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Winners share $3 billion in Spain's El Gordo lotteryNews Story
Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery billed among the world's richest dished out some 2.32 billion (US$3.23 billion) in prizes. The top prize of the lottery dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) went to holders of tickets bearing the number 32365 which appears on 1,950 tickets, each winning 300,000 (US$418,000). Thousands of others cashed in on runner-up prizes. The top number was sung out at just after noon Monday by pupils of Madrid's Saint Ildefonso Scho
Dec 23, 2008, 9:06 am - Lottery News

£7M lottery winner goes back to workNews Story
A train driver who won a 6.9 million (US$12.8 million) lottery fortune has booked a return ticket and gone back to work on the railways. Carl Prance gave up his job of 34 years for a string of dream holidays when his family hit the jackpot. But just 10 months later he's getting up at 5am to drive 30 miles in his luxury Jaguar to start his 6am shift. Prance, 50, missed the lure of trains so much after both his father and grandfather spent their lives on the railways. He said, Some peo
Aug 25, 2008, 8:11 am - Lottery News

Spain nabs con artists in major lottery scamNews Story
Spanish police have arrested 43 Africans on suspicion of running a fraud ring in which people were duped into paying money as a handling charge to collect fake lottery winnings. (Editor's note: See http://www.usamega.com/lottery-scams.asp for a description of this type of lottery scam.) Authorities estimate the men 42 Nigerians and one Senegalese bilked people out of more than 2 million (US$2.6 million) altogether. They were arrested Tuesday in Seville, and another five Nigerians were
Feb 7, 2007, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Tiny village hits El Gordo lottery jackpotNews Story
A remote Spanish farming village today became several million dollars richer after each of its 25 inhabitants won a share of the top prize in the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo. The church bells rang in Rebollo de Duero, in the central Spanish province of Soria, as the handful of farming families celebrated their good fortune. Soria is one of western Europe's most sparsely inhabited regions, with many villages abandoned completely by their inhabitants over the past half century. I d
Dec 23, 2006, 8:54 pm - Lottery News

Spain goes bullistic as big, fat lottery faces bald truthNews Story
The Bald One has left the Fat One. Now everyone's talking. For the past eight years, Spaniards have been cajoled into buying lottery tickets in El Gordo (the Fat One) the world's richest annual lottery draw by advertisements featuring El Calvo (the Bald One), a silent, mysterious figure showering good fortune at random upon Spaniards as a symbol of the Fat One's beneficence. But the Bald One, it seems, became too famous for his own good. Despite being one of the best-known faces on
Dec 20, 2006, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery to offer limited-run raffle-style gameNews Story
The Maryland Lottery will add a new and completely different type of game to its product mix on November 20th with the launch of Countdown to Millions, a $20 raffle-style game. Unlike other lottery and jackpot games, Countdown to Millions offers a limited number of tickets designed to be sold in their entirety prior to awarding prizes. The game differs from other lottery and jackpot games where the total number of possible combinations seldom, if ever, sells out. As we move into the hol
Nov 18, 2006, 7:53 pm - Lottery News

Huge Euro Millions lottery jackpot split 20 waysNews Story
Britain proved a good place to buy a lottery ticket this week as seven Britons won 6.75 million (US$12.8 million) each in the Euro Millions lottery draw on Friday. With no single ticket holder matching all five main numbers and the two Lucky Star numbers, the 123 million (US$233 million, 182 million) jackpot, which had been rolled over for an 11th time, was shared between 20 people across Europe. France had four winners, Portugal and Spain had three, Ireland had two while Belgium had on
Nov 18, 2006, 9:22 am - Lottery News

$8 million lottery dispute grips SpainNews Story
Like many factory workers around the world, they dreamed of winning the lottery and retiring early to enjoy their riches. But when the numbers came up for the group of Spanish workmates, joy quickly turned to despair after the one who collected the prize denied that there had ever been a deal to share the money. Now a judge in Barcelona must decide whether Antonio Lloreda Capillo is entitled to keep the 6 million (US$7.7 million) jackpot or must share it with 19 colleagues from the lotte
May 25, 2006, 8:18 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Giant Targets European MarketNews Story
Scientific Games, a dominant player in the US instant lottery ticket market, is jockeying for a larger stake in Europe after buying a British maker of betting terminals last month. The traditional lotto market has matured in Europe, the chief executive of Scientific Games, Lorne Weill, said. Growth needed to come from other product areas, such as instant scratch tickets and video lottery terminals. Instant lottery tickets are a high-growth market. In Italy, annual sales of instant
May 9, 2006, 6:50 am - Lottery News

Euro Million Lottery's $222 Million Cash Prize Held by 3 TicketsNews Story
Three winning ticket-holders will share the 126 million British pounds (US$222 million) top prize in EuroMillions, the lottery held in nine European countries. Two of the winning tickets were purchased in France and one in Portugal, according to unconfirmed results in an e-mailed statement by Camelot Group Plc, the lottery operator. The winning numbers were 9, 21, 30, 39, 50 and the Lucky Stars numbers were 1 and 3. The payoff in today's draw swelled after no winners emerged from any lot
Feb 4, 2006, 7:10 am - Lottery News