Lottery Moments

Thanks to the Dayton, Ohio News for much of the information in this story.
They are reporting that the winner of the $207 Mega MIllions jackpot is, apparently, a pool of players from the city streets department in Piqua, Ohio, a small city near Dayton.
“When the time’s right, we’ll come forward,” a Piqua man  who is [...]

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There was no jackpot in last night’s draw, so Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot rolls over to $57 million. The winning numbers were 7,11,18,24,39 and the Power ball was 26.
13 tickets matched the first five numbers. Some of the 13 Power Played their bets, meaning they won $800,000 instead of $200,000, since the Power Play multiplier [...]

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We should all be so lucky as Missouri resident Shirley Kowaleski, to whom winning the Missouri Lottery has become second nature.
Kowalewski, a bio chemistry lab technician at the University of Missouri in Columbia, explained that her recent win was due to a profitable inconvenience.
According to Kowalewski, who discovered she was $10,000 richer after purchasing a [...]

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How long would you wait to claim a $126 million lottery? A day? A month? Six months?
A word of advice: every state has a time limit after which if unclaimed, a jackpot goes into the state’s general fund (or some other targetted beneficiary).
If it were me, I’d claim my money the next possible second I [...]

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You’ve seen him numerous times on the big screen, although you probably don’t know his name.
Well, if you live in England, now you probably do because the most magical thing that could ever happen (short of a sheer miracle — not that winning a lottery isn’t a small miracle) did, to stuntman who has [...]

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I’m always hearing about how winning a lottery jackpot…a big jackpot…is a life changing event. And I’ve talked to enough million dollar winners to know that it’s true.
Not all those life changes are good. We’ll do a story later this week about someone who went through their million dollar win in short time and is [...]

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Friends:
Tonight could be your lucky night. The night you and your family and your future generations could be taken care of permanently.
Mega Millions has risen to $170 million. We’re approaching Top 10 jackpots offered in that game, all time. See below:
1. $390 million, March 6, 2007, winning tickets sold in Georgia and New Jersey
2. $363 [...]

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A few days ago, I listed the Mega Millions hot and cold numbers. I was then asked by Powerball players to do the same for them.
Ask, and you shall receive.
As you know, there is a theory, which some ascribe to, that some numbers can be hot…show up a lot. Other players look for numbers that [...]

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Normally, this space is about winners and winners stories, but the Mega MIllions jackpot is rising to the  level where people are literally crossing state borders to play. There is that much interest in the game.
With that in mind, come Friday, I’ll try to go over some hot and cold numbers, again… and let’s see [...]

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Congratulations to a York, Pennsylvania couple for winning the Oct. 29 Powerball jackpot worth $30.2 million.
Myrna and Thomas Shearer had the single-winning jackpot ticket that matched all five white balls, 20-30-37-50-52, and the red Powerball, 33, to win the jackpot, which grew over seven drawings to an annuity value of $58.6 million.
Wisely, the couple [...]

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