Big Win Stories. What does the math say about whether it is realistic to win the lottery? Is it really possible to win the jackpot?

Hello, friends. Today in the article we will introduce you to popular foreign lotteries and tell you how to play them :)

Regardless of our faith or complete disbelief in luck, almost every one of us bought a lottery ticket at least once in our lives. Perhaps some of you brought coupons as an addition to the main gift to relatives and friends and rejoiced with them small wins and hoped for big ones.

But big win in rubles is not the same thing as a big win in euros or dollars. Therefore, for now we will not touch domestic lottery operators, but will discuss in great detail the world lotteries that Russians can play. After all, a lot of players want to know for sure whether it is possible to spend a fairly large amount on a ticket and be sure that if they win, the prize will be received.

We will also consider foreign lotteries for the possibility of our compatriots participating in them and for their low popularity in Russia. Let's discuss the reasons why such a cool attitude is caused.

And here's another important thing: it is worth considering foreign lotteries in terms of honesty and conscientiousness of intermediaries. After all, tickets for most of the world's lotteries cannot be purchased on the territory of our country - the player must contact the reseller. But where is the guarantee that as a result he will receive not some piece of paper, but a real ticket for a real draw and will be able to take part in it. In the event of a win, there is also no guarantee that the award will find a winner.

In general, you need to keep your eyes open with foreign lotteries - a lucky break loves attentive, focused and vigilant people. And note: I do not dissuade you from trying your luck in a foreign game, but I urge you to carefully study the conditions and be choosy in choosing intermediaries.

We are sure that this question is of interest to many visitors to our site, so we will give it a separate subtitle.

Reason 1. Reluctance to attract foreign players

The first and main reason why little is known about foreign drawings in our country is not the most ardent desire of the organizers of the drawings to encourage foreign citizens to participate in the lottery.

There are enough of their contenders for the Jackpot, and then - lottery operators they are accustomed to listening to the opinion of the people, who are not always satisfied with the fact that funds (sometimes on an especially large scale) flow abroad.

Reason 2. Minimum information about world lotteries

Not all official sites have a Russian version, and if there is, then the game is described there very concisely, if not sparingly. And some of the resources are blocked for free access.

Nonetheless, foreign lotteries Russians are becoming more and more attractive due to high winnings and transparency of the lottery process. Players who have long blazed their way into the world of foreign lotteries argue that that lottery world is somewhat different from ours: even the prizes of the third category in international lotteries are much higher than in domestic ones. Some have developed their own systems to win a little, but consistently.

But the most important thing when participating in a foreign lottery is not even to make a bet, but to find a conscientious intermediary through which you can purchase world lottery tickets and receive winnings. For people who managed to reach official and honest intermediaries (also a kind of lottery), their opinions about foreign lotteries and reviews about them are only positive.

What lottery can you really win: Gosloto VS Foreign?

Buying a ticket and guessing the numbers is far from the only criterion needed to win the lottery.

First of all, you should pay attention to the honesty and transparency of the organizers. Therefore, let's try to clarify which lotteries are more honest with their players: ours or foreign ones?

Should we trust our organizers?

The issue is debatable and we will not draw any specific conclusions, but we will name the reasons why one can still doubt honesty.

Let's start with a simple video made by the REN TV channel:

Let's summarize the information from the video:

• state lotteries are not really "state" ones. They belong to only one founder;
• broadcasts on television are shown in the recording;
• the organizers have information about the selected combinations, which means they can dispose of it as they like, for example, in the results, give out unselected numbers.

And this is not all, there are several more reasons not to trust the state. lotto:

• draws on the official website in most lotteries do not conduct a live broadcast. Instead, use a "generator random numbers”, and this is a very dubious decision;
• over the past few years, participants have received great amount complaints and even more reviews on the Internet;
• the Stoloto website has subjugated almost all popular lotteries, thus completely monopolizing itself;
• lack of information about lucky winners- this also makes you think about who gets the main prizes.

Actually, many of these reasons can be further commented on and tried to justify. Here's where to look. For example, the same bad reviews are normal for any gambling game, and some lotteries are broadcast live.

But let's watch another reveal video:

Should we trust foreign organizers?

We consider it not entirely correct to evaluate all foreign lotteries at once, since there are quite a lot of them in the world and everyone has their own rules. But if you choose the most popular of them, then compared to ours, they look much more honest and transparent:

• Most of them give most proceeds to the state and to charitable foundations;
• Each of them holds live-only draws;

Just two simple things, and all suspicions and unnecessary questions immediately disappear. Do you agree?

Foreign lotteries in Russia - how to buy?

