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Tonight's Powerball drawing offering massive $747 million jackpot
9th-largest US lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After a 33rd-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 Saturday's $704.4 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a staggering $747 million for Monday's drawing the 9th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time. But since most winners choose the
Feb 6, 2023, 10:36 am - Lottery News

Two $31 million Mega Millions lottery jackpots won in Massachusetts in one week
Same jackpot amount won in the same state on two consecutive Tuesdays By Kate Northrop In just one week, two Mega Millions lottery jackpots both valued at $31 million were won in Massachusetts. There's something in the water in Massachusetts, where a lottery player won a $31 million Mega Millions jackpot just one week after another player in the state won a jackpot of the same value. On Tuesday, Jan. 24, one ticket won the $31 million jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions game
Feb 1, 2023, 4:38 pm - Lottery News

VIDEO: What we know about the $1.35 billion Mega Millions winner from Maine
Lottery Post launches new Weekly Roundup series on YouTube By Kate Northrop Today, Lottery Post is launching a new Weekly Roundup series on YouTube, with the first iteration featuring a video on what we know so far about the $1.35 billion Mega Millions winner from Maine. Lottery Post's new Weekly Roundup series on YouTube breaks down all the latest stories, game changes, and most important moments so you can stay up-to-date and in-the-know about everything happening in the lottery wo
Jan 19, 2023, 4:22 pm - Lottery News

One ticket sold in Maine wins $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot
Updated with final jackpot amount and cash value By Todd Northrop Friday the 13th was the luckiest day in the life of someone in Maine who purchase a lottery ticket that won a staggering $1.348 billion last night. After a run of 25 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 26th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.348 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Maine matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. The whopping jackpot is the
Jan 14, 2023, 8:22 am - Lottery News

$1.35 BILLION: Mega Millions jackpot set to deliver unimaginable wealth
Dodges popular birthday numbers to become fourth-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After 25 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a cresting jackpot of $1.35 billion that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. To get to this point, the game had to survive a drawing in which all birthday numbers were drawn. Birthday numbers are those less than 31, and lotteries typically sell an outsiz
Jan 11, 2023, 7:14 am - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Tuesday
5th-largest lottery jackpot in world history Cash value is $568.7 million By Todd Northrop For the fourth time in the past two years a lottery jackpot has crossed into billion-dollar territory. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Tuesday jackpot estimated at $1.1 billion with a cash value of $568.7 million. Based on past multi-state lottery jackpots, that estimate may get a lot bigger by the t
Jan 7, 2023, 6:56 am - Lottery News

Group of 78 emergency room staff members claim $1 million Powerball prize
By Kate Northrop A 78-member lottery group consisting of nurses, doctors, and other emergency room personnel from Traverse City, Michigan have claimed a $1 million Powerball prize. On Thursday, the Michigan Lottery held a press event to award The Heroes to Zeroooos Lottery Club with their $1 million Powerball prize after they matched all five white balls in the Oct. 31, 2022 drawing. According to lottery club coordinator, Bernard Bossert Jr., the club has been buying tickets for abou
Jan 6, 2023, 12:49 pm - Lottery News

$940 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot ready to make another billionaire
Cash value worth nearly a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop Just four months after Mega Millions delivered a $1.34 billion jackpot to one ticket sold in Illinois, the multi-state lottery game came roaring back with a jackpot to be drawn Friday that could top $1 billion. When nobody won Tuesday night's $785 million grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $940 million the largest since a July 30, 2022 $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot was claimed anonymously b
Jan 4, 2023, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Two winning $1 million Mega Millions tickets sold in Texas set to expire in a month
Two second-tier prizes soon to expire, Lotto Texas jackpot hits highest amount this year By Kate Northrop There are two second-tier Mega Millions prizes worth $1 million each that will expire in just over a month if no one steps forward to claim them. Two winning tickets worth $1 million each, both Quick Picks, are still out there somewhere in Texas, waiting to be cashed in. Both Mega Millions tickets matched the white ball numbers drawn on July 29, 2022, which were 13, 36, 45, 5
Dec 15, 2022, 6:44 am - Lottery News

One lottery ticket sold in California wins $2 billion Powerball jackpot
Lump-sum cash option worth $997.6 million By Todd Northrop Around the United States, millions of people had to wait an extra ten 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 Tuesday morning, it turns out that just one ticket sold in California matched all six numbers drawn and won the entire jackpot. After all sales we
Nov 8, 2022, 1:00 pm - Lottery News