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The average Brit blows a whopping £416 every year on lotteries and scratch cards.

But a staggering 52% of people have never won a penny on them.

The odds of winning the jackpot in a lottery is one in 116,531,800, according to research by Casinoroom.com.

It adds millions of gamblers in the UK buy simple scratch cards and lottery tickets in the desperate hope to win big rather than to have fun, and most are left upset and heavily out of pocket.

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But the study comes after a soldier from Crewe, Cheshire, became an overnight multi-millionaire by winning more than £13.2million on a 25p stake.

Jon Heywood, 26, scooped the jackpot online and said he intended to buy "the best possible medical treatment" for his dad who is waiting for a heart and lung transplant.

Mr Heywood won big on Betway's Mega Moolah game, an online slot machine game.

The largest sum one person won on a single scratch card in the UK was £4million.

Ross Hearst claimed the gigantic sum at the start of the year.

The 36-year-old road worker, from Lurgan, Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, was delighted to receive the cheque as his partner was soon expecting their first baby.