Lottery Moments

The numbers drawn for the Jan. 3 Powerball game, which carries a $90 million jackpot, are 17,22,24,38,55 and the Power ball is 24. The Power Play multiplier is 3.
Watch this space for news about whether there was a jackpot winner.
Big changes in store for Powerball, starting with the Wednesday draw. We’ll fill you in.
Florida joins [...]

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If you believe in the power of probability, the idea that eventually, over time, the numbers drawn in a Powerball game will even out, then you likely find the strategy of playing hot and cold numbers, at least intriguing.
I know I do.
I play a combination of cold numbers and lucky numbers.
Keeping in mind that I [...]

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There was no jackpot winner in the Jan. 2 Euro MIllions draw so the jackpot rises to 53 million Euros next Friday. That’s a cool $73.4 million, in U.S. dollars.
The winning numbers were 29,30,36,37,48 and the Lucky Stars were 1 and 6.
Five tickets matched the first five numbers and one lucky star. Those tickets each [...]

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Rubben Jones, 60, a relief operator at Bridgestone Firestone, likes the Iowa $100,000 Cash Game (a pick 5 of 35 lotto game) so much that he often doesn’t check his ticket nightly.
So he didn’t know he had won big on Dec. 22 until he stopped by the store where he buys his usual set [...]

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It’s my dream (I play Powerball) to be watching the draw where I win the jackpot. I believe it will happen because I believe in the power of positive thinking.
So does Lester Gordon, a truck driver who lives in Virginia.
Gordon of Glen Allen was watching the Mega Millions drawing on Dec. 12 when he saw [...]

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There were no jackpot winners in the Dec. 27 Powerball draw, so the jackpot will now be $80 million on Wednesday, New Year’s Eve.
The winning numbers were 12,15,26,31,43 and the Power ball was 10. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
Six tickets matched the first five numbers, but not the Power ball, and each ticket won [...]

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A lottery win has come in handy for one Marietta, Georgia, handyman with a Buy One, Get One Free Fantasy 5 ticket. Roy Hixon, 49, won a $203,300 top prize from matching all five winning numbers in a late November drawing.
Now, he and his wife, Cheri, are celebrating. Winning numbers from the drawing were [...]

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There were no jackpot winners on Wednesday, Christmas eve, but at least two people picked the first five numbers for $200,000 wins.
Here are the details.
The jackpot rises to $70 million this Saturday night.
The winning numbers were 2,17,22,32,41 and the Power ball was 8. The Power Play multiplier was 5.
Two tickets, one bought in Maine, the [...]

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This is a tale worth telling.
I’ve written two books on the lottery (one is due out this coming January) and one of the things I stress is how when you are part of a pool you MUST outline exactly who is in the pool. Put it on paper. Yeah, I know that lottery pools are [...]

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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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