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Lucky Texan just claimed biggest prize ever paid to a single player in state's lotteryNews Story
A lucky Texan just won the biggest prize ever awarded to a single player in the state's lottery. A resident in Leander, a city in the Austin metro area, claimed the $227 million jackpot prize for the Mega Millions drawing in late September, according to a lottery news release. The winner is remaining anonymous. After taxes, the winner will take home just over $157 million. While two other jackpots in Texas have been larger, this was the biggest prize won by a single player in the state,
Oct 29, 2019, 8:08 am - Lottery News

'You assume all the money noise stops when you finally have it'News Story
What would you do if you suddenly came into a large amount of money? Would you upgrade your home and invest the rest, putting just a little aside to build a shelter for orphaned orang-utans, just as you once said you would? Actually, you're far more likely to drive a succession of sports cars into swimming pools a visual representation of the proverbial car crash your life is likely to become as you fritter away your cash bonanza. A study at Vanderbilt University in the US found that lottery
Oct 14, 2019, 9:19 am - Lottery News

€190m EuroMillions lottery jackpot will be won tonight, no matter whatNews Story
Odds of winning slashed to 1 in 7 million The EuroMillions jackpot of 190 million (US$209 million) will have to be won on Tuesday night no matter what happens, with the odds of claiming at least a share of the top prize effectively falling from 140 million to 1 to a considerably more manageable 7 million to 1 due to a never-before enforced rule. The current jackpot has been rolling over since July 23rd and this week for the first time in the 15-year history of the game, it will have hit it
Oct 8, 2019, 8:58 am - Lottery News

Lottery millionaire still lives in a trailer in MaineNews Story
It's not an extravagant life, certainly, but it makes him happy. So when he recently won big playing the Maine State Lottery not just once, but twice, for a total of $1.1 million within a single four-month period he didn't see much sense in changing things up, even after the money started rolling in. The rolls of lottery winners might be filled with tales of lives altered following sudden riches, but Bobby Stuart's has remained exceedingly constant. Ain't nothing really different, he s
Sep 27, 2019, 8:44 am - Lottery News

Korean War veteran wins lottery five times in one drawingNews Story
Luck struck North Carolina Navy veteran Add Lancaster not once, but five times, when he won five lottery prizes in one Cash 5 drawing, including the $163,634 jackpot. I wanted to shout, 'Hallelujah!' when I saw what I won, Lancaster said, sticking his arms in the air. I've been lucky my whole life, but I can't believe this. The Korean War veteran's good fortune started when he stopped at Wissam Brothers Inc. on Fort Run Road in his home town of Pikeville and bought a Cash 5 ticket for Mo
Sep 27, 2019, 8:33 am - Lottery News

After 20 years of playing the same lottery numbers, Delaware man wins $25,000 a year for lifeNews Story
Ever since he won $500 in the lottery 20 years ago, one 65-year-old New Castle, Delaware, man has been playing the same numbers over and over, hoping they'd pay off again. On Sept. 9, they finally did, winning him $25,000 per year for life in the Lucky for Life drawing. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, purchased the ticket at Dave's Liquors in New Castle, the state lottery office said. He matched all five numbers. I thought I was dreaming, the man said when he learned that h
Sep 15, 2019, 7:43 pm - Lottery News

From the lottery to Nobel prize: meet workers who make life-changing phone callsNews Story
For 12 years now, Anita Pires has been working at the call center for Camelot, the company that runs the UK's national lottery. She is one of a staff of 30 who answer calls from potential lottery winners, checking their numbers for prizes that range from 5 to the multi-millions. In 2009, I had one of my biggest winners, who won 45m, she says. Even I couldn't believe it. We only get an automated prompt just before they're put through; it's always very exciting. The claimants are in shock and don'
Aug 28, 2019, 9:41 am - Lottery News

Best friends of over 50 years share $2M lottery prizeNews Story
Two Canadian women who have been friends for more than five decades won a $2 million lottery prize, the British Columbia Lottery announced. Susan Hook and Martha McCallum decided to go in on a BC/49 lottery ticket together last week, and soon discovered they were $2 million richer after matching all six numbers in the August 17, 2019 draw. I was on my coffee break and decided to check the ticket, said McCallum. I thought 'what do all the zeros mean? And I went back to work, believe it or
Aug 23, 2019, 8:49 pm - Lottery News

UK Lottery's first £10k a month for life winner goes public as he reveals bucket listNews Story
A 24-year-old Amazon worker is celebrating after becoming the first person to win the National Lottery's 10,000 a month for the next 30 years. This will total to 3.6 million (US$4.4 million), and he has already quit working for the tech giant in the hopes of becoming a script writer, as well as fulfilling items on his unusual bucket list. Dean Weymes scooped the huge top prize while playing Set For Life for the first time on the national lottery website on Monday last week. He said he c
Aug 7, 2019, 2:39 pm - Lottery News

Judge bars woman's ex-girlfriend from claiming big-win NC lottery ticket as her ownNews Story
A judge has barred the ex-girlfriend of a Charlotte area woman from cashing in on the woman's big lottery ticket win. Jasmine Watkins said in a lawsuit that she won $25,000 a year for life with a Lucky for Life ticket she bought in May. But on the day she intended to collect her winnings at the NC Education Lottery office in Raleigh, her ex-girlfriend drove without her and with the winning ticket and claimed she won the prize, the lawsuit said. On Thursday, Judge Karen Eady-Williams issued
Jun 14, 2019, 7:29 am - Lottery News