Search

32 winning tickets split $184,416 California Lottery Fantasy 5 jackpotNews Story
Pattern comes up in drawn numbers By Kate Northrop A notably large number of tickets won the California Lottery's Fantasy 5 jackpot in Friday's drawing. 32 winning tickets are splitting a $184,416 Fantasy 5 jackpot, giving each winning ticket a much lower share of the prize than usual. As a result, each winning ticket will receive a $5,673 share of the jackpot before federal taxes. California does not have a state tax on lottery prizes. The winning numbers in the drawing on F
Jun 28, 2023, 2:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois woman wins $1 million on lottery ticket given to her by another gas station customerNews Story
One player's trash is another's treasure By Kate Northrop An Illinois woman won $1 million on a Lucky Day Lotto ticket after another gas station customer decided they didn't want it and gave it to her. An anonymous Illinois woman was not expecting a million dollars to quite literally be handed to her last week, and its thanks to a kind gesture from another nameless gas station customer. She is shocked that, despite not even having bought a lottery ticket, she is the recipient of
May 2, 2024, 10:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Oregon woman who doesn't check lottery tickets wins $1 million in raffleNews Story
Winner would have forgotten to check tickets if it weren't for Powerball By Kate Northrop An Oregon woman admitted that if it weren't for Powerball making headlines, she would not have thought to check an Oregon Lottery Raffle ticket that turned out to be worth $1 million. If it were not for seeing Powerball come up in the news, an Oregon woman would not have bothered to check her stack of lottery tickets, one of which held the winning numbers for a $1 million prize. Leslie Carr,
Apr 25, 2024, 7:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Nebraska Lottery will join Lotto America in MayNews Story
Multi-state game to be offered in yet another state By Kate Northrop The Nebraska Lottery officially announced today that it will begin offering tickets for the multi-state game Lotto America. The Mississippi Lottery is not the only state lottery to recently announce its decision to join the multi-state game . Just today, the Nebraska Lottery revealed that it will start offering the game, too. In addition to Mega Millions and Powerball, Nebraska lottery players will soon have ano
Apr 21, 2024, 8:14 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in OregonReply
I have two bachelor's degree one statistics and one business finance. I love what I do but I do play the lottery hoping for the charlie buckett scenario where I can live in financial freedom why I'm young like many of us. I do believe in truly random with the lottery game and game of chance and that only applies if everything is truly fair. Now my question is from all the courses I've taken and understanding the odds 1-302 Million and every ticket have a random fair chance why is it one ticket t
Apr 7, 2024, 2:09 pm - Wildbill78 - Lottery News

Michigan woman who won $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life lottery prize thought she was hackedReply
When two or more people win the jackpot 1000 a day for life, the money is split. For the second prize, I think up to 7 people each gets the full amount, I could be wrong thou. But I love the odds and 390K is not pocket change
Mar 29, 2024, 3:06 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

Michigan woman who won $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life lottery prize thought she was hackedReply
Though the top two tier prizes are the dreaded Pari-mutuel don't think that has ever happened best of my knowledge. Going to TRY to not play the big boys unless they reach $40 million and play this instead; odds are much better. It is nice that like KY, MI you can play on-line. That legal mumbo jumbo mailed to California lottery about that and getting Double play on Powerball should get there Monday. Like Todd said their law prevents Double play. Now going to look up Mega Millions
Mar 29, 2024, 12:12 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

Michigan woman who won $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life lottery prize thought she was hackedNews Story
Reinvesting lottery wins pays off By Kate Northrop A Michigan woman thought her account was hacked when she logged in to the Michigan Lottery's website and found a $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life prize waiting for her. An online Michigan lottery player thought that the $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life prize displayed on her screen was either a mistake or the result of someone hacking her account. It was no trick Patricia Royer, of Escanaba, won the second-tier prize
Mar 29, 2024, 7:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

California Lottery announces group as winners of historic $1.765 billion Powerball jackpotReply
Interesting. I think the education system in Britain is much better than United States. The British appear to understand probabilities much better. In Britain, most jackpots are won by pools. They are referred to as syndicates in Britain. There is mathematical proof. Your odds of winning increase dramatically with more tickets bought.
Mar 18, 2024, 9:53 am - winoneday - Lottery News

Michigan woman finds out through Facebook that she won $1 million Powerball lottery prizeReply
Many people around the country believe they never going to hit so they just play for fun and they really don't check their tickets immediately until like weeks or months later because of the odds or that old saying it could never be me or it's fixed I always check my tickets because I heard unbelievable story here in Ohio from a person who works for the lottery that a man called into the headquarters and asked him to check his ticket that he found ball up in his pick up truck! He lost it and nev
Mar 13, 2024, 6:11 pm - Wildbill78 - Lottery News