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$1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in OregonNews Story
Lump-sum cash option worth $621 million Drawing was delayed by one state needing more time to process sales Updated with area that winning ticket was sold By Todd Northrop Around the United States, millions of people had to wait an extra three hours last night to find out if they won the unbelievably massive Powerball jackpot, due to one unnamed state's inability to deal with the huge amount of ticket sales data. When the drawing did finally occur Sunday morning, it turns o
Apr 7, 2024, 8:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

$935 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot nears billion-dollar milestoneNews Story
11th-largest US lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After a 37th-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 $873.1 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a staggering $935 million for Saturday's drawing the 11th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time, and the 5th-largest Powerball jac
Mar 28, 2024, 7:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

One New Jersey ticket is sole winner of $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot ever won in the Garden State Updated with retailer that sold the winning ticket By Todd Northrop After a run of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 31st drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.13 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in New Jersey matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the 10th time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the ninth time a single ticket won $1
Mar 27, 2024, 7:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball welcomes 2024 with an $810 million New Year's Day jackpotNews Story
10th-largest jackpot in US history By Todd Northrop What a way to start the new year! In the lottery world, 2024 is starting with a loud bang, as the multi-state Powerball game is holding a drawing for a whopping $810 million jackpot on New Year's Day. The massive Powerball annuity jackpot estimate was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $786.1 million grand prize. It is the 10th-highest lottery jackpot in history, and the 5th-largest Powerball
Dec 31, 2023, 7:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Just weeks left to claim $44 million Florida Lotto ticketReply
There might be a slight ray of hope for this ticket yet to be claimed. There may be something going on that's invisible to both The Florida Lottery and the general public. After all, it is the equivalent of a small PowerBall jackpot amount of $44,000,000. If (and that's a big if ) the winner is waiting to claim the 44 million at the last minute, it could be that they will claim it anonymously for 90 days using Florida Statute 24.1051. That would grant them a total 9 months of privacy which i
Nov 28, 2023, 9:17 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

$1.08 billion Powerball lottery winner Yanira Alvarez filed claim for jackpot over five months agoReply
I thought a lottery ticket is a bearer's instrument (it is written so on the back of many tickets). Some basic vetting is appropriate (i.e., where when did you buy this ticket?), but police interviews, checking the store's video feed, waiting months to award you the money, etc.) is way over-the-top. It seems like nowadays they (the state lotteries) can potentially come up with any reason for refusing to give you the money you won, and I think that's way too much power for them when in fact WE (l
Apr 19, 2024, 4:48 pm - lowerPB-MModds! - Lottery News

Lottery Hanky PankyReply
Anytime computers and networking is involved, there's always room for hanky panky. As an IT admin, with enterprise rights, anything can be done and all these lotteries are networked. The speed at which things are calculated should have no room for error, unless it's 'human error' which means manipulation/tampering. Code it, program it, run it, check for errors, if all is proper, leave it alone. But when jackpots get this big, and supposedly the lottery proceeds are meant for education(either a l
Apr 16, 2024, 6:03 pm - Bluegal1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in PowerballReply
Our self serve machines do not have replay feature either if that's what you're talking about. Our clerks can replay your tickets for you. Naturally I wrote IGT (physical letter, no e-mail) suggestion that the machines be equipped with a replay feature...naturally this shareholder never got a reply. However years before that I wrote them in Las Vegas and said I had won several jackpots on their WOF slot machines. They sent me a very nice WOF with IGT on the back.
Apr 11, 2024, 8:29 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

$935 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot nears billion-dollar milestoneReply
I feel this pot going to climb into the top 3 Maybe, but it needs to almost double, to about 1.815 billion to be in the real top 3, based on the current cash:annuity ratio. It will reach a billion by Saturday for sure. That would require actual sales to be almost twice as much as the original forecast. Call me crazy, but I think that seems just a tiny bit unlikely. Considering the odds are even higher for mega millions than they are for Powerball ... The very high odds for
Mar 29, 2024, 4:48 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Suspicious? last 4 jackpots were hit after billion dollar markReply
No! Because it is not true. Only 2 of the last 4 jackpots were over $1 billion.
Mar 28, 2024, 9:07 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum