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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Record-Setting US$78.8 Million Jackpot Won In Taiwan Lottery
July 21st, 2013
The Taiwan Lottery company announced that the highest jackpot ever in Taiwan’s history worth NT$2.36 billion (US$78.8 million) has been won by a single person. The winner came from Taoyuan County.
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Ronnie Jackson Wins a Million From 20x The Money Game
July 21st, 2013
Lottery player Ronnie Jackson was not content to win $40 from the Extreme Green game, so he went back to the store and bought a 20x The Money ticket.
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Couple Wins $289000 Fantasy Five Jackpot
July 20th, 2013
Marina Olegue and her husband won a $289,471 jackpot from the state lottery’s Fantasy 5 game. The couple wisely stated that their first priority is paying off their car loans.
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Woman Wins £281K Euromillions Prize
July 20th, 2013
Former co-op worker Rita Jarvis, has won £281,000 on the Euromillions lottery. Now she plans to buy the home she and her husband have always dreamed of.
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Bowler Strikes A Million Dollar Jackpot
July 19th, 2013
Bowler Wayne Johnson purchased a million dollar winning lottery ticket at the bowling alley where he plays.
Johnson credits the win to a routine he follows every other Friday, when he usually grabs a cheeseburger for lunch and compares winning tickets with another lottery player.
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Rock Hill Man’s Win Proves Persistence Pays
July 19th, 2013
Wylie Craig has been buying entries to the South Carolina Education Lottery scratch-off games for more than ten years; in fact he had been placing bets since the $5 scratch-offs were sold in 2002.
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David & Dawn Brown Win £1 Million
July 19th, 2013
David and Dawn Brown, from Penkridge, have won £1 million in the EuroMillions Millionaire’s Raffle last Tuesday.
A shift supervisor at a steel factory, David was having breakfast when he checked the numbers through his phone.
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Lottery Winner From The June 29 Draw Has Not Come Forward
July 18th, 2013
The National Lottery announced that the winner of a £6 Million jackpot on the June 29th draw has not come forward to claim the prize. The winning ticket was sold in Rhondda Cynon Taf, and the National Lottery is asking everyone to check old tickets.
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Former Lottery Winner Happy To Be Broke Ten Years On
July 18th, 2013
Callie Rogers name was entered into the record books as Britain’s youngest lottery winner after she posted a £1.9million win in 2003, at the tender age of 16.
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O’Neill Resigns As California State Lottery Director
July 17th, 2013
California Lottery Director Robert O’Neill has resigned his position less than two years after his appointment. This is the third change in leadership of the California Lottery under the second term of Gov.
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