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Compiling lists of states and claiming rules/anonymous, etc. Please add.Reply
Washington: As a public agency, all documents held by Washington's Lottery are subject to the Public Records Act. Lottery prizes may be claimed in the name of a legally formed entity, such as a trust. However, in the event of a public records request, the documents forming the artificial entity may be released, thereby revealing the individual names of winners. Source: https://walottery.com/ClaimYourPrize/ Idaho: Since your name, prize amount and town of residence is public informatio
Jan 21, 2019, 10:31 pm - oate - Jackpot Games Forum

Better Business Bureau releases study on sweepstakes, lottery and prize scamsNews Story
A new report by the Better Business Bureau says sweepstakes, lottery and prize scams are using ever-changing methods to hurt victims financially and emotionally. The frauds concentrate on seniors, targeting them by direct mail, cold calling, social media, text messages and smartphone pop-ups. BBB warns consumers to be on guard against the serious frauds and their perpetrators. The report Sweepstakes, Lottery and Prize Scams: A Better Business Bureau Study of How 'Winners' Lose Millions
Jun 18, 2018, 8:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Woman denied $43 million jackpot, offered steak dinner insteadNews Story
It was a selfie she thought was worth nearly $43 million. Katrina Bookman hit the jackpot on a slot machine in late August at Resorts World Casino in Jamaica, Queens. She even took an excited self-portrait with the machine displaying her winnings: $42,949,672. It would have been the largest slot machine jackpot in US history. I can't even describe the feeling. It's like my whole body just got numb, Bookman said. But when she came back the next day to find out the exact size of her jack
Nov 3, 2016, 12:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

One Powerball ticket worth $487 million sold in New HampshireNews Story
By Todd Northrop Folks in New Hampshire are eager to learn who among them holds the winning ticket to a $487 million Powerball jackpot. The New Hampshire Lottery has announced that the winning ticket was sold at the Hannaford Supermarket on Freetown Road in Raymond, a southern New Hampshire town of about 10,000. According to officials, this marks the 10th winning Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire and the first since 2007. By far, it is the largest jackpot-winning ticket ever sold i
Jul 31, 2016, 6:32 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Unclaimed jackpots from games that ended?Reply
I really can't hold it in any longer, so I'll tell you. You have 3 options: 1. Someone threw it away. Yes I find a lot of winners in the trash. You could probably make a living just driving around going through the trash. 2. It was destroyed by the lottery. 3. It was never sent out. So for all the people up in arms about the 1 or 2 top prizes left for the games closing here you go: This is why it's illegal: To start off the lottery has to legally post the number of p
Apr 21, 2016, 12:45 am - Zebekyia - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

NJ Lottery holds annual second-chance drawingNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery held the Grand Prize Drawing of the 2015 Million Dollar Replay program with more than 100 semi-finalists and their guests in attendance at the War Memorial in Trenton. The Million Dollar Replay program is the final drawing event held each year to award huge prizes to holders of non-winning New Jersey Lottery tickets. The excitement and anticipation in the room was palpable as attendees hoped their name would be drawn as the next New Jersey Lottery millionaire or reci
Feb 12, 2016, 7:33 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Quest for lottery jackpot denied againNews Story
The long-running case of Clarence Jackson, who has been fighting for 19 years to claim $5.8 million in lottery winnings, encountered another setback Tuesday when a legislative committee voted 13-12 to reject his case. Jackson held a winning lottery ticket, but tried to redeem it three days past the deadline. Since then, Jackson has been on a roller coaster with the once-in-a-lifetime ticket that would have made him a millionaire. (See CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 tick
Mar 18, 2015, 11:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Three tickets to split massive $564 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Final jackpot total of $564.1 million is fifth-largest ever in USA By Todd Northrop Three Powerball lottery tickets sold in North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Texas matched all the winning numbers Wednesday night to share a $564.1 million jackpot. The winning numbers in the Wed., Feb. 11, 2015, drawing were 11, 13, 25, 39, and 54, with Powerball number 19. The Power Play number was 3. The $564.1 million Powerball jackpot, which is the fifth-largest of any lottery game in history, start
Feb 12, 2015, 1:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

El Gordo (The Fat One)Reply
Lottery Christmas is celebrated on December 22 and has many lottery prizes low amount ( 100 , 6,000 ) and then there are special prizes ( 20,000 , 40,000 , 60,000 ... ) and then there is the third prize , second prize and the first El Gordo de Navidad ( 400,000 ) prize for each ticket each series ... Also has opted refund of money if your ticket ends on the last digit of the jackpot. Number : 13,437 - All tickets are finished on 7 returns the money Series: Each issue has 180 sets of
Dec 24, 2014, 12:39 pm - anubinareloaded - Lottery Discussion Forum

101-year-old wins $50,000 Arizona Lottery prizeNews Story
Christmas came a few weeks early for 101-year-old Lily Camacho, who lives in the central Arizona mining town of Kearny. On Tuesday, she won the grand prize of $50,000 in the Arizona Lottery's Money Tree game. That's probably a good thing because she has 24 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren, 19 great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild. Fortunately, she also has a 78-year-old son who buys her the occasional scratch-off ticket. Not that any of them ever paid off u
Dec 16, 2014, 8:02 am - Todd - Lottery News