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Va. Beach couple buys 5 winning lottery tickets, wins $500,000Reply
We're reading more and more stories about players buying multiple tickets with the same numbers in the smaller and fixed jackpot games games. A Kentucky player won $1 million by playing the same combo five times in the Cash Ball game. WVA had two players that played the same PB numbers with Powerplay several times and each ticket paid $2 million. I guess it's a choice between quantity, more chances or quality by winning more with the same numbers.
Jun 21, 2013, 9:12 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Record Powerball winner arrestedNews Story
A West Virginia man who won a record $315 million in the Powerball lottery was arrested on charges of drunken driving and carrying a pistol, authorities said.Jack Whittaker, 57, was jailed Tuesday night after his Hummer struck a concrete median near Beckley.Senior Trooper M.J. Pinardo reported that he smelled alcohol, but Whittaker refused sobriety tests and was extremely belligerent. Troopers also said he was carrying a small pistol in a boot and $117,000 in cash.He was released after he was
Dec 6, 2004, 8:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

For a shot at $290M, you bet they're irrationalNews Story
Mega Millions ticket buyers pin hopes on defying astronomical odds of about 135 million to 1George Frany Jr. hasn't bought his ticket yet. But have no doubts, he will.A lottery skeptic, Frany knows better than anyone that his chances of winning $290 million in tonight's Mega Millions jackpot aren't good. Since the jackpot hit $200 million, he's seen hundreds of hopeful multimillionaires walk through his convenience store door to dish out as much as $50 on tickets and strategically fill in the li
Jul 2, 2004, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

The man who won the lottery 14 times (part 1)News Story
Just after 11 PM on February 15, 1992, a lottery ball machine at the Virginia State Lottery HQ spit out 6 winning numbers on live television: 8... 11... 13... 15... 19... 20. In the coming days, officials would find out that one person had secured not only the $27,036,142 jackpot, but 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes collectively worth another $900k. What unfolded next was the strangest, most improbable lottery tale in history one involving thousands of international
Aug 20, 2018, 7:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Florida woman wins two $1 million prizes in the same scratch-off gameReply
More information is needed to check the probability of this coincidence. To compute the probability that at least one player wins two $1 million prizes in the same game, the following information is needed. How many times did she play the game? How many other people played the game at least as many times as she did? (when she won the second time) What are the odds of winning a $1 million dollar prize? (from lotto website). Hopefully (2) is good enough. Might need the full distribut
Jun 8, 2023, 10:59 am - Wavepack - Lottery News

Audit opens up conversation about possible collusion between Maryland lottery players and vendorsReply
SLGCA records show that 362 individuals won high-dollar prizes 20 or more times during the 2020 calendar year. And they probably bought most of those tickets from someone that didn't want to fill out a W-2G. But it looks like SLGCA looked the other way when some people were cashing large jackpots multiple times for the real winners. Forcing players to prove they bought a winning ticket or making rules against buying tickets as gifts, not much they can do to prevent it. The thing is, most
May 25, 2022, 9:00 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Virginia woman wins Cash 5 lottery top prize 12 times for total of $1.2 millionReply
yep. i did this today and got it big again as few times this year. I will add on/multiple plays $ on only main key #s at times. (When i can afford it ) even with Cash 5 here in NC. So since i am way UP this year$ i will continue. 1 of my cousins in Texas won 4 out of five so many times over the years. She would do it too.(Adding it multiple x same numbers) But never had yet all five. Only one main key #s though. She is so happy i bet. Congratulations.
Jul 8, 2017, 5:29 pm - Cassie8620 - Lottery News

Top N.Y. lottery winners probably lost millionsNews Story
Millions of people play the New York state lottery every year. None of them won big more often over the past eight years than a guy sitting at two out-of-the-way lakeside bars in Oswego County. Randal Stier won Quick Draw prizes of $600 or more at least 1,400 times from 2009 through last year, according to data obtained from the state lottery by journalism students at Columbia University. It's a total of nearly $1.6 million. Other players won more money, but nobody won big more times.
May 30, 2017, 1:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Meet the NYC men who won the lottery hundreds of times and collected millionsNews Story
Includes video report He can barely walk. He has one eye. But Enrico Del Rio is one lucky, lucky guy. The 94-year-old Washington Heights man has scored lottery prizes of $600 or more an astounding 376 times between 2009 and last year. His total winnings more than $1.4 million. I seem to win all the time, the ex-Navy officer said in his cramped studio apartment, filled with crates of old lotto tickets. My mother passed it to me. My family tells me I took all the luck. Del Rio
May 28, 2017, 6:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

More state lotteries adding "win for life" gamesReply
We all have our favorite and least favored games, but just because they don't like this game doesn't mean the game is terrible. Opinionated criticism seems to be the norm on LP since the $1.5 billion jackpot was announced and won. I'm sure the Robinsons could find lots of faults with their critics and quickly remind them who won. As for the game I ve played Win for Life a couple of times, but no for system play. One of the selling points is the $3 payoff for matching two numbers that helps wi
Jan 22, 2016, 7:14 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News