Dangerous jackpot: how the winners of big lotteries become hostages of millions. Biggest Lottery Wins Winning Russian Lotto Jackpot

As it turned out, some winners lost everything they got. Just in case you ever get lucky, protect yourself from mistakes and failures by reading 10 stories that happened to lottery winners. Some of these winners made stupid mistakes, and for some, the win was fatal:

Story 1. $750,000 - Transfer a ticket to a friend

In 2010, illegal immigrant Jose Antonia Cua-Toc bought a winning lottery ticket in Georgia. This ticket brought a prize of 750 thousand dollars, but because of his illegal status and fear that he would be deported back to Guatemala, Cua-Toca was afraid to take his winnings. To avoid deportation, Cua-Tok gave the winning lottery ticket to his boss, Erick Cervantes, arranging for Cervantes to collect the winnings for him. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly) this plan backfired on Cua-Tok. Cervantes took the money for himself, saying that Kua-Tok just bought a ticket for him. Luckily, in 2012, the court ruled in Kua Tok's favour, after watching security camera footage of the ticket-buying process.

Thus, if you win the lottery, take the winnings yourself, so as not to spend money on lawyers and lawyers later!

Story 2. $1 million - Throw the ticket in the trash

We all accidentally throw away shop receipts or notes we need sometimes, but one couple accidentally threw away their lottery ticket with a winnings of one million dollars. One day during a routine trip to the supermarket, Joanne and Joseph Zagmi (Joanne and Joseph Zagmi) bought a lottery ticket, from which the protective field must be removed to find out the size of the winnings. After returning home, they unpacked their purchases, leaving their ticket in an empty bag. The package was then thrown into the trash can. It is inexplicable how, but the couple remembered that they threw away the ticket and the next day they emptied the entire trash can and found that lucky ticket. The saying goes that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Well, the Zegmi's trash brought them one million dollars.

So remember: check your packages to make sure they are completely empty. Throw it away afterwards. And then you can throw a million!

Story 3. $1 million - buy a ticket and forget about it

Watch the lottery tickets you buy or your story could end up like Ron Yurcus of Illinois. Yurkus bought a lottery ticket back in August 2012 and immediately forgot about it. Just three months later in November, Yurkus was clearing his desk and found a pile of lottery tickets. He decided to check them out. As it turned out, one of the tickets, bought three months ago, was the winning one. The winnings amounted to one million dollars.

The lesson to be learned from this story is that you need to clean your house from time to time!

Story 4. $2 million - Steal a car

Some people have problems that cannot be solved by winning the lottery. Such was the case with John Ross Jr. of California, who was accused of aiding and abetting a car theft in 2012. Stealing a car was an extremely strange act for him. Ross won two million dollars into the California lottery just a few months ago. Immediately after being declared the winner, Ross said he planned to buy a car for himself because, at 29, he had never owned a car. Ironically, Ross ended up behind bars for assisting in the theft of a car just three months after winning the lottery.

Note for the future: try not to spend lottery winnings on lawyers and lawyers, stealing cars is bad!

Story 5. $5.4 million - lose winnings

Won the lottery - lucky! No one would have thought that the winner of the lottery would be so reckless that he would lose all his winnings in the casino. Evelyn Adams is a New Jersey woman who won the lottery twice. It would seem, what else is needed?! The whole world is open to you. This continued until the story ended. Winning the lottery in total over five million dollars, Adams lost most of the casino in Atlantic City. I must say that Adams was very generous and shared her winnings with everyone who asked her for help.

Today, all her lottery money is gone. But she lived these years in a big way!

Story 6. $15 million race to the bottom

Many people, if they won the lottery, would invest in real estate, cars, education, etc. Michael Carroll had very different plans for his 15 million jackpot. In 2002 he won the British lottery. Michael decided to use his money to compete in the Demolition Derby with his new car. Survival racing is a type of motorsport in which drivers smash their own and opponents' cars by ramming them. The last driver whose vehicle continues to function is the winner. In addition to destroying cars, Michael spent money on drugs and women, which is why he ended up in prison several times. Michael lived luxuriously until the money ran out.

