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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Woman Wins $1 Million After Moving To New House
August 6th, 2013
Sneh Padarat bought a Western Max ticket for the May 3 draw at a Mac’s store the same weekend she moved. She buys tickets and never thinks she will actually win, so she just kept the ticket with some of her papers.
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Engineer Lands £1 Million Euromillions Jackpot
August 6th, 2013
A mechanical engineer who regularly plays Lotto and Euromillions has finally hit a big jackpot. Steve Hargreaves of Blackburn, won £1 million in the EuroMillions Millionaires’ Raffle.
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Search For Breath Mints Lead To Fresh Cash
August 6th, 2013
When blessings are headed your way, it will hitch a ride on anything to get to you – even breath mints. That is what retiree Laurence Goldwater found when a 6/49 ticket he had bought at a store where he stopped to get breath mints for his wife won a jackpot worth $11,062,889.80.
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Second Member Of ‘Lucky’ Social Club Wins A Million
August 5th, 2013
A second member of the Guest Keen Memorial Social and Bowls Club in Merthyr Tydfil has just won a million pounds just two years after one of them won the same amount in the Euromillions Millionaires’ Raffle.
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Teen Wins A Million Pounds With Her First Euromillions Ticket
August 5th, 2013
Some people are just plain lucky, no other way to say it. Jane Park, from Midlothian, managed to win the Millionaires Raffle jackpot with her very first EuroMillions ticket on Friday, July 26 at the tender age of 17.
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Last Week’s Top Stories
August 5th, 2013
When most winners try to remain anonymous, one ‘techie’ grandmother has announced her win via facebook! A lucky couple manages to recover a winning ticket from the trash, and Kentucky lottery error results in windfall for bettors as officials pay winners of extra draw.
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Great Gran Proves It Is Never Too Late To Win
August 5th, 2013
Jennifer Hancocks has been betting on the National Lottery ever since it started, and had never won anything big – until now that is! The mother of four, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of one, has just won £1 million.
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Techie Grandma Tells The World About Her Win Via Facebook
August 4th, 2013
Trish Williams and her husband Keith have won a million in the Euromillions Lottery and all of her friends know about it. While many winners try to keep their win secret, the techie granny who works as a school secretary announced the blessing she received for all the world to see via Facebook.
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DC May Run Out Of Scratch-Offs Before The Year Ends
August 3rd, 2013
D.C. Lottery is in a bind. Their supply of the most popular form of lottery, the scratch-off tickets, are disappearing fast.
The problem is caused by the failure of current supplier Scientific Games to comply with a DC requirement that contractors from outside the state hire local minority contractors to do at least 35% of the work.
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Luck Multiplied By Twelve Secret To Big Jackpot
August 3rd, 2013
Connie Baumer has been betting on the Idaho lottery for twenty years without much success. When a co-worker at a Wyoming hospital suggested she try increasing her winning chances by joining a group, she accepted.
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