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 From De Queen Wins Powerball $2 Million
January 8th, 2013
Sherry Miller is the latest winner to come forward to claim her Powerball winnings.
Using the Power Play option Sherry doubled the usual $1 Million win for matching the 5 main balls up to a much nicer $2 Million.
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£1 Million Jackpot Still Unclaimed In Bristol
January 8th, 2013
If you bought a UK Lotto ticket in Bristol for the Wednesday draw on December 12th – make sure you check your ticket now.
The winner has still not come forward and there is a jackpot of £1,050,547 waiting for them.
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7-Eleven Stop Pays Larry $1 Million
January 7th, 2013
It was a brief stop for Larry King from Canton at his local Washington Street 7-Eleven.
But it turned out to be a great start to his New Year.
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Record Jackpot For Pensioner Of 83 In Bulgaria
January 6th, 2013
Bulgaria’s largest ever lottery jackpot has been won by 2 ticket holders.
The jackpot of BGN 9.5M, about US$6.3M, was a record for the Toto 2 – a popular 6 from 49 game in Bulgaria.
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Linda’s Normal Ticket Was Sold Out, So Her Husband Got Her One Worth $3M Instead
January 6th, 2013
Linda Metzger normally buys a $20 scratch off ticket, but when her husband Larry arrived at the store he discovered they had sold out of her favourite ticket.
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Two New Lottery Millionaires For Wisconsin
January 5th, 2013
Well, millionaires for 5 minutes at least as the tax office does of course step in and relieve US winners of a significant percentage of their prizes.
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Dad Scratches Christmas Jackpot Thanks To His Son’s Present
January 4th, 2013
Rob Hoover buys his dad some scratch off lottery tickets for Christmas every year.
And this year he treated him to 10 ‘Carolina Black’ tickets.
Dad, Eddie, says he often dreams of winning the lottery – but this time his dream came true when one of the tickets turned out to be a $100,000 winner.
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£1M Boxing Day Birthday Present From EuroMillions
January 4th, 2013
Christmas Day created 25 new millionaires with a UK EuroMillions special draw.
And one of those has been revealed as Andrew Garth, 29, from Middlesbrough.
Andrew was actually hosting his boxing day birthday when he checked his ticket and discovered the fantastic news.
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Youngest Ever ‘Montana Millionaire’ Winner Claims $1 Million
January 4th, 2013
At just 23 years old Sam Polesky is now Montanas youngest ever winner of the Montana Millionaire draw.
He was the lucky ticket holder drawn from 130,000 tickets sold.
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$200,000 Win Playing Minnesota Neon 10s
January 3rd, 2013
Elizabeth Lee just claimed a nice check for $200,000 after scratching her big win with a $10 scratch card called Neon 10’s.
She thought she had only won $200, but was glad she checked closer and was shocked to discover it was $200,000 instead!
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