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30 Kentucky middle school employees win $1M Powerball prize, hid lottery ticket in math textbookNews Story
By Kate Northrop A group of 30 middle school employees carpooled to the Kentucky Lottery after the final school bell rang on Tuesday to collect their $1 million Powerball prize. 30 educators from a Boone County middle school regrouped after work to collect the $1 million Powerball prize they won in the Jan. 27 drawing and showed up at Lottery headquarters in high spirits. The group calls themselves the Jones 30, named after the Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence that brought t
Feb 3, 2024, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

$935 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot nears billion-dollar milestoneReply
It seems Mega can't never get close to the Powerball record. I'm actually waiting to see if we will ever beat the 2 Billion record. I feel this pot going to climb into the top 3 but I don't think it will beat Edwin Castro jackpot. It will reach a billion by Saturday for sure. I'll just get my one ticket with the Powerplay on my own. Not going to go crazy like everyone around the country. Odds stack tremendous against us but it only takes one ticket to win. Plus I'm in a lottery group of 82 peopl
Mar 28, 2024, 10:52 am - Wildbill78 - Lottery News

Florida lottery winners suspect state "system error" is blocking prize payoutsReply
Simple math. Don't play trips or quads. That's $10 to $20 a game, or $5 to $10 per game. Simple math. In this game, conspiracy theories run rampant. My comment would be, doesn't the lottery always say, we're not trying not to pay people. Show me the money.
May 28, 2024, 7:46 am - Soledad - Lottery News

UPDATE: Proposed changes to Mega Millions game will raise ticket price to $5Reply
Do you think they are copying other lottery games in other countries? Lotto Max is $5 in Canada. The odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 33,294,800. It's not taxed like in America. I remember Lottery Post did interview years ago about how Powerball might go international too. Which makes no sense to me why they would do that. Ironically we still can't buy tickets online in every state like other countries can. They can remain anonymous. But they want to make it international? Europe has Euro
Jun 15, 2024, 10:35 am - Kandiapple - Lottery News

$865 MILLION: Powerball jackpot reaching historic levelsReply
I've been playing for 20 years! I'm happy if I just matched the 5 Mega ball with Mega Plier and go off into the sunset. For the life of me I don't understand why people will still play after winning $10 million or $100 million jackpots from the lottery. I know several people who won millions of dollars but they continue to play. Don't they know they beat tremendous odds. Hey but their stories of people who got struck by lightning twice in the same spot. I seen some crazy odds of like 1 in a tril
Mar 26, 2024, 9:35 am - Wildbill78 - Lottery News

$36 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Florida goes unclaimedNews Story
By Todd Northrop Someone who purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket last August in Florida has forfeited a life-changing $36 million prize payout after the winning ticket expired last week. No one stepped up to claim the prize from the August drawing before the Sunday, Feb. 11 deadline, rendering the Mega Millions lottery ticket void. As a result, the winner has no chance of claiming the winnings the ticket is now only worth the paper it was printed on, said Michelle Griner, a spok
Feb 20, 2024, 7:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

UPDATE: Proposed changes to Mega Millions game will raise ticket price to $5Reply
The Lucky for Life Jackpot Odds are 1:30,821,472. The jackpot is not won every day. I won't throw a party just because the odds are not 1: 278.369M. I buy one ticket for each draw plus the multiplier for a total of $6 a week. To keep my play constant I have to add $4 to my weekly budget. The 1X multiplier is a scam, there will be more 1X balls that the other numbers. I don't view it a win for me, it's more money out of my pocket. Regardless of the reduced odds and the
Jun 13, 2024, 5:56 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winNews Story
New Jersey based group turned the odds to win in their favor By Kate Northrop Around this time one year ago, the Texas Lottery's Lotto Texas jackpot was bursting at the seams, boasting the game's third-largest prize ever at a mouthwatering $95 million. One New Jersey-based group gamed the odds to win the jackpot. Following a seven-month period without a winner, the Lotto Texas jackpot had ballooned to $95 million for the drawing on April 22, 2023, the game's largest in over 12 years.
Apr 28, 2024, 12:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News