But these days the biggest lottery in the world is the one run by Britain.

"Illegal numbers operations in many of the states with big lotteries are almost gone now."

The obvious route to playing this big lottery is buying stock.

Imagine the worlds biggest lottery where every one of those 6 Billion people was required to draw a ticket.

There could be no big national lottery until the Government established one, however.

There's a big national lottery now and many of the profits are put back into sports, so our Olympic sailors were able to train full time.

El Gordo is the world's biggest lottery with tens of thousands of people winning something.

The first big lottery on German soil was held in 1614 in Hamburg.

California, which adopted a lottery in 1985, has the biggest lottery.

Who will win in the big lottery of life?