Most young people are often more concerned with other things than playing the lottery, which is probably why you don't see that many winners aged 25 and below. That doesn't mean they don't exist though! In fact, many young people have won big and are now living lives many of us could have only dreamed of at their age.

If you've been putting off tidying up the house, let this serve as an incentive. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg, a couple from Mandeville, Louisiana, were cleaning up for Thanksgiving guests when they found a lottery ticket they'd purchased months earlier.