A retired woman from Traralgon, a country town in Australia, who has won about 15 prizes out of the last 20 times she has played Tattslotto, has claimed the $1 million prize, which she won in last Saturday’s draw.

The winner, who uses a computer system to generate her entries, said that her earlier prizes had been from different divisions, but this is the first time she had won a Division One prize.

She plans to use most of the prize money in helping her family,

“Usually I leave my ticket hanging on the fridge for a while, but yesterday I just decided to get last Saturday night’s one checked and was surprised to find out that I had won $1 million,” she said.

This winning entry was submitted at Plaza Lotto in Traralgon.

Australian Lotto prizes are paid in full, in cash, and are tax free!

Londonderry (Northern Ireland) man, Ryan Magee, had a premonition that he would win a share of the massive £96 million EuroMillions jackpot on Friday 8th February - and today he is Northern Ireland's third biggest National Lottery millionaire, worth almost £6.5 million.

The IT specialist was so sure he would strike it rich that he bought 11 tickets in four different towns - and one of them did the trick. It was one of 16 tickets throughout Europe that shared the huge fortune - and one of six bought in the UK. The computer expert, who is expecting his second child with wife Margaret in August, runs his own servicing and repair business - he matched five numbers and one Lucky Star number to win £6,462,181.30 after the huge jackpot rolled down to the next winning prize level.

Ryan said: "In the week leading up to Friday's draw I was certain I would win. I just couldn't get it out of my head so on the day, while I was travelling on business, I bought tickets in Omagh, Strabane, Coleraine and Londonderry. The winning ticket was the last one of the 11 I checked by which time the numbers were in my head so I knew straightaway that I'd won. But despite my premonitions I still couldn't believe it."

Top of the Magee's shopping list is a pet dog for 10 year-old son, Lee - while Ryan has his eye on a Ferrari, which now has pride of place as the screen-saver on his home computer, and Margaret fancies 'a nice house in the country'.

AVOID GEOMETRIC PATTERNS: Back in the days when the Washington State Lottery was a 6 from 44 game, the organizers used to track player number selections. The number selection 1-2-3-4-5-6 was the 10th most popular combination, being chosen by typically 1,200 players every week. So had those numbers come up for a $1 million prize, each "lucky" player would have won just $833.33, which could be paid as $3.47 a month for 20 years or around $400 in immediate cash!

The next Powerball drawing, on February 20, will be for an expected jackpot of $100 million. If you're in one of the 30 Powerball states, get your NetLotto entries in now.

The next Mega Millions drawing, on February 19, will be for an expected jackpot of $220 million. If you're in one of the 12 Mega Million states, get your NetLotto entries in now.

NetLotto remains the only system to have successfully predicted a winning Mega Millions entry, for a jackpot prize of $31 million. You can check out the winning entry here.

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Estimated Jackpot for February 20, 2008 is $37 million.

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