The most common way to purchase a ticket for a game is to buy it online. Fortunately, now you can find a lot of lotteries in the world online.

But if for some reason there is no opportunity to purchase a ticket via the Internet, you will have to use the services of intermediaries. But this method has its drawbacks:

1. The intermediary may ask for an advance payment - and this is a clear “bell” not to get involved. You may or may not receive a valid ticket.
2. Dealers can inflate the price, the difference for a ticket is their earnings.
3. Cheating a player is not uncommon among unscrupulous intermediaries. It is expressed in the first two ways, and, what is most offensive, you can pay for a ticket and not get a win on it.

How to buy a ticket without risks?

We can advise three ways to protect yourself from scammers when buying foreign lotteries tickets:

• to travel independently to the country where the draw is held and buy a ticket there;
• find a trusted intermediary and use his services or ask a good friend who is located in another country to buy a ticket;
• purchase world lotteries online on a special website.

Personally advise a good mediator there is no possibility - I do not know such. But that doesn't mean they don't exist. If you have friends experienced players to international lotteries, you can ask them. I don’t think they will see you as a competitor and begin to hide information - usually they will find out about trusted bona fide dealers - through the good old word of mouth.

If buying tickets through intermediaries is not your method, then we can offer you a service that has been working as intermediaries for several years:

Agentlotto is the best intermediary of the world's lotteries

Agenlotto international service intermediary, which allows you to buy and receive a lottery ticket in the USA, Europe, Australia and Latin America for users from anywhere in the world.

Speaking more specifically about this resource, it provides a huge selection of lotteries - about 20 with various sizes of main, secondary and small winnings.

And this is very convenient for the player, since he can compare lottery conditions, jackpots, and even external design each of the lotteries. And this is important, many players choose their game visually: they liked the picture - bought a ticket - hit the jackpot.

By the way, about the main prizes: the site specialists have selected for Russian players the world's lotteries with the largest jackpot and not the most "biting" price per bet.

Here are the following lotteries:

• American lotteries:
  • Superlotto Plus
  • Lotto Texas
  • New Jersey Pick-6
• From pan-European
  • EuroJackpot
• From Spanish:
  • La Primitiva;
  • El Gordo;
  • BonoLoto
• From Italian:
  • SuperEnalotto
• From British:
  • UK Lotto.

As you can see, world lotteries without intermediaries can be purchased on one of the popular resources, although this is also a kind of intermediary, but we believe that it is much more reasonable to use the services of time-tested resources than strangers.

Moreover, you can buy both one ticket of a lottery that you have long liked, and test yourself for luck in several draws. different countries and continents.

It works like this:

1. Register on the site
2. Choose the lottery you want to play
3. Buy tickets
4. In a few hours you will receive scanned copies in your personal account
5. Waiting for the draw
6. In case of victory:
   • if the amount is small: you will receive money for electronic wallets
   • if the amount is large: get the original ticket and go for winnings to the country where the lottery was held or issue a power of attorney for a service employee and he receives the winnings for you and then sends it to you.

Video instruction:

Should you trust intermediaries?

Even if you do not study these sites very carefully, then a column-report on the winners catches your eye:

The name of each is written under the flag of the country where he lives, and opposite is the amount of winnings. The people are real. Most of all among the lucky Poles and Germans, there are even two Belarusians and a Kyrgyz. Why not proof that a foreign lottery for Russians can be successful and super-successful?

Is the report not enough?

Then take an interest in reviews about resources, for example, Agentlotto began its work in 2012 and during this period collected more positive opinions about its activities than negative ones. The same can be said about the pioneer of such services: TheLotter, only he started work in

And the most important of the arguments: when buying a ticket, the player receives a scanned copy of it and has something to present to the organizers of the lottery in case of winning.

World lotteries in Russia - reviews. Why doesn't anyone win?

Judging by the feedback from the players, not so many people from Russia and the CIS countries take part in the drawings of the most popular lotteries in the world. And the smaller the percentage of players, the smaller the percentage of winners - everything is logical. Therefore, do not scare yourself with the thought that it is impossible to win in these foreign lotteries.

Those who regularly buy foreign lottery tickets claim that there is a chance of winning. Our fellow citizens cannot boast of huge prizes, but small cash rewards in the amount of 20 to 600 dollars (euros) periodically “smile” at them.

To the question why so few of our fellow citizens buy tickets for international lotteries, there is a completely logical answer. And not even one

1. Not everyone knows about the opportunity to play foreign lotteries in Russia and other post-Soviet countries
2. Those who have heard of such an opportunity do not believe in the honesty of the method of acquiring lottery coupons.
3. Those few who believe (or believed) got burned by dishonest intermediaries and stopped believing
4. Those who have not burned themselves play quietly and are not very willing to talk about this topic.

