Losers

We all lose on the lottery, but sometimes even the big winners turn out to be losers after all. Now you know it should have been you.

Winner Throws Away $77 Million Powerball Jackpot

December 28th, 2011

The US Powerball is a very hard game to win.

The odds are a pretty horrendous 1 in 195,249,054. Let’s call it 1 in 195 Million for ease of thinking.

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Irish Lottery Shows Wrong Results

December 19th, 2011

It’s not entirely rare for the wrong lottery results to appear.

But normally it’s a third party – you know, a small newspaper printing last weeks numbers, or a regional TV show accidentally putting up last weeks graphic.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Short Lived Jackpot Celebration As Newspaper Prints Wrong Lottery Numbers

September 16th, 2011

Elida Betancourt was screaming so madly her son thought she was having a heart attack.

But Elida had actually won $54 Million on the Mega Millions lottery.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Office Lottery Pool Sued By Sick Member

September 8th, 2011

It was only a month ago we brought you the news of the Kraftmaid lottery winners.

Well, it has now been revealed there is a potential 23rd member of the office pool – Edward Hairston.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

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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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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Powerball Lottery Changes 2012

July 1st, 2011

The Powerball is one of the most popular lottery games in the USA, and is coming up to celebrating it’s 20th birthday in January 2012.

But there are some controversial changes scheduled to take place on it’s birthday, 15th January 2012.

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Jackpot Winner Prevails – Fake Claims Are Withdrawn

June 23rd, 2011

Matt Hayduk won the Canada Lotto Max fair and square on the 22 April 2011.

He turned up at lottery headquarters with his winning ticket – and said pay me the $33,301,693 jackpot, because I have the winning ticket right here in my hand.

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Cheated Lottery Winner Sues Lottery Company

June 1st, 2011

In the latest twist on an older story, a Dallas man is now suing various parties to try and recover the $1 Million that he missed out on when a sales clerk stole his winning lottery ticket.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

‘Winners And Losers’ Hits Screens [video]

April 12th, 2011

Australias ‘most popular new drama’ series may be coming your way soon.

Winners And Losers is about four high school friends who meet up at their 10 year reunion.

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