All the latest interesting lottery news. As you may have guessed, we pretty much love lottery games and are borderline obsessed with them. So we spend far too much time reading about the lottery to bring you an easy to access summary of all the most interesting lottery news stories. Enjoy :-)
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Maxmillions Makes Multiple Millionaires
April 18th, 2011
Friday night just saw the creation of a whole bunch of new millionaires with the Canada Lotto Max draw.
The jackpot had reached $90 Million, which under the MaxMillions rules means a maximum jackpot of $50 Million for the main draw.
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Big Apple Gets The Big Bucks
April 18th, 2011
Friday nights Mega Millions was won again, with the jackpot going to a ticket bought in New York.
All 5 numbers plus the Mega number were matched.
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Washington’s Latest Lottery Millionaire
April 14th, 2011
Jim paced up and down while his wife Deborah Harden checked the numbers yet again.
She’d already checked them twice, and had got Jim out of bed while she triple checked.
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‘Winners And Losers’ Hits Screens [video]
April 12th, 2011
Australias ‘most popular new drama’ series may be coming your way soon.
Winners And Losers is about four high school friends who meet up at their 10 year reunion.
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Baseball Dreams Live Thanks To Sweet Million
April 11th, 2011
It was only last month that Joel Torres dream of becoming a pro baseball player took a major hit. He got dropped from the feeder team for the Cleveland Indians.
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Missing Lancashire Millionaire Has 30 Days Left
April 11th, 2011
National Lottery officials were hunting for a millionaire in Blackburn, Lancashire on Friday.
The lucky ticket holder has yet to come forward, but now only has 30 days left to claim their prize.
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Two Kiwis Share Record Prize
April 10th, 2011
The record Powerball prize was shared between two winning tickets on Saturday night.
Each ticket will collect $17,612,427 – half of the total jackpot prize of $35,224,854.
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Mum Gets A Bungalow While I Travel The World
April 6th, 2011
Last Saturday he was a temporary machine operator scraping by on just £210 per week.
By Sunday his life had completely changed and he found himself £2,388,987 richer.
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$45 Million Unclaimed Lottery Prizes In Wisconsin
April 5th, 2011
Double check those old tickets Wisconsin – because there are over $45 Million of lottery prizes left unclaimed.
Most of the prizes are for smaller amounts, but there are big prizes too such as a $1 Million winning Powerball ticket which was sold in Racine County back in August 2009.
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Winners Ship Comes In At Port Hope
April 5th, 2011
Another lucky St Patricks day winner, Valerie Deziel, was shocked to discover she was the second prize winner in the Canda Lotto 6/49.
She told the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation:
I literally ran all the way home.
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