Unfortunately, when you spend all your lottery winnings on smashing your machines without trying to somehow invest and multiply them, they quickly run out. As he destroyed cars over and over again, he also destroyed his own millions!

Story 7. $15 million - Steal the jackpot

Some people to win the lottery having to buy tickets every week for years. That was the case with Etta May Urquhart, who bought California lottery tickets for 18 years. As with Kua-Tok, she made the mistake of handing over her ticket. Etta was so excited (finally won $15 million) that she gave the ticket to her son Ronny Orender. She wanted her son to receive the jackpot on her behalf and pass it on to her. Ronnie took the ticket and got the money, taking it for himself. The mother promptly sued her son for embezzling her winnings.

Again, no suitable person was found. A person you can trust with your lottery winnings. Even family members cannot be trusted!

Story 8. $31 million can't buy happiness

Billy Bob Harrell Jr. from Texas plucked $31 million jackpot in 1997. Billy has made a number of investments to improve the lives of his family members. In fact, he made a lot of purchases that anyone who won the lottery would do. I bought houses, cars for all my relatives, made charitable donations, etc. But in the following months, the process of shopping turned into a bad habit. Billy bought another house, after an even bigger house, two more cars. His friends and family said he went too far. Thanks to such spending, the lucky man found that he was left without money in less than two years. The lottery win caused Billy financial stress. And ultimately the man committed suicide.

With the money you win, you can buy a lot of unusual things, but it is obvious that the winners have never been able to, regardless of the number of zeros on their check.

Story 9. $315 million - love for striptease

2002 was a rich year for catastrophic mistakes by lottery winners. Jack Whittaker from West Virginia won the American won $315 million. He led the same destructive lifestyle as Carroll, Whittaker spent a lot of money on strip clubs. Before winning the lottery, Jack was already a rich man. You can often meet rich people who spend fortunes on women and strip clubs. It was because of his hobbies that our lucky man made a fatal mistake. About a year after winning the lottery, Jack was at a West Virginia strip club with a suitcase of $545,000 in cash. He did it “because he could”. He left a suitcase with cash in his car. The thieves broke the glass and stole it. Because of this incident, the managers of the strip club were charged with trying to drug Jack and steal his suitcase of money.

Story 10. $16.2 million - contract killer for brother

We have already described the story above, in which they said that you cannot trust even the closest people. A similar story happened with William "Bud" the third (William "Bud" Post III), who won $16 million in 1998. His brother tried to hire a hitman to kill William and his wife so he could collect the winnings. This attempt failed, but William continued his life anyway in very difficult conditions until he died in 2006. All these years he had a hard time, before his death he was broke, he was forced to give 5 million to the owner of the house in which he lived, and the business in which he invested went bankrupt.

Although William, after winning, managed to avoid death from his brother (brother went to prison when the crime was solved), his life did not go like clockwork. After all, as we have seen from these unfortunate stories, winning the lottery does not guarantee an easy life!

A resident of Krasnodar won more than 31 million rubles in the lottery. And last year, a lucky man from the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles, which was the biggest jackpot in the history of Russia.

Here's what we know. This is a resident of the Voronezh region. He bought his ticket at one of the local retail outlets. Just imagine how it could be: he came, bought a ticket for the 1204th edition, - the message says.

Psychologists are already advising the newly-made millionaire to be careful.

A huge unexpected win is a serious test for the human psyche. A resident of the Voronezh region, who hit the jackpot of 506 million rubles, is better off lying low, experts say.

In their opinion, there will be a lot of people who want to share the triumph with the winner, and most importantly, the amount won.

He will have to fight off all sorts of relatives, petitioners, acquaintances, friends and just those who want to get their share of the pie. And this, of course, requires some kind of psychological stability, and, perhaps, even for some period of time, it will be necessary to somehow lie down on the bottom, disappear so that people do not torture him with requests, phone calls, and so on. psychologists.

How the fate of the newly-made millionaire will turn out is unknown, but many previous “lucky ones” quickly found themselves broke after winning.

