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New Florida Lottery game 'Lucky Money' replaces Mega Money in JulyNews Story
Florida's Mega Money lottery game is ending next month, but something luckier is coming in its place. The Florida Lottery announced Monday that it will launch a new terminal game, called Lucky Money, in July. The new game is said to be an enhanced version of the Mega Money game that is ending on Tuesday, July 1. Tickets for Lucky Money will go on sale Wednesday, July 2, with the first drawing on Friday, July 4, at 11:15 p.m. The Florida Lottery continuously evaluates our games and prod
Jun 24, 2014, 8:05 am - Lottery News

NJ Pick 6 lottery drought ends as $20.1M jackpot wonNews Story
The long New Jersey Lottery Pick 6 drought is finally over. After 52 drawings and more than six months without any ticket matching all the winning numbers in the twice-weekly game, someone got lucky Monday night in Lacey, New Jersey. One ticket purchased at 7-Eleven on Lacey Road in the Forked River section of town is worth $20.1 million, lottery officials said this morning. The winning numbers were 3, 12, 18, 34, 35, and 42. There are two 7-Elevens on Lacey Road the winning ticket was
Jun 17, 2014, 3:36 pm - Lottery News

New multi-state lottery game coming to NY, NJNews Story
NY Sweet Million being canceled to make room By Todd Northrop The New York Gaming Commission on Tuesday agreed to roll out a new multi-state lottery game on June 13 that would pay the top winner $1,000 a day for life. The lotto game is called Cash For Life and it will replace the under performing Sweet Million jackpot game. Commission members voted to bring in the new lottery offering at a meeting on Tuesday in New York City. The new game would include New Jersey players, and other s
May 28, 2014, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Lucky woman buying lottery ticket narrowly escapes truck crashNews Story
Includes video report Surveillance cameras captured amazing video of a woman who barely escaped with her life when a truck crashed into a grocery store in the Park Manor, Illinois, neighborhood Friday afternoon. It happened at the Farmers Food Basket at 71st and Martin Luther King Drive. Witnesses say a Ford pickup truck hit two other vehicles in the intersection, then careened into the front of the store. The woman, who was buying lottery tickets from a vending machine near the site
Apr 21, 2014, 11:19 am - Lottery News

Store clerk's mistake helps N.Y. man win $10 millionNews Story
On Saturday, Jan. 18, 53-year-old Jerry Kajfasz went to the Depew One Stop on Broadway, his normal day-off haunt, where he bought some cigars and his favorite scratch-off New York Lottery tickets. Nothing unusual there. But the clerk mistakenly started to hand Kajfasz a $20 Win for Life Spectacular ticket. Kajfasz corrected the clerk, got the tickets he wanted and left the store. That mistake set up a series of events that led Kajfasz, his wife, Anne, and their two children, Jackie and
Feb 27, 2014, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery winner won't retireNews Story
You've just won the Oregon Lottery Win for Life game, so how do you celebrate? By dining at Marco Polo Global Restaurant, of course. That's what Shamus Harmon did last week after claiming his Win for Life prize at Oregon Lottery headquarters. I am one of the most boring lotto winners, I'm sure, he said. Or one of the smartest. Harmon, a 34-year-old safety trainer who lives in Salem, said his first plan for the windfall is to pay off his mortgage within five years. He will rece
Feb 25, 2014, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

N.J. woman wins $500 a week for life after buying lottery ticket in N.C.News Story
Mary Eisenband finds it fun to buy lottery tickets. The 82-year-old Union, New Jersey, woman never found it more enjoyable than when she bought a scratch-off lottery ticket in North Carolina in November while en route to Georgia to visit family. Eisenband turned out to be the lucky winner of that state's $500 a Week for Life game, North Carolina lottery officials announced Monday. Eisenband took home a check for $244,968 after state and federal taxes were withheld because she chose the
Jan 14, 2014, 11:53 am - Lottery News

Happy New Year!News Story
The Lottery Post staff wishes you a happy, successful, and lucky 2014!
Jan 1, 2014, 12:03 am - Lottery News

EuroMillions jackpot makes poor woman one of Ireland's richestNews Story
From struggling on 70 a week in jobseeker's allowance, Margaret Loughrey is now officially one of Ireland's richest women. But she says she will stay in her hometown despite scooping a whopping 26.9 million (US$44 million) from the EuroMillions jackpot. Margaret, or Mags as she is known to her friends, from Strabane, Co Tyrone, struck gold after hitting five numbers and two lucky stars in the November 26th Euro Millions drawing. The unemployed and single 48-year-old broke her silence ye
Dec 9, 2013, 10:01 am - Lottery News

5 greatest movies featuring a lottery winNews Story
Be honest: every time you play the lottery, the same fantasy runs through your head, of you sitting in a bath full of champagne, wearing a top hat and monocle, and throwing wads of cash into the air gleefully. Before you've even left the shop, you've spent half the money that you're almost definitely destined to win, no matter what the actual odds. Feeding this fantasy is the many, many movies that have involved lottery wins, and the results for the winners. They are invariably everyman chara
Oct 9, 2013, 2:15 pm - Lottery News