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Top 5 Jackpots Now in Play, Worldwide

You guys (and women) have been asking me to run a weekly top jackpot list, so here goes.

These are the top 5 jackpots currently in play, worldwide.

1. $68 million, Mega Millions, next draw, Feb. 19

2. $57 million, Powerball, Feb. 20

3. Lotto Texas, $49 million, Feb. 20

4. Canada’s Loto Max, $42 million in Canadian dollars ($40 USD), Feb. 19

5. Euro Millions, 15 million euros ($20.4 million, USD), Feb. 19

Good luck everyone.

Now Hold On a Minute: South African Newspaper Story About Winner is Erroneous; He Didn’t Win (What a Bummer)

I ran across this story when a relative (my wife is South African) sent me this…which is essentially a Reuter’s News report.

A deaf South African cleaner besieged by begging relatives after a newspaper reported he had scooped a 91 million rand (US$12 million) lottery jackpot was not the winner, the draw’s organizers said.

National Lottery spokeswoman Thembi Tulwana said the real winner of Friday’s South Africa PowerBall draw was an unnamed 43-year-old woman, and not 52-year-old Stanley Philander, a Cape Town hardware store cleaner reported to have carried off the record rollover prize.

Tulwana said Philander had bought — after the draw — a lottery ticket with the same numbers as the winning ticket, but could not explain how the mix-up had escalated into the family being moved to a secret location for their own protection.

“We are as confused as everybody else. It did not come from the National Lottery at all,” Tulwana said. “Those numbers have nothing to do with the previous draw.”

The Star newspaper said Philander, his wife of 12 years, Diana, who is also deaf, and their two children had been moved from their home in a poor Cape Town neighborhood to an undisclosed location after talk of their win spread.

Only trouble is, they didn’t win.

Philander’s sister-in-law said the family was besieged by relatives asking for a share of the winnings, and implied National Lottery officials were involved in their disappearance — something Tulwana denied.

“We don’t even know where he was. All we know is that one newspaper did indicate that they have him in a safe place,” she said.

South Africa’s lottery launched in October last year, and produced four multi-millionaires in its first month. Friday’s record prize money was the result of 22 previous “roll-over” draws.

$9.7 Million Prize Won by Connecticut Player; And a Very Happy New Year We’re Sure She is Having

For the past 23 years, Marilyn Citron of Mystic has played the same set of numbers in Connecticut’s Lotto game.

On New Years Day, it paid off. And she won $9.7 million..

As a long-time player, Citron generally checks the Friday winning Lottery numbers on Saturday morning, but due to the busy holiday and a driveway that needed to be shoveled, she didn’t have a chance to check until late Saturday afternoon. Thinking there must be a typo, Citron logged on to the CT Lottery’s website, which confirmed that she was indeed the only winner of the Classic Lotto Jackpot.

But she was. And won a cash lump sum payment of $5,830,667 (pre-taxes).

Citron, who works as a communications and business manager for a major Southeastern Connecticut pharmaceutical company, had been planning on taking on a part-time job after her retirement in March.

While she will continue to stay on at her job until her retirement date, her Lottery winnings will allow her to forgo the need for a part-time job search after retiring, and will allow her to devote time to volunteer work with a focus on helping animals, which are her passion.

“I live a fairly modest life, this will allow me to do more traveling and share this abundance with family and friends, because in the end, it’s only money,” Citron said. “While I don’t see my life changing that much, this will make it easier.”

We hope that is true. We hope her life is only changed for the better.

Our advice: get good financial advisers. And have a good life.

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 daughter Georgia’s reaction was like that of a typical teenager.

“She just said, ‘Whatever’..she was a typical teenager about it,” said Ms. Laycock after the couple discovered they were Britain’s biggest winners, the British newspaper, Daily Mail reported this week.

The couple, who would make around £47,000 a week in interest if they banked all their jackpot, said they were confident that the massive win will not spoil their children.

“We’re so proud of them — they are very level-headed.

“They are more calm about it than we are. They’ve joked about getting a tarantula and getting a little Shetland pony so her feet can run on the ground by the side while she’s riding it but that’s it. So all they want so far is a spider and a pony,” Ms. Laycock was quoted as saying.

Ms. Laycock said, “I knew something was up as Nigel never wakes me up on a Saturday morning and he looked so worried. All he said was, ‘I need you urgently — I need to show you something’

“I thought something awful had happened but he took me to the computer and there it was on the screen. His hands were shaking so much he couldn’t pick up the phone, so I called the lottery line and they confirmed it was true — we were the £56 million winners. Then we went into the front room and just stood there laughing.”

I’d laugh too.

Wouldn’t you?

And maybe cry a little bit.

Congratulations guys. Nicely done. Spot on.

$141.3 Million Powerball Winner Steps Forward

Just days before Valentine’s Day, an Asheville man and his wife of 46 years got a sweet surprise – to the tune of $141.4 million. Frank Griffin of Asheville, a retired firefighter with over 20 years of service, won the Powerball jackpot after his ticket matched all five white balls and the Powerball in the Saturday, Feb. 6 drawing.

Griffin and his wife Loretta made the trip to lottery headquarters in Raleigh today to claim their priz. At a news conference, Griffin told reporters that he “felt fantastic” and that the prize money will allow him to “play more golf.” He also said he plans to spend more time with his family and possibly take a trip to Hawaii.

The Asheville retiree told reporters that after buying gas at the Wilco on Smokey Park Highway in Asheville, he had $5 left over and decided to purchase some lottery tickets. He let the computer pick his numbers. Griffin is the third Powerball jackpot winner from North Carolina since the game was introduced in May 2006. He elected to take the lump sum payment which is approximately $69 million (approximately $47 million after federal and state withholdings).

