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Ireland Lotto winner had bank card declined hours before discovering €1m winNews Story
All the hardship this last while, Odhr n Doherty said with tears streaming down his face as he pulled his brother Shane into a firm embrace outside the National Lottery headquarters on Dublin's Abbey Street on Tuesday afternoon. The 23-year-old farmer from Raphoe Co Donegal had just arrived in Dublin in a white Hummer to collect the 1 million (US$1.12 million) prize he had won on the Lotto Plus 1 draw on Saturday night. As he picked up the check he recalled how less than 72 hours earlier
Apr 3, 2019, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Australian man wins $23 million lotto draw — twiceNews Story
A Melbourne, Australia, man is $46.6 million richer after winning the lotto not once, but twice. The blue-collar worker from St Albans in the city's north-west was stunned after he was informed that two of the three winning entries for the $70 million Oz Lotto prize on Tuesday night were registered to him. The man had marked both entries with the same numbers, which he has been doing for three decades. When we reached out to the division one winner from Melbourne to let him know he'd w
Mar 27, 2019, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Irish family celebrate after record €175 million lottery winNews Story
A family from a village outside Dublin, Ireland, has claimed a 175 million (US$198.7 million) EuroMillions jackpot after stashing the winning ticket in an Argos catalog under a mattress. The family spent the day digesting and celebrating the news that it had won Ireland's biggest-ever jackpot. This is unbelievable. It will take us some time to get our heads around this win and to organise ourselves, said a spokesperson for the family, which has not been named. We are a very close fami
Feb 21, 2019, 8:24 am - Lottery News

California man learns $10 million reason not to tell your roommate if you win the lotteryNews Story
This past Christmas, a man in Vacaville, Calif., learned a grim, but useful, holiday lesson: Sometimes, don't spread glad tidings. Keep the good news to yourself. It was Dec. 20, and the city of about 100,000, located midway between Sacramento and San Francisco, was festooned with white lights and toy reindeer. Hoping to get his hands on a bit of extra cash for the holidays, the Vacaville man went to a Lucky grocery store and paid $30 for a scratch-off lottery ticket that odds said would leav
Jan 9, 2019, 5:55 pm - Lottery News

$2.7 billion El Gordo Christmas 2018 lottery drawing held in SpainNews Story
Includes video report Those holding ticket number 03347 struck it rich Saturday when they won the top prize in Spain's famous Christmas lottery. The lottery, known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, dished out 2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) in prize money this year. The top prize for a winning ticket was 400,000 euros ($455,000), but there were many smaller prizes. Here the people are celebrating a lot, it's the first time that the top prize for the Christmas lottery has fallen here, Luis Sori
Dec 23, 2018, 5:04 pm - Lottery News

Nebraska woman told her winning lottery ticket is a dudNews Story
Connie Johnson got one of the very first scratch-off cards for the Nebraska Lottery's new Christmas game, Holiday Bonus Bucks. In fact, the lady at Russ's Market, where Johnson goes to get prescriptions filled, hadn't even opened the packets for the new lottery game. Have you got anything new? Johnson asked. The woman opened the new game tickets. Johnson bought four of them, drove home, did a little house work, then sat down and scratched one. It said I won $1,000! Johnson was
Nov 26, 2018, 10:05 am - Lottery News

Couple finds winning $1.8M lottery ticket while cleaning house for ThanksgivingNews Story
Claims prize two weeks before expiration Harold and Tina Ehrenberg hit the jackpot literally as they tidied up their Mandeville, Louisiana, home this week while preparing to host a Thanksgiving crowd. On a nightstand in their bedroom, Tina stumbled upon a few forgotten lottery tickets and one was a winning ticket that entitled them to a $1.8 million jackpot. But that's not even the craziest part. It turns out the pair claimed the prize just in the nick of time. Winnings for draw-style lott
Nov 23, 2018, 8:58 am - Lottery News

Montana woman wins lottery twice in one dayNews Story
Winning the lottery once was exciting for Cheyenne Long of Kalispell, Montana, but winning it twice in one day was unbelievable. Long won a total of $77,000 playing Power Play Gold Crossword, a Montana Lottery Scratch ticket, according to a press release from the Montana Lottery. Long bought her first ticket on the morning of July 1, and was happy to find out that she had won $2,000. But then she had a gut feeling to buy more of that ticket. So later that day when she was in Havre, she
Jul 7, 2018, 8:52 am - Lottery News

Happy Independence DayNews Story
From the staff of Lottery Post, have a happy and safe Fourth of July! Enjoy the holiday, and feel free to use this as an open thread to tell us what you have planned for the day.
Jul 4, 2018, 7:50 am - Lottery News

SC lottery error prompts class-action lawsuitNews Story
It was Christmas Day in South Carolina and plenty of people were feeling lucky. For just $1, they could buy a ticket for Holiday Cash Add-A-Play at their local convenience store. The ticket looked a bit like a tic-tac-toe game: get three Christmas trees in a row on a nine-space grid and you won, maybe 2 or 20 bucks. Get all nine Christmas trees to fill the grid entirely and you won the $500 jackpot. The odds of that happening were 1 in 4,800. But something amazing started happening at exactly
Jun 2, 2018, 9:10 am - Lottery News