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Luck pays off for a whole lot of Maryland Lottery playersNews Story
Lottery players sometimes prove a quirky and superstitious bunch, picking their numbers on sentimental value (a birthday, anniversary or just plain lucky number) and loyally playing the same game, using the same numbers, at the same store. But would one person play a favorite set of numbers in the same game 15 times in a single day? An oddity to be sure, lottery officials say but not unheard of. And that is their best guess about what happened in Saturday's Bonus Match 5 game which y
Dec 28, 2006, 1:22 am - Lottery News

Lottery pool loses $36 million jackpot; wrong tickets boughtNews Story
Members of a Belgian lottery pool who thought they had won 27 million euros (US$35.8 million) were devastated when they found the wrong numbers had been entered. The group of 30 from Mouscron, south-west of Brussels, had been using the same numbers to enter the Euro Millions jackpot for weeks. Members of the syndicate started to celebrate when their numbers came up in Friday's draw, reports the BBC. However, the person in charge of buying the ticket had allowed the machine to choose Qui
Dec 11, 2006, 7:13 am - Lottery News

Lottery 'joke' wins man fine, year probationNews Story
James A. Koons Jr.'s practical joke backfired in a big way. According to his attorney, the Hegins man thought it would be funny to fake a $853,496 winning Powerball ticket and leave it underneath a newspaper in the break room at the Roadway Express terminal in Middlesex Twp. Instead of a laugh, Koons and an unwitting co-worker ended up in a legal mess. Yesterday, Cumberland County President Judge Edgar B. Bayley sentenced Koons, 38, to 12 months of probation and fined him $2,500 for
Dec 6, 2006, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Ohio lottery numbers same as game scoreNews Story
Ohio State's 42-39 victory over Michigan also was lucky for players of the Ohio Lottery. Minutes after Saturday's game was over, the numbers 4-2-3-9 were drawn for the Pick 4 game. You know it happens, lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said Sunday. Bettors can play the game in a variety of ways. Anyone who played $1 and picked the 4-2-3-9 combination in order won $5,000. The odds of the numbers turning up in that combination were 10,000 to 1. The lottery paid a total of $2.19 milli
Nov 19, 2006, 6:22 pm - Lottery News

UK Lottery's most unlucky number: 13News Story
The number 13 is the unluckiest ball in the National Lottery, according to records of organizers of the numbers' game in the U.K. According to Camelot, the organizer of the lotto game in Britain, in the 12 years that the game was launched in the U.K., the number 13 has been drawn only 132 times. Comparatively, the luckiest balls were 38, 25 and 31 which have been drawn a good number of times. The number 38 has been drawn a total of 199 times, 25 has been drawn 186 times and 31 a total of
Nov 14, 2006, 8:45 am - Lottery News

Wife Orders Hit on Russian Lottery WinnerNews Story
An angry Russian woman from the small town in the Caucasus hired a criminal to kill her ex-husband who had won a million rubles in a lottery, the News.ru website reported Friday. 48-year-old retired military officer Alexei Rykov had bought just one lottery ticket as a present for his own birthday and the ticket proved to be lucky the man won one million rubles (about $37,000). He used the money to buy an apartment (until then the family was renting) and a car. After a while his wife Irin
Nov 3, 2006, 8:54 am - Lottery News

'The dog ate my lottery ticket'News Story
With the largest Powerball jackpot ever won in Iowa, there were several ticket-holders who had wishful thinking. The Iowa Lottery said Wednesday that since the winning numbers were drawn it has been flooded with callers trying to explain why they were winners but could not produce their winning ticket. We had already validated the ticket. I was still receiving phone calls saying, 'Are you sure that is their ticket. Are you sure that's the winning ticket?' said the Iowa Lottery's Tina Po
Oct 6, 2006, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Canadian woman wins lotto twiceNews Story
Beating 'astounding' odds, Toronto senior held two of three winning tickets in $24M jackpot With luck like hers, Mary Wollens should buy a lottery ticket or two. In what's being described as an unprecedented win in Lotto 6/49 history, 86-year-old Wollens held two of three winning tickets in the Sept. 30 draw, scoring her a windfall of $16 million. The Etobicoke woman credited a prophetic dream for the windfall, saying she saw the winning numbers in her sleep. I was lying in bed
Oct 6, 2006, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Lottery addict screams at judge, 'prison won't help'News Story
A sobbing lottery addict convicted of stealing $2.3 million from her employer to fund her habit screamed at the judge that prison won't cure her. Tell me how you're helping me! Annie Donnelly of Farmingville yelled at state Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle during her sentencing Tuesday. Donnelly pleaded guilty last month to second-degree grand larceny in exchange for the sentence of four to 12 years in prison. The former bookkeeper for a doctors' office admitted she stole the mon
Sep 27, 2006, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Powerball lottery winners worry what their preacher will thinkNews Story
Can winning nearly a million dollars in the lottery be a bad thing? Strangely, for Donald and Danette Sigmon the answer is apparently, yes. On July 26, Donald won $800,000 in the Powerball Lottery after accurately choosing five winning numbers. The Sigmons went to Raleigh to claim their prize. Ever since, they have worried over the fact that playing the lottery might have shamed them. They say they have been shunned and ridiculed and aren't entirely proud of having played. They're so u
Sep 5, 2006, 12:03 pm - Lottery News