Articles
This section covers a diverse range of subjects relating to lottery winners and the game itself. Topics include common pitfalls, mathematical principles behind lottery-play, lottery winner profiles and unusual facts. Our aim is to provide you with plenty of light-hearted articles for your entertainment – after all, playing the lottery is supposed to be fun right? But we also recognise that playing the lottery is a serious pastime for many people. With this in mind, we try to include articles which entertain and inform our readership. Feel free to browse our article section for a taster of the type of content you can expect from Lottery Winners.
The Lottery in North Korea
International pariah, North Korea is one of the most misunderstood nations in the world. Actually, it’s not, we just wanted to get your attention. In fact, NK, as you probably...
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What Happens After You Win the Lottery?
We all dream of being the lucky recipients of a major lottery windfall at some time or another. In fact most of us spend so much time wondering what we’ll...
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10 Lottery Winners Who Lost it All
Money isn’t everything, as the saying goes. And for some lottery winners, this particular adage is especially pertinent. Because for every gaggle of jackpot millionaires,there are always some who just...
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10 Lottery Winners Who Gave it Away – Part 1
Big lottery winners are extremely rare creatures. So rare in fact, that you’d probably have more chance of meeting a three-legged ballerina at your local supermarket. Rarer still are the...
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Lotto Winners: Barbara & Ray Wragg, £7.6m ($9.3m USD)
The Heartwarming Legacy of Lotto Winner Barbara Wragg: A Tale of Philanthropy and Generosity Barbara Wragg's remarkable story is a testament to the power of generosity, capturing hearts and headlines...
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10 Lottery Winners Who Gave it Away – Part 2
The second in our series about generous lottery winners includes a couple who built a water-park, a kindly nurse and an anonymous parishioner who gave every penny to a Long...
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The gambler’s fallacy is phenomenon that affects all of us to varying degrees. The extent of its influence depends on many factors that are far too numerous to go into...
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Gambler’s Fallacy and The Lottery
The gambler’s fallacy describes the erroneous belief that the odds of something with a fixed probability, increases or decreases according to recent occurrences. For instance, a person throwing dice may...
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Lotteries: For and Against
The UK National Lottery has generated well over £100 billion in ticket sales since being introduced in 1994. Its popularity is undoubted with around half the population buying a ticket...
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Biggest Lottery Scams Ever
Wherever there’s big money to be had, you can be sure that somebody somewhere is trying to get their hands on it by dishonest means. So is should come as...
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Happiness of Lottery Winners – Studies in Levity
It’s often assumed that acquiring a massive, life-changing lottery windfall will result in long-lasting happiness and contentment. To determine the accuracy of this popular assumption, numerous studies have been conducted...
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How Not to Pick Lottery Numbers
Picking the right lottery numbers often results in early retirement and/or a new lease of life. Sadly it’s a rather difficult feat, what with the odds of winning the UK...
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Lottery Odds Compared – 8 Helpful Examples
We all know that winning the lottery is something that happens to other people. Well most of us do anyway or at least those capable of rational thought. In fact,...
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Top 10 Biggest Lottery Jackpot Wins
Big-money lottery winners are a growing demographic with thousands dotted all over the globe. And while most big prizes amount to a just couple of million, there are some jackpots...
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Top 10 Luckiest UK Lotto Towns
Since its inception in 1994, the UK national lottery has created more than 4000 millionaires. Although these lucky few hail from locations throughout the United Kingdom, there are certain destinations...
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Voltaire and the French Lottery
Voltaire was one of the most prominent public figures in Enlightenment-era France. He was a versatile, prolific writer penning around 20,000 letters and 2000 books in the fields of history...
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5 Psychological Reasons We Play the Lottery
There have got to be some deep-rooted reasons for our obsession with lotteries. Why else would we play a game that we have almost no prospect of winning? Those of...
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The 14-Time Lottery Winner
Stefan Mandel and the word ‘lucky’ aren’t synonymous. You may think this odd given that he’s a 14-time lottery winner. Not so for Mandel. Instead of relying on lady luck,...
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Investment Tips for Lottery Winners
It’s pretty easy to waste money when you’ve got a lot of it. Ask most lottery winners about the amount of cash they part with following a huge windfall and...
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Lottery Mathematics – Probability, Permutations and Combinatorics
There are countless strategies for picking lottery numbers of which most involve spurious methodology. While some claim to have found a magic formula that guarantees results, the fact is that...
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Top 5 Lottery Myths
Lotteries attract a great deal of attention from the mainstream media. While there’s certainly a public appetite for lottery-related stories, the game can also be a bountiful source of information...
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How Lottery Betting Works
The Emergence of Lottery Betting Brokers Lottery betting has become extremely popular, especially online. This relatively new form of gambling allows individuals to wager money on the results of official...
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Lotteries and Materialism
The act of buying a lottery ticket triggers materialistic fantasies which can result in a loss of self-control. This is according to research by Hyeong Min Kim, associate professor at...
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Lottery Winners Who Lost Their Tickets
Imagine how devastating it must be if you hit the lottery jackpot only to discover that, um, you’ve lost the winning ticket. Such an occurrence has the potential to be...
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When Lottery Syndicates Go Wrong
Forming a syndicate can dramatically improve your chances of winning a lottery jackpot. So effective is this strategy that an estimated 1 in 3 lottery winners around the world are...
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