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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 :-)

Air Force Base Split $1M Win In Idaho

September 3rd, 2012

Air Force Base workers at Hill AFB in Boise, Idaho have just been awarded a $1 Million win on the Powerball.

The syndicate group of 9 are all with 75th Medical at the base, and won the prize from the draw made on 25th August.

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UK Lotto 2nd Prize Beats Jackpot

September 3rd, 2012

In a particularly unusual draw result on Saturday, for the 2nd prize winner at least, the UK Lotto is about to pay out less to the jackpot winner than to the Match 5 plus Bonus Ball prize.

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Donald Lawson, 44, Wins $337M Powerball Prize

September 3rd, 2012

He just claimed the 3rd largest prize ever in the history of the US Powerball.

But Donald says he will go to McDonald’s as he prefers the simple life.

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Manhattan Infiniti Dealership Hit $1 Million Powerball Win

September 3rd, 2012

A syndicate of 22 workers from the 11th Avenue Infiniti dealership in Manhattan have struck lucky on Powerball.

The group have been playing $10 a week on Powerball for some time, before luck finally paid them a visit.

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Mystery $52 Million Winner Found [video]

September 3rd, 2012

The mystery winner of that unclaimed $52 Million Mega Millions prize from July has been found.

Bladimir Agnite was completely oblivious to the win despite the lottery company having released a photo of the winner buying his ticket in order to try and track him down.

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Store Owner Shares Win With Employee

September 2nd, 2012

Ronnie Dingler entered a second chance drawing last week, and was stunned to be told he had won the $20,000 prize.

But rather than spend the win on himself, Ronnie decided to split the prize with his cashier Ana Flores, to help her out with college fees.

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New York Syndicate Share $1 Million Win

September 1st, 2012

The group of 8 players from New York won $1 Million with a ticket they didn’t even buy themselves.

In a promotion, the group had received a single bonus Quick Pick ticket for spending $10 on Powerball tickets.

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Mexican Lottery Officials Hit With Big Fines For Trying To Fix Lottery

August 30th, 2012

Fixing a lottery is extremely difficult to do. There are a lot of controls and measures in place to stop exactly that.

As 8 officials from the Mexican lottery discovered, at a cost of $13.7 Million in fines.

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98 Winners Share Florida Fantasy 5 Jackpot

August 30th, 2012

It has to be a good day when your lottery ticket hits the jackpot doesn’t it?

Well, it could be a better day for the 98 people who will discover today that they’ve just won one of the worst ever jackpots on the Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 game.

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Win The Beijing Lottery And You Get Permission To Buy A Car…

August 28th, 2012

Winning the lottery would be a life changing event for most of us, but the Beijing license lottery is not quite as life changing as you might hope.

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