If there is little reliable information about the lottery, then, accordingly, there are few people who want to play. Here is a completely objective explanation why we have so few winners of foreign lotteries.

We do not insist that the Agentlotto website - perfect place for the purchase of tickets for international lotteries in Russia, because the price tags there are inflated somewhere by 2 times, and somewhere by three times. But on this moment- This is the best option to play without cheating.

There are other ways too, but they are suitable for people who often travel abroad:

• buy a ticket directly in the draw country
• wait for the draw
• get a win, if it happens, directly at the lottery office

Lotteries of the world without intermediaries - how to win the Jackpot?

There is no universal recipe for how to hit the jackpot in the lottery (whether through intermediaries or without them) does not exist. It is customary to assign a decisive role in the game to faith in one's luck. Well, it has also been noticed that those who buy tickets regularly win more often. It seems that these people are subconsciously tuned in to the wave of the game and the wave of victory. Perhaps this is indeed the case.

Foreign lotteries in Russia have not yet found their main winner. But there are a lot of “true” stories with hidden names about the Euromillions hitting the jackpot on the Internet. And they are all in two lines and some non-specific.

For example, this option: “Mr. L. from Russia became a millionaire in the drawing of the Euro lottery “Millions” (conditional name). One could attribute such secrecy to the reluctance of the newly-made rich man to “shine” to the whole world, but the point is often quite different: the same unscrupulous intermediary sites are trying to attract as many buyers as possible to their resource.

For the sake of objectivity, I will give you several examples of huge winnings that brought out ordinary ordinary people in the number of dollar multimillionaires and billionaires.

1. American lottery Powerball. On January 16, 2016, the $1.5 billion jackpot was won. It was divided between three players, the lucky one from the state of California was the first to “notice” his winnings and shamelessly posted a photo with a ticket on Instagram.
2. Mega Millions is also a US lottery. In 2012, the jackpot was hit at 640 million dollars. Also three winners, of whom only the Butlers dared to reveal themselves. They were very wise with their share of the $110.5 million winnings by hiring a financial advisor to raise the funds.
3. And again Mega Millions - 2007, 390 million dollars were played. Two big winners, one of whom, a trucker, bought a ticket from a small establishment where he usually took coffee on the road.

Our review of foreign lotteries

It is not difficult to navigate the rules of foreign lotteries - they are in many ways similar to ours: place a bet, wait for the draw. But if you doubt that you understand in what order to cross out the numbers, or how to pay for the purchase of a ticket, find the official website of world lotteries, perhaps you will get the necessary information there.

As a test, we tried to use the services of intermediaries to find out in more detail how it all works. As a result from three tickets in three different lotteries, we even managed to win $10 and safely withdraw them. We also made sure that a scanned copy of the purchased ticket is indeed provided to the players.

We did not try our luck anymore.

Conclusion

It is possible to play foreign lotto from Russia through intermediary sites. It is also possible to receive winnings - now within a few hours on electronic wallets or via Internet banking. Tickets are a little overpriced, but this is our service fee.

Actually, this is where our article comes to an end. We hope the material was useful to you.

Believe me, there are such huge lottery winnings that the numbers do not fit in the mind. Another question is whether the data on winnings are true, whether they were received by nominees, whether they received them at all, etc.

Such stories are needed, at least for the sake of people continuing to buy lottery tickets further, feeding the founders of the business.

Today we will talk about the biggest lottery wins.

Most recently, I heard on TV that a Russian family (mother and adult daughter) won 500 million rubles in the lottery, they were photographed for the media, smiling (talking about the November 2017 win, Voronezh). And the angry commentators echoed - “they are stupid, they will be found and robbed, it’s clear that they are from the village”, “ ex-husband now he learns about the condition that has fallen on his head and he will allegedly come to restore his family, new relatives will appear.

But I had other thoughts: “Well, in our country a person cannot win 500 million rubles ... and he cannot win abroad either ... especially a billion dollars. And if we got such a prize, then probably it is " figureheads", but they just look too easy for fakes."

Do you believe that it is possible for a person on the street who buys a random lottery ticket to win huge sums of money, hit the Jackpot, what is called?

We see many stories on TV where mere mortals won lotteries, neighbors give interviews, confirming that these very “Petya and Vasya, Masha and Sasha” from the first floor, forever unemployed and cheerful, won a couple of million rubles. And no one expected, but that's "lucky". Nobody tells us, the viewers, about where the newly-made millionaires spent their money, or they provide meager information ... However, few details are known about several families, especially those that squandered great wealth for nothing. For example, about the family of Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova.

