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How Does a Lottery Syndicate Work?

May 11th, 2012

A good lottery syndicate will give you a much better chance of winning, and still give you a big enough share of the prize. So how does a lottery syndicate work?

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Category: Lottery Questions

Dave Dawes EuroMillions Email Scam

February 8th, 2012

I know there’s a new one every day, and this one is barely more plausible than most of them. But people are falling for it. So here goes another lottery scam warning. If you, or anyone you know, receives an email from Dave Dawes (the big £101 Million EuroMillions winner from 2011) don’t believe a [...]

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Category: EuroMillions Lottery · Lottery Losers

Odds Of Winning The Powerball Grand Prize Improved..?

January 26th, 2012

Most players in the USA will now be aware that the 2012 changes to the Powerball have been put in place. The marketing has been telling us all how the Powerball is now easier to win, because that’s what we wanted. And of course that the minimum grand prize has been increased from $20 Million [...]

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Category: Lottery Questions · Powerball Lottery

Pro Cage Fighter Wins Lottery & Buys Lamborghini Spyder

January 18th, 2012

Wales is generally not the first place you think of as the home of pro cage fighting. But that’s where new EuroMillions millionaire Gavin Davies lives, in Neath, South Wales. Gavin, 29, didn’t even realise he had won until 2 weeks after the 27th December draw – as he forgot to check the extra raffle [...]

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Category: EuroMillions Lottery · Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners

Mega Millions Winner Banks $101 Million – “I Just Tried Not To Faint”

January 14th, 2012

Daniel Bruckner only played the Mega Millions occasionally. But with a headline jackpot of $206 Million he figured it was worth risking a few dollars. The 35 year old financial analyst has now been revealed as the official sole jackpot winner of the Mega Millions draw for 27th December. Which means that after taxes he [...]

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Category: Lottery Winners · Mega Millions Lottery

Teen Lottery Winner Scoops UK Jackpot

January 12th, 2012

It must be every generation Y teenagers dream, to start life out by just casually winning the lottery. The rest of us know that life just doesn’t come that easy. But it has for Eloise Hutchinson who has just been revealed as one of the three UK Lotto winners from the draw held on New [...]

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Category: Lottery Winners · Quick Pick Winners · UK Lotto

Sorry, Your Lottery Winnings Check Has Bounced!

January 9th, 2012

It was an embarassing week for the Illinois lottery, when winners started complaining that their winnings checks were not being honoured by the bank! In all 85 winners with winnings totalling over $159,000 were affected. The Illinois Lottery were quick to point out that the checks had not actually bounced, because there were sufficient funds [...]

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Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners

$12 Million Jackpot Winners Hit Lucky A Second Time

January 9th, 2012

It was less than a year ago the syndicate of 16 workers from Montebello Unified School District won $12 Million on the Lotto. And they just struck it lucky again, this time from playing Mega Millions. They aren’t celebrating quite as loudly this time around however. After all, the group only won $262,743 this time. [...]

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Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Syndicate Winners · Lottery Winners · Mega Millions Lottery

That’s One Hot Lottery Ticket

January 5th, 2012

Kathleen Crewe kept her winning lottery ticket in what she thought was a very safe place. Being somewhat more careful than many lottery players, she not only tucked her ticket safely inside a thermos flask. But then went on to put the thermos flask inside a flame proof bag! The ticket was worth $7 Million. [...]

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Category: Funny Crazy Lottery Stories · Lottery Winners

Winner Throws Away $77 Million Powerball Jackpot

December 28th, 2011

The US Powerball is a very hard game to win. The odds are a pretty horrendous 1 in 195,249,054. Let’s call it 1 in 195 Million for ease of thinking. Pretty poor when you consider a more regular 6 balls from 49 draw has odds of 1 in 13 Million. That means you have to [...]

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Category: Lottery Losers · Powerball Lottery