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California Dreaming: Someone on the Left Coast Has Won the $133 Million Mega Millions Jackpot; Powerball Jackpot Up to $170 Million

Someone in California had a very good Mar. 5. One winning $133 million Mega Millions ticket was sold in the state.
So the jackpot resets at $12 million on Mar. 9.
Meanwhile, Powerball blasts up to $170 million on Mar. 10.
Good luck everyone.
Watch for my top 20 list later at this site.

America’s Two Multi-State Games Top $133 Million Each; Which One Will You Play?

Me, I’m playing both.
How does anyone know when dame fortune will smile down on us?
Here’s the dea:
The March 5 Mega Millions jackpot is $133 million.
The March 6 Powerball jackpot is $139 million.
Which one will you play?
Which one will you win?
I wonder if anyone has every won both jackpots?
[See my book to right...answer: not to my [...]

Cleaning Up: British Lottery Winners Reward Housekeeper, Give Her a New Car

Talk about generous. British lottery winners, Nigel Page, 43, and his partner Justine Laycock, 41 have rewarded a hard-working clearr with a $687,500 house and car, after her employers became the U.K.’s biggest lottery winners.

A hard-working cleaner has been rewarded with a £400,000 ($687,500) house and car after her employers became Britain’s biggest [...]

$100 Million in Play in Both Mega Millions and Powerball Games

Big jackpots are in play for both of the U.S.A.’s multi-state games…Mega Millions, now at $112 million and Powerball, at about $95 million on Feb. 27.
There was no jackpot winner in the Mega Millions Feb. 26 game, so the rollover brought that jackpot above the $100,000,000 mark for the upcoming Mar. 2 game.
Good luck to [...]

A Con to Watch Out For. Case Study in New York: Con Man is Conned by Cops; Caught After Forging $30,000 in Lottery Ticket Scam.

Here’s a scam you should watch for.
It happened last year and the con man was sentenced in December.
Queens, New York District Attorney Richard A. Brown and New York Lottery Director Gordon Medenica nabbed  a Far Rockaway man who defrauded several individuals around the state out of large sums of money by creating [...]

$9.7 Million Prize Won by Connecticut Player; And a Very Happy New Year We’re Sure She is Having

For the past 23 years, Marilyn Citron of Mystic has played the same set of numbers in Connecticut’s Lotto game.
On New Years Day, it paid off. And she won $9.7 million..
As a long-time player, Citron generally checks the Friday winning Lottery numbers on Saturday morning, but due to the [...]

British Couple Hit for $88 Million Euro Millions Prize (Spanish Winner Also Hits, Wins Same Amount)

How would you react if your father and mother just won $88 million dollars playing EuroMillions?
“Whatever” was the reply.
Indeed.
When Nigel Page discovered he had won £56 million ($88 million in USD) on the lottery he couldn’t say a word while his stunned partner Justine Laycock, said: “Oh my God”.
But her 15-year-old daughter Georgia’s [...]

How to Lose a $15.2 Million Dollars Lottery Jackpot in 8 Years and 5 Easy Lessons

Thanks again to Philadelphia News columnist Howard Gensler for bringing this story to my attention, and now yours.
It’s the lamentable story of Lotto winner Michael Carroll, back on the “dole” in the U.K., after spending his  £9.7 million ($15.2 million, in U.S. dollars) in eight years.
How he did it is the stuff of which lotto [...]

Euro Millions’ Jackpot Soars to 129 Million Euros (About $176 Million in USD); One Powerball Winner ($140 Million) in North Carolina

Go ‘heels.
The Tarheel state has produced a big Powerball jackpot winner of the Feb. 6 game, worth $140 million.
We’ll let you know who won when he, she, they, step forward.
So the next Powerball jackpot, on Feb. 10, is worth $20 million.
The Mega Millions jackpot on Feb. 9 is up to $32 million.
And now the big [...]

Largest Prize in Texas Lottery History (Mega Millions Jackpot of $144 Million) Goes to Katy, Tx. Resident

The winner has finally come forward.
The winner of the Jan. 29 Mega Millions game worth $144 million…the largest winning lottery Texas Lottery history is Katy resident William R Kiefer.
Guess what? He wants no part of fame or fortune.
Call him humble? Or perhaps naive, but I like this guy’s attitude. He said he only has [...]

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