Luck of the draw: what's the best or worst prize you've won in a raffle?

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Your living-room wall is bare and you decide you need a picture to cheer it up. Instead of buying an Athena Man and Baby or Che Guevara from a poster shop, you purchase a rather pricey raffle ticket for €100 (£83), in which the only prize is a drawing by an artist you may have heard of – Pablo Picasso. And then, against the odds – 50,000 tickets had been issued to raise money for charity – you win.

This is exactly what happened to 25-year-old Jeffrey Gonano, who works at a fire sprinkler firm in Pennsylvania in the US. As of Wednesday, he was the proud owner of the cubist work L'Homme au Gibus (Man with Opera Hat), which is said to be worth $1m (£610,000). Gonano has vowed not to sell his Picasso for the time being, but sadly feels it is too expensive to put up in his house.

Have you ever got lucky in a raffle? If so, what is the best thing you have won, and did you keep it or give it away? And what is the worst raffle prize you've won?

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