In 2001, a Ufa family became the winner of the "Bingo Show" draw - it received 29 million rubles. The winners from Ufa chose alcohol as the main item of their expenses. They also constantly lent large sums of money, helped their acquaintances to repay loans. As a result, the winnings evaporated in just five years. The "lucky ones" themselves admitted that big money did not bring them happiness.

In 2009, 36-year-old Albert Begrakyan, a resident of the Leningrad Region, won 100 million rubles at Gosloto. He quickly lost all the money: he bought several apartments in the center of St. Petersburg, a Lexus car, and a land plot in the Krasnodar Territory. The winner shared 12 million with his relatives. The entire amount was not only completely spent in two years, but the "lucky one" still owed the state 4.5 million rubles, since he did not pay the tax in full for his big win. Therefore, now part of Albert's property has been arrested, and he himself has been banned from traveling abroad.

Could not resist the crazy spending and many foreign lottery winners. In 1988, Pennsylvania resident William Post won $16.2 million in the lottery and squandered the entire amount in a few months buying cars and speedboats. After that, he admitted to reporters that he likes being bankrupt much more than a lottery multimillionaire.

In 1993, Janit Lee, an immigrant from South Korea who moved to the US, won $18 million, and eight years later, after giving away most of her money to political parties, public organizations and educational programs, she also declared herself bankrupt.

"There is no limit to human greed"

West Virginia businessman Andrew Whittaker won $315 million on Christmas Day 2002. After taxes, he received $114 million. However, just four years later, he was effectively penniless. His generosity, claims from applicants for his money, as well as alcoholism are to blame for this. But even this is not the main thing: his daughter, who also had a test of money, was found dead in her father's house. The cause of death was a drug overdose. This happened just two years after the win, and in 2009, another daughter of the winner was found dead.

Since I won the lottery, I realized that there is no limit to human greed, the winner himself said years later. - Now I know: if a person has something, then there will definitely be someone who wants to take it away. It is a pity that I did not tear up this ticket then.

Wherever I went, these people were everywhere, - Andrew recalled. “For example, I go to a basketball game, and during the game, one hundred people after another come up to me to ask for money, trying to pity me because they are poor or have sick relatives.”

Never give anyone money just like that, - Andrew shared his experience. Because the more you give, the more they want to get from you. Give money once - and everyone around you will consider you a rag and pounce on you like a flock of jackals.

Breaking Bad

Billy Bob Harrell Jr. from Texas hit the $31 million jackpot in 1997. With the winnings, he bought houses and cars for all his relatives, and made charitable donations. But in the following months, the shopping process turned into a bad habit. Billy bought another house, after - an even larger house, two more cars. The lucky man was left without money in less than two years. The lottery win caused Billy financial stress. And in the end, the man committed suicide.

American 55-year-old businessman Jack Whittaker won $315 million. He was offered to take the jackpot with the entire amount that would have been paid to him over the years, or an amount three times less, but with the ability to spend it immediately. Jack chose the second option. He spent almost 10% of the money on the construction of churches, opened his own charitable foundation, which helped poor families. The man even thanked the woman from whom he bought the winning ticket: he gave her a mansion, a car and gave out 50 thousand dollars.

Then he became interested in gambling, and one day a large casino filed a lawsuit against him, because he owed a large amount. He began to apply to the bottle, left the family. Many wanted to cash in on him, so Jack was constantly accused of sexual harassment and attempted murder.

As a result, his business failed, the fund closed, he spent or gave away all the money he won, and his beloved granddaughter was found dead.

"I wish I hadn't won!", "Devil's Jackpot!" - oddly enough, the fate of many lottery winners was not very successful. Someone drank away, others could not cope with the pressure and became recluses, but this is the dream of millions! How often do we imagine what will happen if a huge amount of money falls on us and we are happy to fly away to paradise. What would you spend millions of rubles on?
As a rule, the winners are people who regularly buy lottery tickets, they spend no more than 1,500 rubles on one bet.