But this is all on the screen, but did you personally have examples when your neighbors “hit the Jackpot”?? I have no. Unless I myself won a couple of times in competitions for several thousand rubles, but this is not a lottery. Among my acquaintances, including those who actively buy lottery tickets, there is not a single one who would win. I don’t know if it’s true or fiction that it’s possible to win, but a person, especially a Russian, will always hope for chance and luck more than anything else.

Let's talk about the biggest lottery wins among Russians.

About 1 million rubles were won by Yuri Ivanov from Tolyatti. As the hero says, he regularly bought tickets for 23 years, and he dreamed of the numbers of the winning ticket in a dream. What a story that is quite capable of cheering up those who spent several salaries and half their lives on lottery tickets waiting for a prize - wait, perhaps everything is still ahead!

1 million rubles won by a resident of the village of Vargashi, Kurgan region, and became the luckiest villager who hit the jackpot in the lotteries, because before that, the inhabitants of the outback did not receive more than 200 thousand rubles.

Alexander Osterenko from Samara region won 2.5 million rubles in 2011.

11 million rubles was once won by a passenger of Russian Railways on a passenger ticket, they searched for him for two weeks. Yes, according to the media, this is possible - to win a multimillion-dollar sum just by buying a Russian Railways ticket. A little later, another lucky man from Russian Railways won 8 million rubles.

Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova on December 30, 2001, with her husband and children, won 29 million rubles in the Bingo Show. At the same time, according to sources, the spouses bought two apartments, two cars for the amount they won, but they spent a lot of money on drinking and drinking. slot machines. Cars broke down after accidents, the apartment burned down in a fire, his wife died a few years later from a trophic ulcer, and her husband lives unsocially in a second apartment with his sons.

In 2009, a resident of Moscow, Evgeny Sidorov, won 35 million rubles in the Gosloto lottery. The man spent his winnings very prudently: he left with his family for his homeland, in the Lipetsk region, organized his own farm and carp breeding production.

100 million rubles went to Albert Begrakyan from St. Petersburg in 2009 (Gosloto 6 out of 45), of these, the lucky one built a hotel for 16.5 million rubles, bought real estate, a car, and helped his relatives.

In 2015, a resident of Kaliningrad won 126.9 million rubles in the mobile lottery.

In 2014 ("Gosloto 6 out of 45") Valery T from Omsk won 184 million rubles. His bet in the lottery was 810 rubles.

In the same 2014, a certain Mikhail from Nizhny Novgorod won 200 million rubles.

In 2016, a resident of Novosibirsk hit the jackpot in the Gosloto lottery as much as 358 million rubles, the name of the lucky man left a secret.

At the end of autumn 2017, a pensioner from Voronezh won 506 million rubles in the Stoloto lottery(True, earlier they said that this is a man). And this is the biggest lottery win in Russia. People comment on this event in different ways, and that now the grandmother will have to hide, otherwise she stupidly appeared on TV that they will be persecuted, while others write:

“Don't worry, no one will hide anywhere, because there was no woman from Voronezh who won 500 million rubles. This is a lottery promoting itself so that fools1 buy tickets more actively. Do you really think that an ordinary person can win 500 million rubles?

“We found a grandmother from a remote Siberian village, gave her 50 thousand or whatever she needed, gave her a different name, and now, buy our tickets to ng, what kind of PR they did for themselves throughout the country, how they will raise sales2.

“Yes, there are no 500 million. And this grandmother was paid 20 thousand. For this number on TV. Now she is sitting in the village of Glukharevo and no one will find her….”

There were several known cases when big winnings (26 million rubles) were not given to the Russians, for example, one person has been trying for several years to obtain the issuance of winnings to no avail.

And now for the biggest ones. lottery winnings in the world.

In 2000, the American got $363 million.

In 2002, a West Virginian plucked a D jackpot of $314.9 million.

Colombian Juan Rodriguez, who worked as a watchman, won $149 million in 2004.

In 2004, a US citizen won $209 million.

In 2005, the American won $340 million.

In 2006, the American won $230 million.

In 2006, again America, the prize is $365 million.

In 2008, an 84-year-old retiree from Missouri won $254 million.

In 2007 Mega Millions raffled off $390 million.

In 2013, three US residents won $488 million, the prize was divided among three.

In 2014, a California retiree hit a $425 million jackpot.

In 2012, two US residents won $587 million each, the prize was split in half.

$590 million won by a Florida resident in 2013. At that time, such a Jackpot was a record.

In 2012, Mega Millions raffled off as much as $640 million!! The prize was shared by two lucky winners.

Well, now an unreal amount !! And to be honest, I do not believe that it went to ordinary people.

