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Maryland man hoping for second-chance lottery prize ends up winning $50,000 instead
Lucky player is no stranger to winning second-chance prizes
By Kate Northrop
A Maryland man who bought a lottery ticket hoping to enter a second-chance promotion ended up winning a $50,000 top prize from a Corvette-themed scratch-off game.
One lucky lottery winner bought a scratch-off ticket with his eye on a second-chance prize promotion, but now he'll have to buy another ticket if he still wants to enter because his lottery purchase landed him a $50,000 top prize instead.
The w
Jul 31, 2023, 2:35 pm - Todd - Lottery News
U.K. convicts used stolen card to win £4 million lottery prize; now card owner wants the winnings
Blotto Louts bender is short-lived
Includes video report
By Kate Northrop
The owner of the debit card two United Kingdom convicts used to purchase a winning lottery ticket worth 4 million (US$4.98 million) says he wants to see at least a portion of the prize.
Joshua Addyman, 29, was on the receiving end of a fraudulent debit purchase made by two jobless convicts, Mark Goodram and Jon-Ross Watson, which resulted in a 4 million lottery win.
Just having learned of the win last w
Apr 16, 2024, 8:12 am - Todd - Lottery News
Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in Powerball
April 1 drawing handsomely rewards couple's inadvertent purchase
By Kate Northrop
A Maryland couple was surprised to find out that one of their favorite lottery retailers sold not one, but two $1 million winning Powerball tickets, and they were even more shocked to learn that they were in possession of both.
It was no April Fool's joke. The duplicate Powerball ticket a Maryland couple didn't even realize they had bought doubled their lottery prize total to $2 million.
On Monday,
Apr 11, 2024, 4:04 pm - Todd - Lottery News
New York woman says she was winner of unclaimed $12 million Lotto jackpot from 1992
It was a comedy of errors.
By Kate Northrop
A New York woman has revealed that she was the winner of a $12 million Lotto jackpot that was never claimed in 1992.
A lottery jackpot on the verge of expiring prompts many players to rifle through their drawers or shuffle the contents of their car glovebox around, searching for that fateful ticket that could change their life forever. For one New York woman, however, she knew she had won even before checking her own ticket, but at that po
Oct 18, 2023, 5:05 pm - Todd - Lottery News
$820 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Tuesday
8th-largest lottery jackpot in world history
By Todd Northrop
The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night when no tickets matched all six numbers.
Last night nobody won the Mega Millions lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Tuesday jackpot estimated at $820 million with a cash value of $422 million.
To get to this massive size, the jackpot has been growing since it started on April 21 as a $20 million prize now 27
Jul 22, 2023, 7:19 am - Todd - Lottery News
$900 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rises, but sales miss in last draw makes for small increase
By Todd Northrop
Powerball lottery players might be wondering this morning why the jackpot only increased by $25 million after nobody won last night's $875 million grand prize.
The answer is that the last jackpot was estimated too high. During the live drawing it was announced that after all proceeds were counted, the final jackpot tally came to $829.4 million $45.6 million shy of the expected amount. Likewise, the cash value that was initially estimated to reach $452.2 million only in f
Jul 16, 2023, 6:41 am - Todd - Lottery News
Iowa woman buys winning $2 million Powerball lottery ticket right before sales cutoff
A race against the clock from start to finish
By Kate Northrop
An Iowa woman bought a Powerball lottery ticket just in the nick of time, which ended up winning her a $2 million prize.
To say Megan Balmer's experience with winning the lottery was exciting is an understatement from the moment she bought her ticket to stepping into Iowa Lottery headquarters to claim a $2 million Powerball prize, this win had her running around on fumes.
Balmer's win began when she and her boyfriend,
Jul 14, 2023, 11:15 am - Todd - Lottery News
$975 MILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot increases again
Easter sales dip might be holding it back
By Todd Northrop
The near-billion-dollar Powerball jackpot grew again last night, but perhaps not as much as it would have if this weren't Easter weekend.
The latest increase of the current lengthy Powerball jackpot run comes after nobody won last night's drawing, sending the Monday jackpot ever closer to heights that once seemed unattainable for a lottery game.
Monday's Powerball jackpot is currently estimated at $975 million, with a lu
Mar 31, 2024, 9:07 am - Todd - Lottery News
Lottery Post's guide to 2023 holiday raffles across the USA
U.S. states to host annual holiday raffles this year
Montana Millionaire raffle tickets sell out in five hours
By Kate Northrop
Within a mere five hours of sales for Montana's Millionaire raffle going live, all 380,000 tickets were sold out.
This year marked an unheard-of demand for the Montana Millionaire raffle, even more so than the unprecedented response that Montana Lottery officials saw to their statewide raffle last year. For reference, tickets sold out in 29 hours after g
Nov 2, 2023, 7:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News
Single mother who won $6 million in lottery opens up about the good and bad of winning millions
Winner is still doing financially well even though she was tempted to splurge
By Kate Northrop
While many hopeful lottery players dream about the cars they'd drive, the places they'd vacation to, and the mansions they'd buy if they ever won big, a single mother stepped forward seven years after her $6 million win to talk about what makes winning millions in the lottery so tricky.
When a single mother won $6 million in her state lottery, she didn't expect the sudden changes that were
Oct 30, 2023, 4:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News