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Lottery Jackpots Around the World: Top 10

OK, I’ve had tons of people asking me to do a Top 10 list on a weekly basis, so how about this? Every Monday morning (U.S. time, east coast), I’ll put out a top 10, including the date of the next draw. You speak, I listen. Now all I am asking is that you win [...]

Driving Away With a Win: 12 British Bus Drivers Win Euro Millions

A friend who lives in London sent me news about a lottery pool, or syndicate, that won the EuroMillions jackpot last 16 March. What’s really cool is that the winners are 12 bus drivers from Corby in Northamptonshire. The syndicate is led by Chris Smith and has been buying tickets as a collective for three [...]

Good Friday? You Betcha, Says $100,000 Winner

    Amazing: Every night Lois Decker and her husband Gerald meet in front of their television set to watch a game show and then look for the results of the Lottery drawings. On Good Friday, Decker finally saw what she had been looking for:  the five numbers of the Fantasy 5 drawing matched the [...]

Twice is Nice; Pool Wins $1 Million; Six Years Ago, Same Pool Won $3.2 Million. Now That’s a Pool I’d Like to Join…

A group of co-workers employed by the Stanadyne Corporation in Windsor, Connecticut,  recently won the lottery for the second time in nearly six years. Twice is nice, eh? Twenty employees, who hail from the company’s “Prototype” division, won a $1,000,000 prize on a Powerball “Quick Pick” ticket for matching the first five numbers drawn on [...]

Two Winning Tickets Hit for $1 Million … Tickets Were Purchased in Same Store, for the Same Powerball Game

Ok. Hope you all had a great holiday weekend. This blog is almost always about winners. But every once in a while… something very miraculous happens and I like to tell you about it. Like this past Powerball drawing, April 7. Virginia had not one, but two $1 million-winning tickets in Saturday’s Powerball drawing – [...]

Happy Easter, Everyone

To the thousands of you who read this page religiously (that’s not an intended pun), I offer you a gracious and a most sincere Happy Easter. And a Happy Hanukkah for those of the Jewish faith. I have been accused of writing some stories about winners that are sarcastic and mean spirited. That has never [...]

Does She or Doesn’t She? Maryland Woman Claims to Have One of the Three Mega Millions Tickets (Worth More than $200 Million). Now Says She has “Misplaced” it. Hmmmm

I knew something like this was bound to happen. From a report in the New York Post, a Maryland woman who works at a Baltimore-area McDonald’s said she has one of three winning Mega Millions lottery tickets after the big $640 million Mar. 30 drawing. According to the Post, Mirlande Wilson, 37, bought the winning [...]

North Carolina Player Takes it to the “Max,” Scratches $1 Million Top Prize

Perry Greene, a resident of Lawndale in Cleveland County, North Carolina, plans to pay bills with the $1 million prize he scratched off on his Maximum Green ticket. Geez, I hope he does more than “just” pay bills with his million. But I digress… “I felt like my blood pressure went directly to my feet,” [...]

Not an April Fool’s Day Joke: Hey, You Just Won $250,000

Maryland Lottery player Ronald Ruse went to sleep last week (the night of the $656 million Mega Millions draw) without realizing how different his life would be when he woke up the next morning. Earlier that day, he purchased $50 worth of tickets for the record-breaking Mega Millions drawing during his lunch break from work. [...]

Minnesota Family is “Hot” Winner of $2.9 Million

Three members of a North Mankato, Minnesota, family have stepped forward to claim the $2.99 million Hot Lotto jackpot from the March 14, 2012 drawing. Thomas H. Browne, his son Lee Browne and his daughter Elaine Pleiss are the winners. Thomas said he heard an announcement on the radio that the winning Hot Lotto jackpot ticket [...]

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