In 2016, the Powerball lottery had the biggest win in the world - $ 1 billion 586 million, which went to three lucky ones, each with half a billion dollars.

So far, the records in the world and in Russia are as follows: in Russia, the biggest win was 500 million, in the world, 1.5 billion dollars for three.

In Russia, only 1% of the population play lotteries, while, for example, in France, the USA play 65-70% of the population.

Truth. That's how much I don't go to the post office - half the queue buys lottery tickets. I can’t imagine how things are then in France if there are 70 times more lottery lovers than we do.

One of the problems with quick wins is that they are ephemeral. Gifts of fate, "freebies" disappear as quickly as they appear. And the millions that have fallen on their heads sometimes bring more trouble than joy. For example, a person who did not know the price of making money does not know how to behave with them, he begins to spend everything chaotically or is afraid of them. Families break up, people become greedy, angry. But of course, good examples there is. When people put their winnings into a profitable business, but for this it is necessary that a person initially had business experience and knew how to make money. And all those who lived in drunken parties - everyone was lowered on them ...

« A person has a material threshold: the amount of money that he is used to managing. It is set subconsciously. As a rule, income increases gradually: they raised wages - the psyche adapted to the increase. And when a huge amount falls from the sky - this is an unbearable work for the body. A person simply does not know how to manage such money. Doesn't know what to do with them. It becomes a burden, not a blessing.

Plus, they start to announce distant relatives and old acquaintances. This is additional stress. And here the mechanisms that are not subject to consciousness are turned on. You're just trying your best to get rid of the money. That is why such winnings often just go nowhere. Or even worse - they get drunk very quickly. This makes it easier. It is almost impossible to cope with such stress on your own. It is better to seek the help of professional psychologists.

Of course, I want to say - someone is lucky, so I would like that, at least a couple of millionaires just like that !!! But as the sage said, it is better to teach a person to fish than to give him one... Those who do not know how to fish will eat and be hungry again, and those who know how to fish will always be full.

An excerpt from the dialogue of an old Soviet film, when a Sportloto ticket cost 60 kopecks, and maximum win amounted to 20 thousand rubles:

“Won or won, what difference does it make? Not in this case! And the fact that for 60 kopecks I have a hope to win 10 or 20 thousand rubles!!!”

Many people dream of getting a big fortune without any effort. Those who do not rely on themselves, or at least on the inheritance of wealthy relatives, are often ready to rely on fate. Let's say by participating in the lottery. Lotteries are especially popular in the United States of America. It is no coincidence that the most big wins to the lottery were obtained in the USA. It is worth noting that the winners do not receive the entire amount of the winnings. First of all, they have to decide whether they want to receive the money won in the form of relatively small annual payments, or whether they prefer to take it in cash. In the second case, the prize amount is significantly reduced. In addition, winners are required to pay a 25% federal tax on winnings.

Biggest lottery wins

1. Most big jackpot for the entire history ($ 390 million) was drawn in the American Mega Millions lottery on the night of March 7-8, 2007.

A few days before the draw, all over the country lined up in front of vending machines selling lottery tickets. huge queues. Over 1 million tickets were sold in New York City alone in an hour. The chance to win was 1 in 176 million, and two lucky ones took advantage of it - from the states of Georgia and New Jersey. Each received $190 million. The winners of one of the winning tickets were the spouses Harold and Elaine Messner from New Jersey, who bought it in a liquor store. The second winner, 52-year-old Georgia truck driver Ed Neighbors, purchased his ticket from a store in Dalton where he used to go for a cup of coffee.

2. Jackpot of $365 million. was drawn on February 18, 2006. A tidy sum went immediately to eight lucky ones from american state Nebraska.

Lincoln Meatpacking Workers Decided play international lottery Powerball for fun. When they found out they had won $365 million, they couldn't believe their luck. The winners recovered from the shock for several days before they appeared at the office of the organizers of the lottery. Two of them, 56-year-old Quang Dao and 34-year-old Dung Tran, are immigrants from Vietnam, and 26-year-old Alain Mabossou came to the US from Central Africa.

True, the lucky ones got only 177 million dollars, half of the winnings. Indeed, according to the rules of the lottery, the jackpot in full is paid to the winner only equal parts for 30 years. As is often the case, colleagues decided not to wait for annual payments, but to take the prize in cash, losing part of the prize amount. Therefore, after paying all taxes, each of them received about 15.5 million dollars in their hands.

Quang Dao decided to send some of this money to his family in Vietnam, and Alain Mabossou was going to invest in his education.

3. The jackpot of the Big Game lottery (currently Mega Millions) reached $363 million on May 9, 2000 - at that time it was a record figure not only for this game, but also for lotteries around the world.

