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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Biggest Ever Lotto Max Winners Claim $40 Million
September 1st, 2011
John and Darlene Kinzel have come forward as the winners of the $40 Million Lotto Max draw from Friday 19th August.
The couple, from Paradise Hill, a small village in Saskatchewan, claimed their big win on Friday.
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Same Lottery Numbers For 36 Years But Finally We Won
August 31st, 2011
An unnamed couple just collected $10 Million on the Australian Powerball. They knew pretty quickly they had won on checking the numbers – as they’d been playing the same numbers for over 36 years!
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21 Year Old Wins $3.5 Million On Lotto 649
August 30th, 2011
Possibly one of the most unusually named recent lottery winners, Kricket Slik of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada just hit the jackpot with a win of $3,489,606.80 on the Canada Lotto 649.
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Vietnam Veteran Scratches A Million
August 29th, 2011
The first big winner in the ‘Right On The Money’ game from the Virginia Lottery has been announced.
Thomas Wurtz from Christiansburg is a Vietnam war veteran.
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New York Family ‘Set For Life’
August 25th, 2011
Michael Rowinski, 64, and a family man, took just an instant to decide what to do with his lottery winnings – share it with the family.
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Laid Off Dad Is $32M Mega Millions Winner
August 24th, 2011
The latest Mega Millions winner has now come forward, in Boston.
Candido Oliveria, 47 and a father of 2, has just been announced as the winner of the jackpot from Friday 19th August.
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Irish Millionaires First Thought For Charity
August 23rd, 2011
Maire McKibbin and her family syndicate of 6, just won a cool £1,134,307 on the UK Lotto.
But once the money is divided up, Maire intends to give most of it away to 2 charities she supports.
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Canadian Lottery Winners Give Their Jackpot Away
August 19th, 2011
Lottery winners Allen and Violet Large struck it rich with a win of $11,255,272 on the Canada Lottery.
But after finding the money more of a headache than a blessing, the couple who are both in their 70’s, gave it all away.
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Thurso Housewife Wins £250,000 From Scratch Card
August 18th, 2011
Sandra Swanson, 48, tried to tell her husband she had won £250,000 on a National Lottery scratch card.
But he was engrossed in a game of Nintendo golf with his brother.
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Gateshead Syndicate Turn £16 Win Into £54,777
August 17th, 2011
The syndicate of 25 people from a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle dealers in Gateshead normally only play the Friday draw.
But this week they decided to use their £16 win from the previous Friday, 29th July, to buy 8 lucky dips in the Tuesday EuroMillions draw.
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