reported that two US residents who bought winning tickets amounted to $580 million.

On November 14, a French resident won one of 169.8 million euros in the pan-European Euro Millions lottery.

On November 6, Australia's biggest jackpot was shared by four winners. The OZ lotto winnings totaled AUD 112 million.

On September 18, in the 477th draw of Gosloto “6 out of 45”, the accumulated super prize for detailed bets, equal to 152 million 723 thousand 884 rubles, was divided among four participants.

On August 11, a UK resident won the pan-European lottery Euromillions, which amounted to £148 million (€190 million).

On March 31, one of the largest Mega Millions jackpots was $656 million, shared by three people from Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.

On March 7, 81-year-old resident of the American state of Rhode Island, Louise White, played the popular US $210 million Powerball lottery. The night before the drawing, she put the winning ticket in the Bible and slept with it.

On February 29, a resident of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik lost 13.4 million kuna (about $2.3 million) after buying lottery tickets every week for 30 years and marking the same numbers on them.

On February 15, local media reported that a resident of the Chinese province of Sichuan won almost $42 million in the lottery. The Chinese Fuli Caipiao lottery center reported that a resident of Chengdu, the administrative center of Sichuan Province, won 200 million yuan ($41.3 million) in the Bicolor Ball lottery. The lucky winner of the prize had to pay a tax of 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), and he voluntarily donated another 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) to charity.

On January 27, a lottery prize of 4.872 million euros was drawn. The lucky one guessed a combination of seven numbers and an additional number. Payment for the ticket was made in the city of Maribor.

The material was prepared based on open sources