Two Americans managed to break the jackpot - from Illinois and Michigan. As expected, both winners decided to collect their winnings immediately. After taxes, each lucky winner received $90.3 million.

One of the lucky ones was a certain Larry Ross from the town of Lansing. Moreover, as Larry himself admitted, he is not at all a fan of lotteries. I just decided to buy a $2 hot dog one day. small money I didn’t have it with me, and the seller didn’t have change from a hundred. Having quarreled a little, the man nevertheless found a way out: he went and bought 98 lottery tickets.

After receiving his prize, Ross was going to quit his job, buy new cars for himself and his wife, and also move to a safer area.

4. Two couples from Oregon won the fourth largest jackpot in American lottery history. The $340 million was shared between Francis and Bob Chaney, their daughter Carolyn West and her husband Steve.

Steve West, who bought the ticket, invested his $20 and his family added the remaining $20. He also admitted later that the lottery ticket was filled out all together.

The draw took place on 19 October. Two days later, private entrepreneur Steve West called on television and announced the win. After that, the lottery ticket was sent for examination, on Tuesday, November 8, its authenticity was confirmed.

Frances Cheney said she was scared by one of the biggest winnings in American history. Bob, 72, did not share his wife's fears and bought a yellow Hummer first.

5. In 2005, a $315 million prize went to seven employees of the Los Angeles-based Kaiser Permanente clinic. Some time before the prize draw, they bought 21 Mega Millions lottery tickets for all, agreeing to divide it among themselves if they win.

The American press called the newly minted millionaires the "lucky seven" because they did not want to disclose their names.

Traditionally, lottery winners decided to take the entire amount in cash. After paying all taxes, each of the clinic employees received approximately $25 million.

It should be noted that before the prize draw, the odds of winning were estimated at 1 in 176 million.

6. The $314.9 million jackpot was hit at the end of December 2002, on Christmas Eve.

Lucky Jack Whittaker from West Virginia had no idea what the win would turn out for him.

59-year-old Jack was robbed twice and arrested twice - for disorderly conduct and for drunk driving.

Further more. In the house of the unfortunate millionaire, they found the corpse of a friend of his granddaughter, who died of a drug overdose. And a couple of months later, the granddaughter herself died for the same reason - at the age of 17. Finally, he was sued by the casino administration in Atlantic City. Due to the fact that he allegedly owed the institution $ 1.5 million, and the checks issued by him for this amount turned out to be invalid ...

The millionaire himself is no longer happy with his winnings. And his wife believes that he should have just torn that "lucky" ticket.

7. The 2007 Powerball lottery winner was a 65-year-old Ohio auto mechanic named David Koterel and his two adult children who won $314.3 million.

Lynn Hiles, 46, worked at the post office, but after receiving prize money decided to quit. Her brother, 42-year-old David Koterel Jr., is a co-owner of a parts factory.

The Koterel family chose to take their winnings in cash, although this significantly reduced the amount. After taxes, they received $145.9 million.

Store owner who sells prize ticket received a promotion of one hundred thousand dollars.

The biggest win in Russia

And the biggest prize in Russia was paid in March 2009 to Albert Begrakyan, a resident of St. Petersburg. He won in the next draw of the All-Russian state lottery 100 million rubles. This is the biggest win in history. Russian lotteries. Albert came to Russia from Armenia in 2001 with his family: his wife and two daughters, aged 11 and 12. At first he worked as a store security guard, later he opened a grocery store. In 2006, he became the owner of a car service.

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Probably, there is no such person who has never experienced luck by playing the lottery in his life. Having bought a ticket for a hundred rubles, everyone becomes a potential millionaire. But luck is a capricious thing, and not everyone has had a chance to win, but to win big prizes- lot of units.

Lotteries are played all over the world. In Russia, only 1-2% of the population participate in lotteries, for comparison: the share of players in France is 70% of the total population of the country, the USA - 63%. Such a small percentage of players in Russia is explained by the distrust of Russians in lotteries. But among these percentages there are also winners who hit large jackpots.

Most of the lucky ones try to remain anonymous and do not tell anyone about their winnings. And this, of course, is correct, because big money attracts many ill-wishers, as well as new and old friends, newly-made relatives. Below are the 7 biggest lottery wins in Russia.

Seventh place. A chidhood dream

On May 29, 2015, a 37-year-old resident of the Kaliningrad region won 126 million rubles in the 6 out of 45 lottery. The winner was fond of lotteries as a child, since when he and his grandfather bought the first tickets for him, he dreamed of becoming famous winner lotteries. According to him, grandfather was very fond of lotteries, and when the drawing of prizes on TV began, everyone in the house fell silent.

