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Auditor general finds no fault with Pa. Lottery, but unusual wins remain unexplainedReply
I fail to see how those wins are classified as unusually high. Just because they're different in the sense that they are more than average does not make them in any way in my opinion unusual or duplicitous. Statisticians aside, I fail to see how even a statisticians point of view is relevant. These are vague and general opinions and observations that have nothing to do with fact. In my humble opinion. What is the lottery saying, that people are just willing to throw their money away without any
Feb 7, 2018, 7:27 am - Soledad - Lottery News

The USA's 'luckiest' lottery players may not be as lucky as they seemReply
I think I remember over a decade ago when there was no self-checking machines to know if I won, and I may have been a victim of theft/cheating from a store clerk. Here's what I can remember; I had asked the store clerk to check my bonus match 5 ticket and he had that look on his face and asked me urgently how much do you think you won? I responded whatever it is that tells you in the computer . He gave me $150, but I had a feeling I actually won more than that due to his reaction of wanting to g
Sep 24, 2017, 12:28 pm - thealfa - Lottery News

Lottery veterans question Tennessee family's behavior before claiming Powerball winningsReply
Nobody wants their life to change after a big win. It's not unusual for big winners to state they want to just be myself and continue living their everyday lives. How many times have we seen a jackpot winner say I'm still going to be me ? Unfortunately for The Robinson's, they don't have any choice in the matter because their life is going to change whether they want it to or not. Changes started happening to them the minute they stepped in front of the TV cameras on The Today show. Peopl
Jan 17, 2016, 8:17 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Virginia man claims three $1 million prizesReply
It's just natural for some folks to think when anyone comes that close to winning a jackpot with three tickets in the same drawing they had a system or strategy for playing. If he had one he wasn't interested in talking about it with all that talk about money not being important. He may have been a casual player but he was a serious player having matched five on three tickets and four on two other ones. He probably brought more than five tickets. People forget some players have strategies
Jun 11, 2015, 7:22 am - RJOh - Lottery News

Woman almost gave away her $1.3M lottery ticketReply
I think I have to disagree with you here. How many multi-millionaires/multi-billionaires do you know of who call a middle-class house their home. Seems to me that they all log serious travel time for business and/or pleasure, but they all come 'home' to seven figure mansions at some point. That in itself is nothing unusual since most people move into bigger and better houses as soon as they can afford it. And people who get put up in world class hotels while traveling want to keep certain wor
Jan 4, 2015, 9:01 pm - Teddi - Lottery News

Texas Lottery suspends sales for 'All or Nothing' gameReply
Nobody has come up with a winning a scheme, because the game is random and has fixed prizes. The problem is that in this game they advertise that the prizes are guaranteed. There's no escape hatch when they get an unusually high number of winners, and some idiot designed it so that it exposed them to the possibility of an extremely high number of winners. There are about 2.7 million combinations for a 12 of 24 game. That makes the odds of having all or nothing 1 in 1.35 million, and the prize
Jun 5, 2013, 12:34 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

EuroMillions lottery winners to build unusual homeNews Story
Once you've bought your 100,000 Jaguar XKR-S, paid off Dad's mortgage and given your best friend more than 1 million, how do you start wasting spending the rest of a 45 million lottery win? The answer for Matt and Cassey Topham, a former decorator and supermarket worker from Nottingham who scooped the EuroMillions jackpot last year, is to erect a futuristic mansion on a suburban avenue with all the trappings of a James Bond villain's lair. The couple on Thursday submitted a planning applic
Apr 20, 2013, 1:49 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$216 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls againReply
Looking at it from that perspective, I can see your point of view. Anytime either PB or MM get into the 300MM range is unusual territory... 500MM + is rare. I was very surprised to see MM roll to 656M... I was convinced somebody would have won it on the previous roll. Frankly, if PB got to Cali and was 2Billion... I don't think I would play- If I won, I would be totally freaked out... just too much heat with that kinda cash... even if I had the option to claim it anonymously.
Mar 17, 2013, 2:55 pm - Romancandle - Lottery News

NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketReply
Having a scratch game go on for several years is not that unusual. There are several Massachusetts $20 scratchers which began in 2007-2008, that are still being sold today. States of this size sell upwards of 20 million+ tickets for some of the bigger games, and it takes time to sell them all. Two of these games are the Billion Dollar Blockbuster and Billion Dollar Bonanza . (Both $20 scratchers).
Oct 17, 2012, 10:22 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News

Quaker Oats workers claim $241 million Powerball jackpotReply
Hurray for the shipping 20!!! 5.6 million after taxes, what a great story. Decent folks who want to give back to their community and local union. Another feather in the cap of pro-pool advocates. This is an unusual case where all twenty are seeking in injunction to prevent their names being given to the public. Should be interesting to follow this one, particularly where Iowa is not an anonymous state.
Jun 21, 2012, 10:19 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News