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Montana Lottery Winner Keeps On Truckin’

I’d like to show everyone that lotteries   bestow not just money… but pretty cool other prizes on winners. Take, for example, Montana, which recently gave away a truck. The first winner in the BIG Montana Truck Raffle Game, a Scratch game by the Montana Lottery, has come forward. Tom Schmidt of Missoula claimed a 2009 [...]

Unemployed Northern Ireland Man Wins $7.7 Million (in U.S. dollars)

Meet  Seamus Duffy, of Greysteel, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who won £4,593,096 ($7,706,755 in U.S. dollars) in August. When Seamus Duffy won the UK National Lottery he was unemployed; he couldn’t work because arthritis in the back of his neck forced him to leave his job. That, coupled with six children forced him to cut [...]

Mega Millions Jackpot Rolls to $170 Million; Euro Millions to 43 Million Euros ($67 Million, U.S.)

Jackpots are skyrocketing all over the world. In the U.S., the 12-state Mega Millions game jackpot is nearing the $200 million mark. There was no big winner in the Oct. 9 draw, so the jackpot rises to $170 million on Oct. 13 (lucky 13 for someone?) The Oct. 9 winning numbers are 3,14,21,24,51 and Mega [...]

Engineering a $1 Million Colorado Lottery Win

Ball Aerospace might be the luckiest company in Colorado.  Nine Ball employees won $1 million in Saturday’s Powerball drawing – the second group of Ball workers to win a major prize on Powerball this year. Jeff Davis, an aerospace technician at the company, represented the latest batch of Ball winners, claiming the group’s prize in [...]

The Rise of Rome; Georgia Lottery Player Cashes in $400,000 in Fast Cash

Rome is burning …. up with fast cash. About $400,000, in fact. The game was called Fast Play and Lisa Churchwell Chastain, of Rome, Ga., instantly won the top prize a few days ago. Chastain scratched her ticket in the story, The Rome Food Market, in Rome, she said. “I was very excited,” she said. [...]

Bowling for Dollars; Florida Bestows $55,000 on Bowling Alley that Sold $22 Million Winning Ticket

I’m always writing about winners, but in every state, the retailer that sells a jackpot winning ticket is rewarded in some way. In some jurisdictions, it’s a flat fee. Well, here’s kind of a cool story that just happened in Florida. Miron Popescu, 72, of Fort Myers, Fla (one of my favorite west coast haunts [...]

One Florida Ticket-Holder Wins $193 Million Powerball Jackpot

Someone in the Sunshine State has about 193 million reasons to smile this morning. Whether it is an individual or a pool of players, we don’t know yet, but some ticket holder in Florida is $193 million richer today. Talk about good karma. The winning numbers are 12,24,48,50,57 and Powerball 22. 3 tickets matched 5 [...]

Jackpots Exploding All Over the World: Powerball at $193 Million, Mega Millions at $122 Million, and Euro Millions at 28 Million Euros ($46 Million, U.S.)

Lottery jackpots are rising all over the world, in the States, in Europe. So there are going to be some very grateful (and lucky) players very soon, I predict. There were no big winners in the Oct. 2 Mega Millions game so the jackpot rolls to $122 million on Oct. 6. The winning numbers on [...]

Georgia Lottery Player Goes Fishin’ For Bass, Pulls in $250,000 in Cash Instead

A Cartersville, Georgia  man is on a whirlwind of a ride since winning a quarter-million dollar lottery win. Henry Wilson, 55, won $250,000 playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Bass Pro Shops $250,000 Cash Adventure. Thanks to his 22-year-old daughter, Wilson decided to stop at a convenience store  in Cartersville, when she announced that she [...]

Powerball Jackpot Nearing $200 Million Mark; Mega Millions Tops $100 Million

Both multi state jackpots are hitting the stratosphere this weekend. The Powerball jackpot on Oct. 3 is worth $193 million.  Six tickets nationwide hit 5 of 6 numbers, only missing the Powerball. Those tickets are each worth $200,000, except for one ticket in Oregon. That ticket buyer Power Played their bet and won $1 million. [...]

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