The lucky one promised to use his winnings to build a playground for all the children in the area and, of course, for himself - a big house.

Sixth place. The shock of victory

184 million rubles, won in the draw of 735 on February 10, 2014 of the 6 out of 45 lottery, changed the life of one employee of a construction company from Omsk. I spent 800 rubles. He did not leave the house for three days, so he was affected by the shock of winning. The dream of a winner and a father of three was to buy big house by the sea in warm regions.

Fifth place. Anonymous Winner

August 2014 and the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery brought a prize of 202 million rubles to a 45-year-old resident Nizhny Novgorod, who was shocked by the victory for a month. The victory cost him 700 rubles. In his interviews, he asked to remain anonymous, because at first he did not want to tell anyone about the win. All we know about him is that he is married and has two children.

Fourth place. One hundred rubles ticket

300 million rubles - such a win was waiting for a resident of Novosibirsk in the Gosloto 4 out of 20 lottery on May 30, 2017. His happy ticket cost only 100 rubles on the Stoloto website. Remarkably, the prize of more than 300 million rubles in this lottery was drawn for the first time.

Third place. Doctor not believing in his luck

On February 27, 2016, in the State Lottery 6 out of 45, the doctor from Novosibirsk was lucky, and he won a little more than 358 million rubles. The bet cost him 1800 rubles. For three weeks the winner was going to Moscow to win, all this time it seemed to him a dream. According to the doctor himself, he checked the ticket six times and could not believe his luck, only by calling the call center of the lottery organizer, he was able to verify the victory. The winner himself is not new to lotteries, he has been playing for about 2 years using his winning formula. In an interview with Stoloto, the Novosibirsk man said that he would spend part of the money on charity, as well as on developing his business and on real estate in Moscow.

Second place. Excitement around victory

On May 21, 2017, 364 million rubles were drawn in the 6 out of 45 lottery. The winner was a resident of Sochi, who spent 700 rubles on a bet in mobile application. The newly made millionaire is a worker of culture. Due to the huge excitement that arose around the win, it was customary for the family council to go for money all together, but they did not have enough money for tickets, so the winner did not take the winnings for a long time. According to her, she wanted to contribute a third of the money to the election fund of the political party Communist Party.

More recently, it was considered the last big lottery win in Russia. But 2017 is rich in records.

First place. Modest retired millionaire

The biggest lottery win in Russia belongs to a resident Voronezh region, which won a fabulous amount of 506 million rubles in the lottery " Russian loto". So large sum was drawn on November 5, 2017 in a draw of 1204, and today is the largest lottery win in the history of Russia.

The organizers of the lottery searched for the 63-year-old winner for 2 weeks, as the lucky woman could not believe in her luck. "Russian Lotto" for the family is best gift for the holidays,” notes the new millionaire. The Voronezh pensioner said that she would spend this money on helping her children and grandchildren, and also donate part of the money to charity.

Money can not buy happiness

Big lottery wins in Russia and abroad did not bring only happiness to everyone, there are those for whom the win turned out differently.

In 2001, unemployed spouses from Ufa became winners in the Bingo Show lottery and won 29 million rubles. However, the win did not bring happiness. Spouses for 5 years spent the entire prize. But the main misfortune was the death of one of the winners due to alcohol abuse. According to one version, everything was facilitated by new relatives and friends who appeared out of nowhere, who asked for money for their needs and soldered the spouses.

6 out of 45 lottery winner Leningrad region Albert Begrakyan, who won 100 million rubles, after 2 years was left with debts to the state. Albert invested in real estate, expensive cars, land for the construction of a hotel, but ended up with a debt of 4.5 million rubles to the state.

In 2006, one US citizen Abraham Shakespeare had an incident worthy of any crime drama. He had no time to win $ 30 million, as he had a lot of relatives. But the scammers are not left out. Shakespeare was approached by a lady who promised to help him manage his money properly. And she ordered: she transferred all the money to her account, and soon Shakespeare himself was found dead with two bullets in his chest.

Jack Whittaker was a prosperous businessman, family man, and philanthropist until he hit the big jackpot in 2002. Whittaker is addicted to alcohol gambling abandoned his family. Within a few years, his entire fortune was spent, and the business collapsed.

Jackpots in world lotteries

But even the largest lottery winnings in Russia cannot be compared with the main prizes in the lotteries of the world. American lotteries are big fans of lotteries, because the largest jackpots are played on American lotteries, such as Powerball and Mega Millions. So, the largest lottery winnings in the world belong to:

1. On August 24, 2017, an American won over $758 million in the Powerball lottery. This is the biggest win of this lottery and the lotteries of the world, which fell on one ticket. Interesting feature lotteries in that the prize can be received in installments over 29 years or taken immediately, but then the amount of the winnings will be significantly less (about 2 times).