1. In Tula, the family won 3 million rubles

Natalya, the mother of the family, regularly bought tickets to the 6 out of 36 lottery, and one day one of them turned out to be lucky. She accepted the win emotionally: “I laugh, tears flow down my cheeks, I can’t really explain anything. Somehow I say that we are now millionaires.
The family lives in the Tula region, so the children's weddings will be played for the amount won and they will purchase separate apartments for them.

2. Stoloto regularly publish information about who won and how much, as well as stories from the winners

3. Albert Begrakyan won 100 million rubles in 2009

And, as is usually the case with people who are not accustomed to living luxuriously, he began to "litter" with money. He bought an apartment in St. Petersburg, which he had long dreamed of, Lexus was the latest model at that time, the desire to stop doing small business led him to decide to build a hotel in the Krasnodar Territory and bought a plot there, gave almost 10 million on credit to acquaintances and friends, I also went on vacation with my family.
A few years later, there was nothing left of the large amount, moreover, Albert owed the state almost 5 million rubles, because he never paid the taxes from the winnings to the end.

Today he is banned from traveling abroad. Albert believes that if fate gave him a second chance, he would have spent money wisely.

He is still invited to various shows and interviewed, it’s probably a shame to repeatedly admit that he made a mistake with the choice

4. Omsk Valery won another record amount in 2014 - almost 190 million rubles in Gosloto

This struck the 48-year-old resident of Omsk so much that he did not leave the apartment for several days, the organizers could not contact him, whom he categorically forbade to disclose his data or publish photos. He spent 800 rubles on a lucky ticket.
Almost nothing is known about the winner, only that he lived all his life in Siberia and has three children. After the victory, he moved his family from a cold city closer to the south, to the sea.

5. Mikhail from Nizhny Novgorod won a record amount of 202,441,116 rubles

The man came for a win only a few months later and disappeared from the radar of the media. The organizers could not find out anything about the winner.

6. Do you refuse conductors who offer to participate in the lottery while they distribute linen? But Margarita won as much as 10 million

At that time, her husband left the woman and left her with two children. Financial problems began to follow one after another. The husband sued Margarita's apartment in order to unwind and not go crazy, the woman went to her friend by train. There, along with linen, I bought a ticket.
She later checked the company's website and found that she had accidentally won a large amount of money.
“Now we will have housing, a car,” Margarita said, receiving the winnings, “The ex-husband can keep everything for himself, we can handle it ourselves.”

7. Evgeny Sidorov won 35 million rubles

He lived with his family in Moscow, but after the victory he left for his native Lipetsk region, where he began to develop farming, build roads, and build cowsheds. He also created a carp pond for paid fishing.

8. A record amount of 358 million rubles was won by a man from Novosibirsk

On the other day, the media wrote and talked about a big win all day, but the man did not immediately understand that it was about him, he even envied that lucky guy from the news a little. He left his ticket somewhere, completely forgetting about it, and when he found it, a nervous smile slipped across his face.
Of course, this is hard to believe. The Novosibirsk resident went to win with his best friend, wife and two children, but he did not tell them the purpose of the trip in order to stun him at the time of receiving the prize.
He planned to spend the money on good deeds, and then move to Moscow, buy a house, start a business.

9. The famous story that proves that fate provides a chance to fix everything, but only a few can take it.

In 2001, the Mukhametzyanovs won a million dollars in the Bingo Show. Unemployed residents of the Ufa region were local drunkards, and in order to manage the winnings that had fallen on them, the organizers decided to assign a person to the couple who would monitor financial affairs. The Mukhametzyanovs bought apartments in the center of Ufa, one of which burned down, several expensive cars, which they managed to break in a drunken stupor.

The couple had two children, they dropped out of school and began to lead a wild life. Vodka flowed like water, and the parents had various strange acquaintances and non-existent relatives. As the neighbors of the spouses say, Nadezhda sometimes threw in her hearts that it would be better if she did not win this million, it would be easier to live ...
Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova died in 2006 in complete poverty, survived only 5 years of luxurious life ...

