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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MP Pushes Lottery Company To Find £64M Winner
September 23rd, 2012
MP for Stevenage, Stephen McPartland, is pushing Camelot to do more to find the missing £64 Million EuroMillions winner from June.
The MP called for the company to use more of the data at their disposal to trace the winner.
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Secrets Of A 3 Time Lottery Winner
September 20th, 2012
Lynne McGovern of Homer Glen, Chicago, just collected $325,000 from an $8 quick pick ticket.
But she also revealed that it was just a couple of years ago she was collecting $100,000 from a scratch-off ticket, and she had also previously won $45,000 on the Lotto.
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$10,300 From Collecting USED Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets…
September 19th, 2012
Robert Leamy has managed to win $10,300 from scratch-off tickets, without spending a dollar buying one!
His unusual strategy involves collecting used tickets, and entering them into second chance drawings.
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MegaMillions Winner: $120M Goes To Ronald Willis
September 15th, 2012
Ronald Willis has been revealed as the winner of this weeks $120 Million jackpot on Mega Millions.
He attended a press conference on Friday with his brother and fiance to support him.
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Janitor Wins $100K On Scratch-Off Ticket
September 12th, 2012
Norman Gilmore has long since been a janitor at Belfast City Hall in Maine.
And his day started just the same way as usual early on Monday morning – cleaning up City Hall (just not in the Batman sense).
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Can Forming a Trust Keep Lottery Winners Anonymous?
September 10th, 2012
When you win the lottery in some countries you get the option to go public or stay anonymous.
But that doesn’t happen everywhere. In the USA for exampe, many States require you to attend a press release, which is why we’ve had recent proposals from a lawmaker in New Jersey for at least a year of anonymity for winners.
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UK’s 8th EuroMillions Jackpot Win This Year!
September 10th, 2012
The UK have just claimed another EuroMillions jackpot, making their 8th this year so far.
Friday’s £37 Million jackpot is also one of their largest. Whilst not as big as the jumbo jackpots seen recently, it still ranks at number 14 for the UK.
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Husband Surprises Wife With Biggest Cash 5 Win Of The Year
September 7th, 2012
Dale Strickland had a very nice surprise for his wife this week.
But he didn’t tell her about his win at first.
On Sunday morning he checked his numbers – thinking he had got 4 numbers at first.
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Lotto Max Syndicate Collects $20,037,170.60 Jackpot
September 7th, 2012
The winner of the Lotto Max jackpot from 31st August has been revealed. And it’s a syndicate group from Edmonton.
Group member Paul Furlong admitted to having done the ‘happy dance’ when he learned about their win.
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27 Year Old Wins £1,944,322.90 – Plans To Move Out Of Mums House
September 4th, 2012
Remember that really unsual win on the UK Lotto – the one that paid a bigger 2nd prize than the jackpot winners got?
Well, 27 year old Oliver Milner is that winner.
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