2. On January 16, 2016, three Americans shared an all-time Powerball lottery win of $1.5 billion. The chance of winning was only 1 in 290 million.

3. In May 2014, a resident of the US state of Florida won the jackpot of the same Powerball lottery, which was 590 million US dollars.

How to win the lottery?

The question of how to win the lottery arises for all players. There is no definite way to win. Each winner has his own secret of success, but not everyone is ready to share it. Most argue that this is just luck and luck, others follow certain rules:

• They play with an expanded bet, i.e. choose more numbers than possible in regular rate. Of course, the expanded rate provides for more investments, but the chance of winning increases.
• They participate regularly in lotteries and use the same combination all the time. They are waiting for the selected combination to bring the long-awaited prize.
• They play with friends, the so-called lottery syndicate. In this case, a group of people buys as many tickets of one lottery as possible, and if they win, they divide everything in half.
• Various mathematical formulas are used.

There are those who believe in happy days, numbers, clothes, talismans. They buy tickets, choose numbers that are significant for themselves on the ticket, use various conspiracies to win.

The statistics of large lottery wins in Russia suggests that every year the number of their participants is growing, and so are the winnings. The probability of hitting the jackpot is negligible and depends on the specific lottery. For example, the opportunity to win in the Gosloto 5 out of 36 lottery is approximately 1 to 367 thousand, in the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery - 1 to 8 million, in the Russian Lotto - 1 to 7 million.

If this article inspired someone to buy a ticket, remember that the winning percentage is very small, play for fun, maybe you'll get lucky.

In the US, the largest jackpot in the world was drawn in the popular Powerball lottery - the amount was 1.5 billion dollars! The name of the winner is not yet known, but official representatives of the organizers of the lottery said that winning ticket was purchased in suburban Los Angeles, California.

The lottery is held in 44 states of the country, and winning Powerball always becomes a sensation. The coveted prize goes to the one who correctly indicates the numbers of five white balls and one red one, which is called the Powerball.

In the meantime, let's take a look at the other lucky ones who have won the biggest Powerball jackpots, how much money they've won and what they've spent it on.

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In 2014, 75-year-old Emma Duvall won $2 million. She chose numbers she found in a fortune cookie in a New York City store.

A 19-year-old builder named Jonathan Vargas won $35 million in 2008. Jonathan chose the numbers using his family's dates of birth and ages. He later created the women's wrestling channel Wrestlicious.

In 2001, ex-convict David Edwards (who was convicted of armed robbery) won $41 million. David bought a mansion in Florida and a private jet. In just five years, he spent all his winnings and died at the age of 58 in a hospice.

In 2009, 27-year-old Jeffrey Wilson won $88 million. Jeffrey says that little has changed in his life since winning, except that he began to live in a bigger house. He donated part of the money to the children's hospital.

In 2005, 34-year-old Brad Duke won $220 million. However, after winning, Brad continued to ride his old car and work for another two and a half years. The fitness center instructor used his money wisely by hiring a team of financial advisors and investing his winnings.

In 2009, retired civil servant Solomon Jackson won $259 million. Mr. Jackson donated generous sums of money to a variety of educational causes, including Morris College, from which he graduated.

The Hill family won $293 million. The modest and pious family plans to spend the money on the education of their children (three sons and one adopted girl), grandchildren and nephews.

In 2002, 55-year-old contracting firm president Andrew Whittaker won $314 million. Andrew donated 10% of his winnings to Christian charities, he spent the other 14 million to open a fund to help families in need in West Virginia. Unfortunately, life after winning the former businessman did not work out - he was pursued by people who wanted to cash in on his luck, and two daughters died of a drug overdose.

In 2013, New Jersey's Pedro Quesada won $338 million. The former owner of the store used part of his winnings to pay child support to his family.

ConAgra Foods employees won $365 million. The lucky ones managed their money in different ways - someone built a house in Vietnam, someone quit their job and lives on the percentage of their investments, someone just enjoys life and does what they love, and two winners even got married.

In 2013, 16 employees of the company engaged in maintenance machines, shared the winnings of $448 million. The reaction of the winners was different - someone was insanely happy with the money, especially after the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, and some expressed dissatisfaction with the increased attention from the media.

In 2013, 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie of Florida, a retired teacher, won $590 million. We can say that it was the will of fate: an elderly woman was let in line for lottery tickets and she bought a ticket with the numbers already chosen.