How to Lose a $15.2 Million Dollars Lottery Jackpot in 8 Years and 5 Easy Lessons

He won the millions and now…he’s back where he started. On the street.

The 26-year-old former garbage man last week revealed to British newspapers that he has squandered his multi-million fortune on drugs, gambling and thousands of prostitutes.

Prostitutes? Well, I guess he (and they) thought it was worth it.

Now, he says, he is just as happy getting £42 a week in jobseeker’s allowance.

He told newspaper reporters: ‘The party has ended and it’s back to reality. I haven’t got two pennies to rub together and that’s the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million.

I think the man is a bit daft, but that’s me.

‘I’ve lived the high life but I want my job back and to earn a normal wage. I’ll do anything to earn a pound or two now.’

Carroll’s jackpot win in 2002 disappeared with astonishing speed.

By the end of 2003, he said, he was smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day and hosting drug and drink fuelled parties at his £325,000 home.

Angry at his life of excess, his wife Sandra left him and took their baby daughter Brooke with her.

Rather than see the decision as a wake-up call, Carroll continued on his life of excess, turning to prostitutes.

He boasted about sleeping with four a day – a total of 2,000 at a cost of £100,000 over eight years – in order to sate his sexual appetite.

Describing how he descended into a world of drugs and paying for sex, he told the News of the World newspaper: ‘I only started to think about three things – drugs, sex and gold.’

He said he had no regrets about his lost fortune, but admitted that others had benefited from the win more than he had.

“‘I’m just glad it’s over,” he said.

OK, look. We don’t preach here at this site.

You win, you spend your money any way you wish and God bless you.

But my advice (of course, you must READ MY FREAKING BOOK, to the right to learn what experts say you should do) is to get good financial advice.

And then party your ass off.

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 million.

And now the big one: Europe’s Euro Millions multi-country game had no big winner on Feb. 5, so the jackpot skyrockets up to 129 million euros, or about $176 million in U.S. dollars. The next drawing is Friday, Feb. 12 in Paris.

Good luck everyone. And if you happen to be in the U.K…or Spain… or…. buy a Euro Millions ticket.

Who knows, it might be your lucky day.

Largest Prize in Texas Lottery History (Mega Millions Jackpot of $144 Million) Goes to Katy, Tx. Resident

The winner has finally come forward.

The winner of the Jan. 29 Mega Millions game worth $144 million…the largest winning lottery Texas Lottery history is Katy resident William R Kiefer.

Guess what? He wants no part of fame or fortune.

Call him humble? Or perhaps naive, but I like this guy’s attitude. He said he only has three plans: retire, donate to worthy causes and encourage others to do the same.

“The greatest gift my parents gave me was to be raised a Christian,” Kiefer said. “I plan to give 60 percent of all after-tax winnings to charity.”

Top Lottery Jackpots Around the World

Starting this week, I’m gonna list some of the top jackpots in play around the world. So if you happen to be in Europe, or Canada or the U.S., check these out:

1. $140 million, Powerball, Feb. 6

2. 100 million euros, or about $138 million USD, Euro Millions, Feb. 5

3. $42 million, Lotto Texas, Feb. 6

4. $25 million ($23 million in USD), Loto Max (Canada), Feb. 5

and a tie for fifth:

5. $20 million, Mega Millions, Feb. 5

6. $20 million, SuperLotto Plus, California, Feb. 6

Good luck everyone.

MY BOOK (to the right):

Find out everything you wanted to know about the lottery…and read a lot of fun stuff about lottery winners, in my book, which many readers are enjoying.

For which I am grateful.

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 in his grave.

BACK IN THE USA:

The Feb. 5 Mega Millions jackpot is set at $20 million.

The Feb. 6 Powerball jackpot has skyrocketed to $140 million.

Good luck, everyone.

Confucius, of course, is the ancient Chinese philosopher who prodded his fellow countrymen to seek their fortunes in a decent manner.

If he was alive he would now find his portraits and sermons printed on lottery tickets, the only form of gambling allowed by the Chinese government.

Late last month, lottery stands in east China’s Shandong province began selling Confucius-themed tickets that carry a top prize of 300,000 yuan ( or about $44,000 in USD).

But the tickets have drawn ire from netizens and columnists who claim that putting Confucius’ image on lottery tickets has tarnished the image of the wise man who lived more than 2,000 years ago.

Lottery officials were surprised by the criticism.

“The center is not trying to influence the sale of their lotteries (by using Confucius’ image),” Tang Nianbing, a manager from the Shandong’s lottery center, said.

He rejected accusations that Confucius’ images were used to promote sales.

The Shandong area was home to Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, about 2,500 years ago.

Sales of the 10-yuan-per-ticket lottery have remained lukewarm.

Still, “It (the Confucius lottery) accounted for about one-tenth of total sales of all lotteries in the week,” said Tang.

Newly released lotteries often sell better than existing ones, but after a while their sales typically fall.

As of yesterday, only one second prize of 30,000 yuan had been awarded, according to Tang.

“The Confucius-themed lotteries are the country’s most real culture-centered tickets,” wrote Tang in an article before the introduction of the lottery. “Its cultural content will erect a milestone in the development of our country’s lotteries.”

In the interview with China Daily, he shrugged off criticism from outside the province, saying the use of Confucius’ image is no different from any other cultural-themed tickets, such as novel characters and antiquities.

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