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   From the Missouri Lottery website, Just thought these may be interesting to some here:

   

  • The three highest multistate Lottery jackpots awarded nationwide were:  $365 million (one ticket) in Powerball on Oct. 19, 2005; $363 million (split two ways) in the Big Game on May 9, 2000; and $340 million (one ticket) in Powerball on Feb. 18, 2006.
  • Currently, 215 jackpot tickets worth $1 million or more have been sold since the Missouri Lottery began 20 years ago, with more than $1.3 billion in jackpot payoffs.
  • The largest Powerball prize awarded in the state of Missouri was $224.2 million, won by a group of 13 state employees from St. Louis on April 12, 2006.
  • Forty-four co-workers at the Independence Power & Light Department shared a $5.4 Million Powerball jackpot on May 23, 1998.
  • The largest Lotto jackpot was $9.5 million cash ($19 million jackpot) won by Phillip and Margaret McClurg of St. Louis on June 10, 2000.
  • The Missouri Lottery has averaged more than 16,843 Numbers Game winners per day and awarded more than $489,242 per day!
  • An average of 5,784 players win every day playing SHOW ME 5 Paydown.
  • An average of 921 players win every day playing Pick 3.
  • Of Missouri Lottery jackpot winners, 75 percent are between the ages of 30 and 60.
  • Nearly all Missouri Lottery winners continue to play the Lottery.

  THE TYPICAL MISSOURI LOTTERY PLAYER IS:

• between the ages of 25 and 54;


• has a household income between $25,000 and $40,000;


• is a high school graduate;


• is married;


• is employed.
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• OLDEST MISSOURI LOTTERY MILLIONAIRE
    (now deceased)
  Fulton, MO
  Age 85 years, 187 days old when he won in January 1992
  $3,500,000
  Missouri Lotto
  

 WINNER TO GO THE LONGEST WITHOUT CLAIMING
  Lotto winner from Aug. 1, 1998, drawing
Claimed on May 11, 1999 - nine months and 11 days after the draw