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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 :-)

JP Beautician Wins $50,000 Per Year For Life

February 1st, 2013

Fredda Raimondi gave the Massachusetts Lifetime ‘Spectacular’ game a shot.

And despite the $20 ticket price, she was very glad she did. As her next biggest decision was whether to take the $50,000 as a yearly payment – or to grab the lump sum alternative of $650,000.

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Florida’s ‘Millionaire’ Game Creates Another One

January 31st, 2013

Remember Florida’s most expensive lottery ticket?

Well we have a winner, in the shape of Herbert Hudson, 53, of St. Augustine.

He bought the $25 ticket at a Kangaroo Express, and has just claimed the lump sum payment of $819,000 for his big win.

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10 Iowa Lottery Winners Head To Vegas In A ‘Winter of Winners’

January 30th, 2013

The final drawing in the Iowa Lottery “Winter of Winners” has been drawn, with 10 lucky players now heading for a luxury break in Las Vegas.

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Mercedes Benz Lottery Ad

January 30th, 2013

Lottery playing car fans will love this new Mercedes advert.

It’s for the new Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, and I think it’s safe to say it will be appearing on more than a few lottery winners ‘must have’ lists.

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Single Quick Pick Pays Off With $7.25 Million Win

January 30th, 2013

She had played the same single quick pick ticket for many years, but this time it came up lucky.

Ancelma Martinez almost squirted coffee out of her nose when she discovered her win in the local paper over breakfast with her husband.

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The Millionaires Just Keep Coming For EuroMillions

January 29th, 2013

John Baxter from Baldock joins the ever growing list of new millionaires created by the UK’s Millionaires Raffle game.

With 50 new millionaires created just by the Christmas Day and New Years Day draws he’s in very good company.

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Tough Choice: $1,000 Per Week For Life, Or $760,000 In Your Pocket Now

January 29th, 2013

It’s a tough choice to have to make – but one that most of us would quite like to have to wrangle with.

Max Weindel, aged 30, had to wrestle with that choice after winning the top prize on the Missouri Lottery’s “$1,000 A Week For Life” scratch card.

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New Home For Us – And One For My Best Mate

January 29th, 2013

Like most winners Matt and Cassey Topham, both just 23 years old, treated themselves to a new home.

They could certainly afford to, having just won a £45 Million jackpot on the EuroMillions lottery.

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Worst Kept Secret: The Richest Man In Chester

January 28th, 2013

Officially he’s anonymous.

But there are more than enough rumours to help figure out who the $2 Million lottery winner in Chester is. After all, it’s a small community, and everybody knows the store where the winning ticket was bought.

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Syndicate Sold Wrong Tickets – But Won £151,000

January 28th, 2013

Andrew Brown was responsible for buying the syndicates lottery tickets that week.

But having got back to work he realised the 40 quick pick tickets he’d been sold were for the wrong day.

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