So you know now that the lottery has been around forever. I bet there are some other things that you didn’t know about the lottery.
Lottery and Corruption
Ever wondered why the lottery has had such a bad rap? Well I don’t know all the specifics but based on what I have read, by the end of [...]
An ordinary postal worker in Scotland has just suddenly surpassed the wealth of some of the most well known names around the world, including Princes William and Harry. Angela Kelly, a former postal worker in East Kilbride bought a Euro Millions lottery ticket for 1.50 a week before at Sainsburys. She found out she was [...]
This is it, the dream that countless people have always had. You just won the lottery big time! So what are you supposed to do next? You have heard of all those horror stories about lottery winners. There are countless variations, lost lottery tickets, winnings lost due to taxes and improper handling of the money, [...]
The Illinois Lottery recently held a summer promo called Million Dollar Summer Raffle wherein only limited tickets were sold. Each of the 500,000 tickets were sold for $20. It was on the evening of Tuesday last week that the drawing was held, making four new millionaires in an instant. Five people became $100,000 richer while [...]
Alright, I know some of you may not agree with me regarding my last post but I just couldn’t help it, here’s another installment on radical things you can do with a lottery ticket.
Why not pool together a group of parents from your kid’s school and form a lottery syndicate with them? If you already [...]
Let’s deviate from the numbers and all that math that people tend to focus on when talking about the lottery. For you avid lottery enthusiasts out there, have you ever thought of revolutionary ways you could put a lottery ticket to use? This post may strike others as funny, others useless. It is up to [...]
We’ve all heard stories about how lottery winners become one day millionaires and in the end become worse off than they actually started. Yet many of those stories are nothing but urban legends. Here’s one man’s real story, David Lee Edwards, an ex-con who won in the 2001 Powerball.
According to a feature done on him [...]
The UK National Lottery is the largest operating lottery in the country today. It is also one of the most popular, if not the most popular lotteries in existence – at least in this part of the world. It was launched in 1994 and has since then become one of the most favorite pastimes of [...]
It has been said that the North German Lottery is one of the world’s oldest lottery with the highest winning odds. Lucky for you then if you are German and play this lottery (more on this later). This lottery is also known as NKL (Nordwestdeutsche Klassenlotterie). So how old is this lottery? It can trace [...]
Here is another scam that has victimised countless unwary people. Let’s call them direct mailings. Instead of utilising the Internet and e-mail, these con artists make use of the more traditional postal mail, probably in the hopes that this method would seem more real. So what happens?
First you receive an interesting bit of mail through [...]
