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$1.4 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingNews Story
5th-largest lottery jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Last night, the multi-state Powerball lottery game produced no top winner for the 33rd consecutive drawing, prompting lottery officials to raise the game's jackpot to an astonishing $1.4 billion. A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $643.7 million more than a half-billion dollars in cash! It's the stuff that a lottery player's dreams are made of holding a lottery ticket for an upcoming Powerbal
Oct 5, 2023, 6:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

$925 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot nears billion-dollar milestoneNews Story
9th-largest US lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After a 30th-consecutive drawing without a winner, the Powerball multi-state lottery game now features a jackpot that will provide multi-generational wealth to the lucky player who eventually wins it all. After nobody won Wednesday's $856.1 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a staggering $925 million for Saturday's drawing the 9th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time, and the 4th-largest Powerball jackp
Sep 28, 2023, 7:05 am - Todd - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthNews Story
9th-largest jackpot in US history By Todd Northrop This week Powerball is the hot ticket, featuring a massive jackpot that is approaching a billion dollars. The new high-water mark of $835 million for the current Powerball annuity jackpot estimate was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Monday night's $793.6 million grand prize. It is the 9th-highest lottery jackpot in history, and the 4th-largest Powerball jackpot ever. The lump-sum cash payout value of Wednesd
Sep 26, 2023, 6:58 am - Todd - Lottery News

One ticket sold in Florida is sole winner of $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop After a run of 31 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 32nd drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.58 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Florida matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the 8th time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the seventh time a single ticket won $1 billion or more. The winner of the unimaginable haul will choose between being paid $1.58 billion in 30 annuall
Aug 9, 2023, 6:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

One ticket sold in California wins $1.08 billion Powerball jackpotNews Story
6th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop For the second time in less than a year, someone in California won a lottery jackpot worth more than $1 billion. After a run of 36 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 37th drawing of the multi-state Powerball game produced a single $1.0798 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in California matched all five numbers plus the Powerball. The whopping jackpot is the sixth-largest the world has ever seen, and
Jul 20, 2023, 7:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthReply
this is a bit of a false narrative, the top five states with the most Mega Millions Jackpot winners are: New York 43, California 33, New Jersey 22, Ohio 20 and Michigan 18 and the top five states with the most Power Ball Jackpot winners are: Indiana 39, Missouri 31, Minnesota 22, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin 19 *notice a lot of the top states have not had a Jackpot winner in many years. Mega Millions Jackpot odds: 1 in 302,575,350 Power Ball Jackpot odds:
Sep 27, 2023, 10:14 pm - lottoman626 - Lottery News

Michigan man wins his second six-figure jackpot prize from the same game this yearReply
No, Michigan is just weird. While Metro Detroit does have the most population there are some strange things happening elsewhere. I am trying to figure out why Gaylord has had two big $30 scratch wins for $4,000,000 each and a big 6/47 win. Gaylord is in Otsego county and had a population of 4286 in the 2020 census. Otsego county had 25,091 in 2020. The wins were $13.09 million in 2015 and $4mil in 2022 and $4mil in 2015. Marquette had a population of 20,629 in 2020 while Marquet
Sep 2, 2023, 11:42 am - Think - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery to add Double Play add-on feature to PowerballNews Story
Iowa players will have access to additional Powerball Double Play drawing By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery has announced that it has approved a plan to allow players to add the Double Play add-on feature to their Powerball tickets. There are plans in the works to add the Double Play feature to Powerball in Iowa, an add-on that has gained popularity in other states since it was launched last August . Speaking on Radio Iowa, Lottery spokesperson Mary Neubauer explained the logisti
Aug 17, 2023, 4:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Washington, D.C. woman wins $2 million Powerball prize from lottery ticket gifted to her by husbandNews Story
Winner unwraps the perfect present on Christmas Day By Kate Northrop A Powerball lottery ticket ended up being the best present under the Christmas tree for one Washington D.C. woman, who won $2 million from the ticket gifted to her by her husband. A Washington D.C. woman won $2 million on a Powerball lottery ticket that she received as a gift from her husband on Christmas Day. Pamela V. rang in the new year with a $2 million winning Powerball ticket in-hand thanks to her husband
Jan 9, 2024, 12:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New bill in Wisconsin could allow some lottery winners to remain anonymousNews Story
Bill advocates for a balance between transparency and a winner's right to privacy By Kate Northrop A bill was recently introduced in Wisconsin that would allow certain lottery winners to hide their identity when claiming a prize. Some lottery winners might have access to more privacy in Wisconsin should bill LRB-4130 pass, which calls for extended confidentiality for those winning above a certain amount. Representative William Penterman, the bill's primary sponsor, published a pr
Dec 7, 2023, 11:32 am - Todd - Lottery News