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Valencia flood victims among winners of Spain's annual €2.7 billion El Gordo lottery drawingNews Story
By Kate Northrop Spain's legendary annual El Gordo, which translates to The Fat One, has once again captivated the nation with millions of viewers glued to their screens for the annual event that handed out 2.7 billion (US$2.8 billion) in prize money. Several residents of flood-ravaged Valencia were among this year's El Gordo winners, bringing a ray of hope to a community still recovering from devastating floods. With an incredible prize pool of 2.7 billion, winners across Spain have
Dec 24, 2024, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery Pick 4 draws same numbers two drawings in a rowNews Story
Rare occurrence in popular draw game By Kate Northrop Whoever won in an Ohio Lottery Pick 4 drawing last week had a chance to win again using the same numbers, with two drawings in a row producing the same results. Two Pick 4 drawings produced the same number combinations back-to-back in Ohio last week. On Oct. 2, the Ohio Pick 4 evening game drew the numbers 6-9-9-4. Players matching those numbers with a $1 wager in exact order won a $5,000 prize. The very next drawing, the
Oct 10, 2024, 7:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball drawing for $223 million lottery jackpot will not be broadcast due to Hurricane HeleneNews Story
Drawing location will move to backup site in Iowa By Kate Northrop Tonight's Powerball drawing for the $223 million lottery jackpot will not take place at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee as usual, nor will it be broadcast live due to Hurricane Helene. With the closure of the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee, tonight's Powerball and Double Play drawings will take place at a backup site in Johnston, Iowa. The drawings will still occur at the usual 10:59 p.m
Sep 25, 2024, 5:02 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery moves draw studio and discontinues live drawingsNews Story
Drawings to move exclusively online for viewing on the web By Kate Northrop The Connecticut Lottery announced that it is relocating its draw studio and that drawings will no longer be aired on live television. Connecticut Lottery drawings will be exclusively viewable online starting this month following a relocation of the draw studio, a press release from the Lottery revealed. In August, the Connecticut Lottery completed a move to its new Wallingford headquarters , about a 30-mi
Jul 12, 2024, 6:51 am - Lottery News

Technical difficulty with New Jersey Lottery Pick 4 drawing results in two sets of winning numbersNews Story
Physical error causes incomplete draw By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery had to conduct a second Pick 4 evening drawing last night after a mechanical problem caused the first draw to fail, the Lottery announced today. A technical error involving the New Jersey Lottery's ball drawing machine led to an incomplete draw in the Pick 4 evening drawing on Thurs., March 14. All of the balls did not release into the chamber of the drawing machine before the winning numbers were sele
Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina woman collapses on live TV after becoming first Powerball millionaire of the yearNews Story
New Year's Eve celebration is overwhelming with million-dollar lottery win By Kate Northrop The North Carolina winner of the Powerball First Millionaire of the Year drawing collapsed on the ground immediately upon finding out she won a million-dollar lottery prize on live television. The world watched as North Carolina resident Pamela Bradshaw fell over in disbelief, struggling to come to terms with the overwhelming excitement of becoming the first millionaire of 2024 with everyone w
Jan 1, 2024, 7:13 pm - Lottery News

Spain's El Gordo dishes out €2.6 billion in annual Christmas lotteryNews Story
Winning numbers announced during event that lasted four hours By Kate Northrop Millions of households have been tuning in to watch El Gordo (The Fat One), the world-famous lottery that doles out over two billion in prizes every year. This year, the lottery is distributing a whopping 2.6 billion (US$2.86 billion) in prizes to winners across the country. It's not uncommon to see people rushing out into the street and erupting in celebration as the event progresses, perhaps popping a bo
Dec 22, 2023, 12:20 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball resultsNews Story
Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings. Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the
Nov 30, 2023, 9:12 pm - Lottery News

VIDEO: We think these are the best lottery drawingsNews Story
You've heard us talk about how bad computerized drawings are now here is our favorite real lottery drawing By Kate Northrop Today, Lottery Post published a video on what we think are the best lottery drawings we've seen so far. If you know Lottery Post, you know we strongly dislike computerized drawings, so much so that we made a video on it and started a petition for true lottery drawings years ago that is still garnering signatures today. Recently, the German Lottery retired th
Feb 9, 2023, 1:38 pm - Lottery News

Minnesota Lottery confirms technical communications error delayed $2 billion Powerball drawingNews Story
Lottery staff and vendors overloaded by sales data By Kate Northrop The Minnesota Lottery confirmed yesterday that the cause for the delayed $2 billion Powerball drawing was a technical communications error brought on by an overwhelming amount of sales data. If you recall the Powerball fever that took over the nation this past week, you'll also remember the ten-hour delay before the drawing took place. When the drawing did finally occur Tuesday morning, it turns out that just one
Nov 11, 2022, 4:03 pm - Lottery News