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Same Lotto Numbers Come Up Sat and SunNews Story
The odds of the same Oklahoma Pick 3 lottery numbers coming up two nights in a row are a million to one, but that's just what happened last weekend.The numbers 1-7-5 were selected at random both Saturday and Sunday night. We checked and double-checked all the procedures, and everything was done correctly. It was just one of those coincidences, Jim Scroggins, director of the Oklahoma Lottery Commission, said.University of Central Oklahoma mathematician Larry Lucas says that on any given day, the
Dec 14, 2005, 7:57 am - Lottery News

44 hospital workers split Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
Forty-four. A lucky number indeed.It was one of six winning numbers in a recent $10-million Florida Lotto jackpot. It was also the number of local winners 44 workers at University Community Hospital-Carrollwood.The fortunate 44 struck it big Nov. 19, but waited until Tuesday to claim their lump-sum prize of nearly $5.9 million, which breaks down to nearly $134,000 per person.To claim their winnings, they formed a group called the Surgical Services Lottery Trust. The winners want to remain anon
Dec 2, 2005, 11:59 am - Lottery News

Two winning Mega Millions lottery tickets in $35 Million drawingNews Story
Two tickets will share the $35 million jackpot in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing.Lottery officials said the winning tickets matching all five lotto balls and the Mega Ball were sold in Wilmington, Calif., and Saginaw, Mich.The prize for Friday's drawing drops back to $12 million.Five tickets had all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball and pay $250,000 apiece: 3 from New York, 1 from Texas, and 1 from Washington.Also, 17 tickets matched four of the five lotto numbe
Nov 30, 2005, 3:09 pm - Lottery News

Couple learns downside of lottery pools -- the hard wayNews Story
A United Kingdom couple faces the prospect of losing their home after the High Court dismissed their claim for a slice of a 7.2 million (US$12.3 million) UK Lotto jackpot.Tony and Kay Tomkins were handed an 86,000 (US$147,026) legal bill after claiming a fellow syndicate member struck lucky but secretly kept their share of the payout.After a seven-year wrangle, the court accepted evidence that pal Mark East's dad won the cash and gave him a 1 million slice.A judge struck out the Tomkins' cl
Nov 28, 2005, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

Number 13 'officially' unlucky in UK LotteryNews Story
The number 13 has traditionally been considered to be unlucky by people, and now the UK's National Lottery chiefs have revealed that the number does in fact happen to be the unluckiest for Lotto players as it is least likely to be picked in the main draw.The research conducted for Camelot, the UK National Lottery operator, showed that in eleven years, the No.13 ball has only been picked up a 108 times as a main ball, and only 12 times as a bonus ball. The research also showed that people with th
Nov 28, 2005, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery to end Lotto gameNews Story
The Maryland State Lottery Agency recently announced that the current Lotto game will soon come to an end. The final drawing will take place on February 1, 2006.Since it began in 1983, Lotto has generated over $1 billion in cash prizes and has produced a total of 622 millionaires over a 23-year span.To replace the current Lotto game, the Lottery will launch Multi-Match.Since the introduction of the Big Game in 1996, Lotto sales have declined. Based on extensive player research, the Lottery has
Nov 21, 2005, 8:28 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery to change Lotto game back to 6/54 formatNews Story
Texas lottery commissioners moved one step closer Friday to returning the Lotto Texas game to its original format by signing off on a plan to bounce the so-called bonus ball from the format that decides how the multimillion-dollar jackpots are won.Meanwhile, the two sitting commissioners who oversee lottery operations deferred a decision on who will be hired to run the agency, which generates $1 billion a year for the state. But both offered high praise for former state Rep. Talmadge Heflin, a H
Nov 19, 2005, 9:20 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot reaches whopping $310 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game has grown to a near-record $310 million.None of the tickets sold for Friday's $262 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday. Drawing results will be displayed at www.usamega.com shortly after 11:00 PM Eastern Time Tuesday.There were 12 second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing: 2 from California, 1 from Georgia, 2 from Illinois, 1 from Maryland, 1 from Michigan, 1 from New
Nov 12, 2005, 10:10 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery player wins $125,692 Lotto 5 jackpotNews Story
A player who purchased a Lotto 5 ticket in Charleston in Bradley County will win the $125,692 jackpot from Wednesday night s drawing for that game.No additional information is available until the player claims the prize.The Powerball jackpot continues to climb and is estimated at $25 million for the next drawing on Saturday, Nov. 12. Although no player matched all six numbers correctly in Wednesday night s drawing, there were 26,659 winners who purchased tickets from retailers in the state of Te
Nov 11, 2005, 10:36 am - Lottery News

New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winnerNews Story
A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.TVNZ reports the owner of a Lotto shop in Kapiti Coast told the man he had won $642 New Zealand ($440 U.S.). It turns out when the lucky winner checked with the Lottery Commission the actual payoff on his $6 ticket was 50 times that amount, or about $20,000 U.S. dollars.The commission said Lotto shops are required to have computer screens visible to customers and to ret
Nov 11, 2005, 9:54 am - Lottery News