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Maryland Lottery Player is Two-Timer; Wins $50,000 Six Months After Winning $30,000

Twice is nice, they say. I usually don’t write about people without naming them (if you win be PROUD), but I do love stories about multiple winners. A very lucky Pocomoke City, Maryland  man hit two Maryland Lottery scratch game tickets twice in less than six months. I don’t know what he’s doing right, but [...]

$1 Million Instant Ticket Winner is “Rich”

Caroline Rich, from Marietta, Georgia, is rich in more ways than just her name. A real estate recruiter, she recently won $1 million playing a game called “World Class Millions.” One recent day, she was feeling lucky, so she asked her son-in-law to run to the store and purchase a ticket. Old Mountain Park CITGO,  [...]

Georgia Contractor Hits $12 Million Mega Millions Jackpot

Four days after two players shared a $33 million jackpot, a Georgia contractor, Wayne Reese, hit a $12 million Mega Millions jackpot. He discovered the win while checking the lottery’s web site. ”I said, ‘Whew’ like wrestler Ric Flair,” he said with excitement. “I shouted out to my family, ‘Y’all won¹t believe what¹s right here!’” [...]

Lottery Winner Rubs “Aladdin’s Lamp,” Wins $40,000

This lottery winner is one happy camper. A Rome, Georgia resident’s wish came true with the scratch of “Aladdin’s Lamp” a scratch game. Larry Ball, 49, played and won $40,000. Ball was in the retail store with his wife, Jackie, when he scratched his lucky ticket. “I was excited,” he said. “She was just totally [...]

Fantastic Five: Georgia Lottery Player Hits For $1,298,332

Who says you can’t get something for nothing? Remember the rock group Dire Straits and their song…”Money for Nothing”? In Georgia, a player’s free Fantasy 5 ticket has translated into a $1.3 million jackpot win for a Hoschton, Georgia man. Robert Patterson Jr. won the prize with a free ticket that matched all five winning [...]

When $5 Equals $250,000: Florida Lottery Winner Makes That Claim

Photo of April Lopez courtesy of Florida Lottery When does a $5 bet result in a $250,000 win? Not too often. But it did in Florida, recently, when April Lopez, 36, of Ruskin, scratched, won and claimed the top prize of the “$250,000 SPIN” Scratch-Off game. Lopez said she hasn’t been able to sleep for [...]

May Day: Georgia Mechanic is $250,000 Lottery Winner

To those who emailed me over the weekend, I missed my Sunday blog due to illness. No, it wasn’t the fact that I did not win the Powerball game. I was just sick. But I’ll tell you one guy who isn’t sick today. A Warthen auto mechanic named Jimmy May, 49, who won a $250,000 [...]

$1 Million Dollar Georgia Lottery Winner is a Systems Analyst

I don’t believe in lottery systems that work (they are fun to play, though), and neither, I suspect, does a real professional systems analyst from Powder Springs, Ga., who just won $1 million on June 30, in the state’s rather unique game, Weekly WinFall drawing. Charley Jones bought his ticket in Lithia Springs, Ga. at [...]

Three Florida Millionaire Raffle Winners Come Forward

I’ve been telling you all along that Sweepstakes games, whether second chance or first draw, carry some of the best odds in the lottery business. Pay particular attention to second chance drawings where lotteries require that you send in your non-winning tickets. And think about how many people will do that. It’s a different story [...]

Retired Fireman Feels the Heat of a $10,000 Connecticut Lottery Win

I met Willie Baldwin about a month ago, shortly after he had won $10,000 playing Connecticut’s enormously popular Lucky-4-Life lottery game. Baldwin, a retired fire marshall, is a very precise, cautious man. That is part of the job description; at least for all the good fire marshalls I know. So when he discovered that he’d [...]

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