Robert Winburn was convinced he had a system for picking a Powerball lottery winner;  heuses numbers that correspond to the letters in his last name.  Such was his faith in his set of numbers that he consistently bet on it for more than two decades. 

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Excitement is fast growing among Powerball players as the jackpot rose to an estimated $400 million.  The jackpot had only been $330 million for Saturday’s draw but when nobody won, frenzied ticket buying saw a $70 million rise almost overnight. 

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Four people from Paxton won a Powerball second prize of a million dollars when five of the numbers on their ticket matched those drawn in the November 23 draw.  

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When South Boston residents Edward P. Prakapas and friend Daniel McCarthy decided to go to Jimmy’s Korner on P street to buy a powerball ticket, they didn’t know they had given themselves a great start for the new year.  

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Watch this video of Arizona Lottery official Karen Bach announcing that the second winner of a $577.5 million Powerball jackpot has come forward.  The winner is a man in his 30’s who lives in Fountain Hills Arizona.

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Considering that all lottery players dream of winning a big jackpot, it is a constant wonder how many jackpots go unclaimed each year.  Though unclaimed prizes benefit the lottery’s charities, still it is more inspiring if the winners come forward to claim the prize they have dreamed of winning for a long time.

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It’s a hard life being a Powerball when all the attention is focussed on Mega Millions…

But don’t worry Powerball, it’s all over now — until next time.

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In Sterling Massachusetts, a huge lottery win has turned the town of only 7,800 people upside down, and people don’t even know who really won.

What set things in motion was an announcement that Appletown Market on Main Street sold one of the two winning tickets which won a $122.9 million Powerball jackpot, in Wednesday’s draw. 

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Guy Havey of Atchison may just have received a late inheritance from his late mother, a year after she passed.  He won a million dollars from the Powerball lottery using a number combination of his late mother’s birthday and the date she died, which he had been placing a bet on since she passed.

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A betting syndicate composed of workers at the Eger Lutheran Homes and Services have just won a million dollars.  The workers, whose jobs involve taking care of sick elderly people had pooled their money to buy Powerball tickets, one of which gave a million dollar return on investment.

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