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Luck leads to the most amazing National Lottery wins

Luck is all around, it’s everywhere – especially, it seems, if you spend your time talking to National Lottery winners. So many have a quirky story where fate, or maybe Lady Luck, seem to have guided them to their win. There seems to be no recipe for luck, it can come from anywhere, and suddenly you are left holding a giant cheque and dancing all the way to the bank.

Here are six stories of how Lady Luck played her hand:

Driven to win

Ray Wragg used to drive around Sheffield and write down car number plates to pick his numbers for each Lotto draw. In 2000 this method delivered six lucky numbers worth £6M to Ray and his wife Barbara. They have certainly shared their luck, giving away over £5M of their win. They continue to pick numbers from number plates and plan to win again and give even more away.

Sour taste of win

Darlington greengrocer Paul Watson had finished his long day, locked up the shop and was in his car when he remembered his wife had asked him to bring some sour cream home to go with their dinner of chilli. Despite having been up since 5am, something persuaded him to walk back to the supermarket to get the sour cream, and a Lotto ticket. The next morning the couple celebrated a £1.2M win.

Last minute decision

Camden roadsweeper Joseph Whiting was at home and not planning on going anywhere. “At 19.15pm ish I suddenly decided I would go to the shop and put the lottery on. It must have been fate, I shouldn’t have gone out, and still don’t know why I got up and decided to go.” With the draw closing at 19.30pm, he remembers the newsagent checking the clock before getting his ticket at 19:20:08pm. He left the shop with three Lucky Dips® safely tucked in his wallet, one of which turned out to be worth £4.5M.

A rainy day

Self-employed builder Gareth Bull was stuck in his van bemoaning the rain that was stopping him getting on with a job. To avoid getting wet he drove with the lads to a shop he'd never been to before. There he bought a single EuroMillions Lucky Dip®. That rainy day purchase proved to be a winner, worth a stunning £40.6M.

A nest egg

When his pet chicken, Kiev, walked all over his calculator, Billy Gibbons used the five numbers, plus one of his own for his Lotto ticket. Kiev's five numbers came in, and Billy banked a £1,297 win. Billy renamed Kiev to 'Lucky', to celebrate his win.

A nice accident

Ever get your days of the week mixed up? Lee Kirk from Hertfordshire did. He asked for a Lucky Dip® for that night’s draw thinking it was Wednesday night and Lotto, when in fact it was a Tuesday and he ended up with a EuroMillions ticket. The car salesman ‘accidently’ matched five numbers in the draw he didn’t want a ticket for, and celebrated a £50,396.10 win.

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