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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 :-)

Minnesota Powerball Winners Thankful They Can Now Retire

August 14th, 2011

Retirement was not looking promising when they met their financial advisor last week.

minnesota powerball winnersBut now the latest Minnesota Powerball winners, Thomas and Kathleen Morris, have a new appointment with their advisor.

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Ottawa Workers Lose Jobs Then Win $7M Jackpot

August 12th, 2011

The news is bad enough when redundancies are rumoured, but Ottawa manufacturer Smart Technologies had just announced the plant was closing and jobs would go.

Things took a rapid turn for the better however for a syndicate group of 18 workers from the plant.

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Broke Lottery Winner Jailed For Violating Probation

August 11th, 2011

Winning the lottery never automatically makes everything in life suddenly go smoothly.

Alissia Rivenburgh, 34, hit the jackpot 5 years ago with a $1 Million dollar lottery win.

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Ohio Syndicate Wins $99M Mega Millions Jackpot

August 10th, 2011

A syndicate of 22 workers from the KraftMaid factory in Jefferson, Ashtabula County have now claimed their $99 Million win on Friday’s Mega Millions.

The group appeared at the headquarters of the Ohio Lottery in Youngstown on Monday.

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Finally, A Syndicate For Players In The USA!

August 5th, 2011

Lotery syndicates are very thin on the ground in the USA.

Most of those that did exist got scared and closed down when the US Government introduced a bill designed to clamp down on online gambling.

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You’ve Won a Jaguar XK Convertible – Oops, No You Haven’t!

August 3rd, 2011

The Irish National Lottery have come under fire this week, after a glitch was revealed on their website.

Hundreds of players checking their lottery results online for last Wednesday’s draw were told they had won a brand new Jaguar XK convertible, worth €150,000!

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Canadian Lottery Pool Share Lotto Max Jackpot

August 1st, 2011

A lottery pool from Toronto in Canada are celebrating claiming the Lotto Max jackpot from 22nd July.

Lotto Max is the newest lottery game in Canada, it aims to create more jackpot winners.

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Record Cash 5 Jackpot Winner

July 29th, 2011

Scanning his third Cash 5 ticket into the lottery machine, Ronald Flickinger was not exactly overwhelmed when it said ‘You won $1’.

His first two tickets were losers.

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New Fangled iPhone Revealed Lottery Jackpot Win

July 28th, 2011

Chris Bowers, 61, just bought himself a new iPhone – he loves a good gadget.

So like every new iPhone owner, he has spent many happy hours downloading lots of extremely useful apps to while away the time…

Now the lottery app he downloaded didn’t help him pick his numbers, but it did check the Saturday night UK Lotto results for him:

We put the numbers in to check them, and you get little red dots or a green tick.

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I’ve Gotta Kiss Her – It’s Her Name On The Winners Check!

July 26th, 2011

Ernie Stephens, 63, smiled and kissed his wife, Judy, 56, for the cameras at the Missouri Lottery news conference. He joked:

I’ve gotta kiss her. Her name’s on the check.

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