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

November 2, a resident of the US state of North Carolina Kimberly Morris in one day, the amount of winnings for which exceeded one million dollars. The woman was offered to receive the entire amount in the form of payments of 50 thousand dollars over 20 years, or else to take 600 thousand immediately. Morris opted for a lump sum and took home almost $420,000 after all taxes were deducted.

$758.7 million American Powerball lottery winning ticket in Massachusetts on August 24, exact location not named.

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

On October 15, a resident of the federal state 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 drawing of the international lottery Eurojackpot. According to the state company Eesti Loto, this win is the biggest in the history of lotteries in Estonia.

On July 29, a resident of German Hesse 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 $429.6 million Powerball lottery in the US state of New Jersey. The probability of winning is 1 in 292.2 million.

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

On February 27, a resident of Novosibirsk, a participant in Gosloto 6 out of 45, Gosloto in 358 million 358 thousand 466 rubles. He took part in three draws. His lucky bet, which the winner made in one of the city's lottery kiosks, cost 1,800 rubles. The record fell on the 1885th edition.

On 15 February, the UK's national lottery operator Camelot confirmed that the United Kingdom had filed nearly £25 million in Europe's biggest lottery Euromillions.

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

On September 19, a winning $399.4 million Powerball lottery ticket at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina.

On August 25, the media reported that a resident of Switzerland 93.6 million euros in 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 the states of New Jersey and Minnesota, in the amount of $448 million.

June 5 organizers of the Powerball lottery in May. She was 84-year-old Gloria Mackenzie from Florida. She bought a lottery ticket at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, where only 13,000 people live. She had the option to choose annual payments or a lump sum payment. By choosing the latter, McKenzie received only $370.8 million instead of $590.5 million, which was the nominal amount of the winnings. Mackenzie has won the largest single-person win in US history.

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 resident of the UK in the pan-European lottery EuroMillions over 81 million pounds (nearly 95 million euros). The anonymous winner immediately became 908th in the list of the richest Britons.

On April 26, the media reported that a resident of the US state of New Jersey, 44-year-old Pedro Quezada, on a Powerball lottery ticket. After paying all the necessary taxes, Quezada had about $152 million left in his hands.

April 6, two residents of Belgium for two 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 resident of France won one of - 169.8 million euros in the pan-European lottery Euro Millions.

On November 6, four winners shared the biggest jackpot in Australia. The OZ lotto won AUD 112 million.

On September 18, in the 477th draw of Gosloto 6 out of 45, the accumulated super prize at expanded rates, equal to 152 million 723 thousand 884 rubles, was divided among four participants.

August 11 resident of the UK pan-European lottery Euromillions, which amounted to 148 million pounds (190 million euros).

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

On March 7, 81-year-old Rhode Islander Louise White entered the popular $210 million Powerball lottery in the US, putting the winning ticket into a Bible the night before the draw and sleeping with it.

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

February 15, local media that a resident of China's Sichuan won the lottery nearly 42 million dollars. China's Fuli Caipiao Lottery Center said a resident of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, has won 200 million yuan ($41.3 million) in the Two-Color Ball lottery. The lucky winner of the prize had to pay 50 million yuan ($7.9 million) in taxes and 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 person guessed a combination of seven numbers and an additional digit. The ticket was paid for in the city of Maribor.

Material prepared on the basis of open sources

The lottery is a chance to get rich for all Russians who dream of a better life. Multi-million dollar jackpots are played daily in state lotteries. To get money, you need to guess several numbers or purchase a ticket with a combination made in advance. Some Russians are more fortunate than others and have become multimillionaires through their own luck.

Below you will find information about the 7 biggest wins in the history of Russian lotteries, the names of the winners, the secrets of how they managed to succeed and what they spent large sums on.

Natalia (Voronezh region)

Natalia Vlasova is the owner of the record jackpot in Russia. On November 5, 2017, a pensioner from the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles. The super prize was raffled off during the 1204th Russian Lotto draw.

Natalya shared with the organizers of the lottery the story of how she managed to become the owner of half a billion rubles. The woman is a regular participant in the lotteries - close people gave her tickets on holidays for several years, but before they managed to win only small amounts.

