Lottery Winners

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Jackpot Lottery Ticket Survives Washing Machine

August 16th, 2011

A man from Christchurch, New Zealand was lucky twice over when he discovered he had washed a lottery ticket in his jeans pocket.

Not only did the ticket survive the full wash cycle, it turned out to be worth $250,000.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

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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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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Joan Ginther Texas Maths Professor – And Four Times Lottery Winner

August 9th, 2011

This story seems to resurface every once in a while – but Joan Ginther really is a lottery winner four times over. Although the most recent win was way back in 2010.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Wife Waits 5 Weeks To Tell Oil Rigger Husband They Won The Lottery

August 4th, 2011

Angela Sutherland from Wick, Caithness discovered their £282,940.50 win on the EuroMillions lottery, and waited an agonising 5 weeks before coming forward to claim the money.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

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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Elderly Couple Spend $614,000 On Lottery Tickets

August 2nd, 2011

Gerald and Marjorie Selbee are both over 70, but they are not your typical pensioners.

Over a period of 3 days the couple from Massachusetts spent $314,000 each buying lottery tickets for the Massachusetts Cash WinFall lottery game.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

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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