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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Bright Red Scratch Card Reveals £250,000 Jackpot
February 4th, 2016
Katie Douglas almost missed on a big payday when she discovered that the Tesco store did not carry her usual scratch card. A last minute decision to go ahead and purchase a bright red National Lottery £250k Red Scratchcard instead gave her more than she expected.
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Welder Wins The Lottery Just In Time
February 3rd, 2016
The year did not start well for Alan Tyrie as he lost his welder job on January 11th. But just two weeks later, he won a £1 million jackpot from the lottery – he did not even have a job to resign from by then!
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Man Wins $7M Off Rejected Ticket
February 3rd, 2016
A mistake in punching caused by store clerk Michael Donnelly resulted in the machine spitting out a Cash4Life ticket instead of the Powerball ticket the customer wanted.
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Big Mega Millions Winner Shares Her Experiences
February 3rd, 2016
When Cynthia P. Stafford won a huge $110 million jackpot playing the California Mega Millions eight years ago things began to change very quickly. From living on a very tight budget, she suddenly had much more than she actually needs.
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Filipino Retiree Wins A Million From Powerball
February 2nd, 2016
A Filipino man won a million dollar consolation prize in a powerball draw; and he was not even interested enough to watch the draw live.
It was only when he checked results later that Teofilo Mesina discovered he had become a millionaire.
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This Week’s Top Stories
February 2nd, 2016
There are very interesting stories of lottery luck this week. Two women an ocean apart won big sums after a visit to the store; the UK woman won £3m while the one from the US went home $4 million richer.
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Cabbie Helped Man To Discover Big Lotto Win
February 2nd, 2016
It took a conversation with a cabbie to convince a Glasgow man to check his lottery tickets. When he did, the man who did not want to be identified found himself a millionaire.
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Catherine Sakal Wins $5 Million Jackpot
January 31st, 2016
Catherine Sakal does not have a system for playing scratch off cards. She plays different games at random and buys from different places. But while on a gas station the number 23 on a lottery card drew her attention because it was her daughter’s birthday.
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Bing Makes It Easier To Search For Lottery Results
January 31st, 2016
They say need is the mother of invention; sometimes it spurs innovation too. The recent huge Powerball draw which featured a $1.5 billion jackpot prompted a lot of lottery result searches.
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Maryland Lottery Cash4Life Game Launched
January 31st, 2016
People who play the lottery often dream of winning enough money to set them up for the rest of their lives. There’s good news for lottery players in Maryland; the Maryland Lottery has just introduced a new Cash4Life game.
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