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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Hoosier Man Wins $74M On Powerball
May 2nd, 2011
The odds may be a fairly awful 1-in-195 million of winning, but someone always wins eventually.
And this time Bill Swanson is the lucky man from Hoosier.
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Dad Gives Winning Lottery Ticket To Daughter
May 2nd, 2011
It’s not every day you win $400,000 on a scratch card.
But it’s somewhat rarer still to simply give it all away.
That’s exactly what Aisha Prater’s father did after winning the top prize on the Georgia Lottery ’20X The Money’ game.
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Unemployed Health Care Worker Wins Million
April 28th, 2011
It’s tough being unemplyed, especially when your unemployment benefit is just about to run out.
So the timing of this win could not have been any better for 28 year old Megan Gatlin, a former health care worker.
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19 Year Old Squaddie Scratches $100,000
April 28th, 2011
Fresh home from basic training in Fort Lee, Cody Fairey was already packing for Fort Bliss.
But it was whilst watching a hockey game with his brother and father, that he scratched off the Minnesota Hold ‘Em ticket.
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Lottery Winner Honours War Hero Great-Grandfather
April 27th, 2011
He could have jumped straight to the fast car and the big house.
But £1.6 Million lottery winner Neil Baker’s first thought was to finally take the trip to honour the grave of his great-grandfather who died in service during the Great War.
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Old Friends Happy To Split $1 Million Jackpot
April 26th, 2011
It may have been an unofficial agreement, and was never placed in writing. But Eula Webb and Sam Cricci are not greedy people, and are more than appreciative of the $1 Million they find themselves sharing.
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Pushy Sales Clerk Shocked At Selling $615,000 Ticket
April 26th, 2011
Kevin Russell normally only buys Powerball or Hot Lotto tickets. But a pushy sales clerk at ‘On The Fly’ encouraged him to spend an extra $5 on a ticket for the Idaho Lottery Wild Card draw.
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Irish Lottery Winners Net €4.7m
April 22nd, 2011
The mystery couple bought their ticket in Nenagh, County Tipperary, at Cleary’s Garage on the Limerick Road.
But Cleary’s were not telling who the mystery couple are, other than to say they were from the Mid West of Ireland.
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Geordie Cleaning Ladies Win £4,091,609
April 21st, 2011
An all girl syndicate of 16 cleaners from Egglescliffe Comprehensive in County Durham shared the UK Lotto jackpot on Saturday.
The jackpot had rolled over to a massive £16,366,436.
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UK Lotto Syndicate Win £4 Million With A Lucky Dip
April 20th, 2011
There was extra singing in the Rhondda Valley this Saturday, to the tune of £4,091,609.
A syndicate of rugby loving fans from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales just hit the UK Lotto jackpot, with a £1 lucky dip ticket.
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