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Mega Millions’ Jackpot Skyrockets to $266 Million; and the Top five Jackpots Around the World

No one won the $224 million Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, April 30, so the jackpot skyrockets to $266 million, by far the largest jackpot in the world at the moment. Here is your top 5: 1. $266 million, Mega Millions, next draw, May 4 2. 77 million euros (about $102 million U.S. dollars), Euro [...]

Euro Millions Winners of $89 Million (in U.S. Dollars) Tell Their Story

From our blogger pen pal, Tim Reynoldo, who lives in London… I took the liberty of taking Tim’s comments and translating them a bit so that American readers would understand. Apologies to my many U.K. readers. Anyway, says Tim, a Gloucestershire, UK couple are celebrating after shooting straight into first place in the National Lottery Rich [...]

Ouch! British Lottery Winner Throws Away $153,000 Winning Ticket (And Loses Wife Too)

This, from our British correspondent, Nigel Owens, who lives in London and loves to play the UK Lottery and Euro Millions. He writes: A British postal worker said his marriage ended and he has become a laughing stock at work because he threw away a $153,000 scratch-off lottery ticket. Cemal Celikkanat, 38, a driver for [...]

Jackpots Rising Around the World: Powerball Tops at $175 Million

No one won the April 10 Powerball jackpot (no wonder, did you see those numbers: 21,22,49,52,58 and PB 34), so the big prize rolls to $175 million. Here are the top five jackpots around the world: 1. $175 million, Powerball, next drawing April 14 2. $105 million, Mega Millions, April 13 3. $77 million, Lotto [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Confucius Lottery Ticket, Pissing Some People Off in China

Many of you don’t know that there is a lively lottery business in China, but it’s true and here is some of the evidence. From an item in the China Daily, one of the country’s leading English language media outlets, I hear the story of…get this, a Confucius lottery ticket. He must be turning over [...]

George Clooney Plays Italian Lottery, Hoping to Add to Monies for Haiti’s Victims

My thanks to Howard Gensler, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, for sending me this short item. It seems that actor George Clooney wants to win the lottery for Haiti. The 48 year-old actor and his gal pal, Elisabetta Canalis, were seen in an official Italian superenalotto game shop, where they supposedly splashed out [...]

A Ticket to Ride? 76 Year-Old British Cabbie Drives Away with 26 Million ($37 Million in U.S. Dollars) Euro Millions Prize

He insists he won’t give up his day job. That’s right. England’s latest Euro Millions lottery millionaire is a taxi driver named George Sturt, 76, of Dorking in Surrey and he told the British press that despite his Euro Millions win of 26 million euros (about $37 million in USD), he won’t give up his [...]

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