For a whole week after the record draw, Natalya did not check the ticket and even thought about throwing it away. The pensioner gave it to her daughter, and both women had a shock when they found out the result - they had to double-check the information several times and call the organizers to make sure that there was no mistake. Also in an interview, Natalia admitted that she would spend the money she received on buying a home, traveling and helping her family.

Nikolai (Novosibirsk)

Nikolai is a doctor from Novosibirsk. On February 27, 2016, he won a record amount for Russia at that time in 358 358 566 rubles in Gosloto 6 out of 45. The ticket cost the winner 1,800 rubles, as he bet on several combinations at once.

Nikolay found out about the big win from the news, but at first he did not think that he was the hero of the stories. The man checked the ticket only a few days later. It took Nikolai three more weeks to come for the prize from Novosibirsk to Moscow.

The man spent two years buying lottery tickets to get a super prize. According to Nikolai, he used a secret formula - each crossed out number has a specific meaning. At the same time, the Novosibirsk doctor did not disclose the essence of the formula.

Nikolai planned to spend his big win on buying a house in Moscow and developing his own business related to a healthy lifestyle. The main question to which the winner himself would like to find an answer: is the large amount he got a reward or a test?

Advice: if you do not want to spend money on a ticket, take part in.

Yuri (Nizhny Novgorod)

52-year-old Yuri from Nizhny Novgorod won 267 506 103 rubles in Gosloto 6 out of 45 in February 2018. The man regularly took part in the drawings until he became the owner of a large super prize.

Yuri is sure that the main thing in the lottery is to find an effective method. It took him 6 months to do this. All this time, a resident of Nizhny Novgorod was buying tickets and analyzing combinations. As a result, Yuri settled on the following method:

1. Write on separate pieces of paper all the numbers that can fall in the lottery.
2. Put them in a bag.
3. Get sheets of numbers at random before filling out a ticket.

Yuri relied on luck, choosing combinations blindly, and his strategy brought him the biggest win in his life. Moreover, 2 months before receiving the jackpot, the man won another 25 thousand rubles in Gosloto. Yuri decided to share the super prize with his children and grandchildren, and also to secure a comfortable old age.

Alexander (Barnaul)

Alexander worked as a truck driver, and in April 2018 he became a multimillionaire. A resident of Barnaul was lucky - 232 473 870 rubles. The circulation was carried out by the Gosloto 4 out of 20 lottery.

In an interview with the organizers, Alexander said that he had been buying tickets on an ongoing basis for a year and a half. The one that brought the man a super prize cost 2,500 rubles. Alexander did not expect to become a rich man with the help of the lottery and for a long time could not believe in his luck. The man was going to spend the big winnings on buying a new apartment in his native Barnaul, back treatment and a trip to Venice. Alexander also promised to donate part of the money to charity.

Igor (Tver region)

Igor from the Tver region won 209 million rubles playing Russian Lotto. The super prize was drawn on May 13, 2018. The owner of one of the largest lottery winnings was sure that this was a joke when the host of Russian Lotto called him.

The 44-year-old engineer has been buying tickets for 6 months. Each draw, Igor changed the combinations so that the numbers did not repeat. He often won before, but the amounts did not exceed 200 rubles. Being an engineer, Igor tried to analyze the pattern of falling out of different numbers and at first relied on the theory of probability. However, over time, the man realized that knowledge would not help him, and decided to rely on luck and faith. The first purchase from the money won was a fur coat for his wife. A resident of the Tver region planned to spend the jackpot on the purchase of an apartment and a summer house.

Valery (Omsk)

Valery worked in a construction company and dreamed of getting rich. On February 10, 2014, he became the owner of one of the biggest lottery winnings in Russia. A resident of Omsk got the Gosloto 6 out of 45 jackpot in the amount of 184 513 512 rubles.

Valery was in such shock that for three days he did not leave his house and for another 3 weeks he could not come to the Moscow office of the lottery for money. The man admitted that he is a regular participant in the drawings - he spends 500-800 rubles on one circulation. According to Valery, he needs a big win to move from Siberia to a city with a warm climate.