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‘I can finally afford a house,’ Toronto man says after winning $55M lottery jackpot
Nishit Parikh says he “can finally afford a house in Toronto” after he won a $55 million Lotto Max Jackpot. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) announced Friday that the 30-year-old Toronto resident won the jackpot on the Aug. 5 draw.
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Hudson man wins $1 million from Florida lottery scratch-off game
Michael Swartz won the $1 million prize in THE FASTEST ROAD TO $1,000,000 Scratch-Off game and chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $790,000.00.
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Heartbroken Man Wins Over $4 Million In Lottery On Same Day He Got Dumped By Girlfriend
A man, who was heartbroken, ended up winning over $4 million in lottery on the same day he got dumped by his boyfriend. Yes, that happened. I can imagine the face of the girlfriend regretting because they dumped him on the wrong day.
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An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26 Million
How Jerry Selbee thrived with a simple algebraic solution.
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Man is Honoring Handshake From 28 Years Ago, Splitting Lottery Jackpot With a Friend After Winnings Millions
Friends Tom Cook and Joe Feeney shook hands in 1992, swearing that if either one of the pals won the Powerball jackpot, they would split the winnings…no matter who bought the ticket. Tom, of Elk Mound, was ’frozen’ when he realized the Powerball ticket he bought was the $22 Million jackpot winner. Afterward, he called Joe in Menomonie to tell him the news and Joe, an avid fisherman, couldn’t quite believe it.
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Lottery winner in Jamaica claims $95 million dressed as Darth Vader
Jamaican man collects $95 million in jackpot winnings dressed as Darth Vader. According to The Jamaica Gleaner, the man who won the lottery, W. Brown wore a costume in order to keep his identity discreet to ensure his safety and newly found fortune.
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Man throws away winning $100,000 lottery ticket, realizes mistake just in time
A South Carolina man is counting his lucky stars after almost making a very expensive mistake when he threw away his winning $100,000 lottery ticket before realizing he had actually won. The incident happened when the unnamed man purchased a Palmetto Cash 5 ticket from a BP gas station in Newberry, South Carolina, and, when checking the numbers of the lottery results, saw that he had lost and threw his ticket in the trash.
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2 Men Accused Of Gluing Winning Numbers Onto Lotto Ticket
Odis Latham, 47, and Russell Sparks, 48, were arrested Monday.
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TV reporter wins lottery she thought was millions, announces she's quitting job - only to find its just $7,500
Valencia community journalist Natalia Escudero was covering Spain's annual Christmas lottery, called El Gordo (The Fat One), when she found out that she was also a winner. It happened on Sunday December 22.The state-run lottery is the world's richest draw, boasting €2.24 billion (S$3.37 billion) in prizes, according to the Guardian. Nearly 15,000 people can have a winning ticket that pays in different amounts, according to travel website Barcelona Yellow.
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A man finds a $24 million lottery ticket in an old shirt -- just in the nick of time
Everyone has that spot in their house or car where they let the mail and receipts pile up. For 68-year old Jimmie Smith, it was an old shirt hanging in his closet. Stuffed in its pockets was a stack of unchecked lottery tickets. "I always told myself, 'I'll check them when I have the time,'" the New Jersey man said. It's a good thing he did. Because had he waited two days longer, he'd have lost out on $24.1 million.
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Lottery winner grateful after good Samaritan returns $273 million winning ticket
A New Jersey man would have missed out on a $273 million lottery jackpot if it wasn't for a good Samaritan store clerk who kept his tickets safe after he accidentally left them on the store counter. Mike Weirsky, 54, scored the life-changing Mega Millions jackpot when Quick Chek clerk Phil Campolo found the pair of $2 lottery tickets that Weirsky left behind after purchasing them last week at the location near his home in rural Alpha.
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A Friendly Reminder That the Lottery is a Regressive Tax
Nobody won last night’s Powerball drawing, sending the jackpot soaring to $750 million for the next drawing on Wednesday. That makes this a good time to remind ourselves that the lottery is a regressive tax disproportionately paid by the poorest Americans. The average adult in the U.S. spends $325 a year on lottery tickets, 63% of which goes to prizes, the rest of which goes to state and local governments.
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Lottery winner's ex-wife says $273m jackpot isn't enough to go back
A New Jersey lottery winner netted a staggering $273 million jackpot this week - but his ex-wife has said that even his newly inflated bank balance won't be enough to buy back her affections. Mike Weirsky, 54, was confirmed as the Mega Millions Jackpot winner on Thursday, but his former partner Eileen Murray says she still doesn't regret ending their marriage of 15 years in October.
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Man has Good Samaritan to thank for $273 million lottery win
An unemployed New Jersey man who won last Friday's $273 million Mega Millions jackpot said he wants to reward the mystery person who returned the tickets to a store where he'd left them a day earlier. Mike Weirsky said at a news conference with lottery officials Thursday that he bought the tickets last Thursday at a Quick Check store in Phillipsburg, near the Pennsylvania border, and forgot them there because he was more focused on his cellphone.
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Winner of $1.5 Billion Lottery Comes Forward (Well, Their Lawyer, Anyway)
An anonymous person in South Carolina finally claimed the record-setting prize from October’s $1.54 billion Mega Millions jackpot, opting to collect a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124. The state’s lottery commission announced on Monday that the person had stepped forward, ending questions about why, five months after the winning numbers were announced, no one had claimed the money. It was the largest payout to a single lottery winner in United States history.
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A truck driver from Brooklyn wins $298 million Powerball Jackpot
A truck driver on Friday claimed the second-largest Powerball Jackpot in New York Lottery history, which was worth $298.3 million. "I'm not going to work, I'm quitting right away!" David Johnson, 56, told CNN affiliate WABC. Johnson played the lottery on December 26, 2018, with the numbers 5-25-38-52-67, and Powerball 24. He decided to take the cash option, so his net total will be over $114 million after required withholdings, according to statement from the New York Lottery.
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Builder found £76m lottery ticket in van
A builder found the winning ticket for a £76m EuroMillions jackpot tucked in the visor of his van six weeks after the draw. Andrew Clark, 51, had a stockpile of lottery tickets in his Peugeot van. He discovered the winning ticket in the stash after being urged to check by his partner Trisha Fairhurst. Mr Clark, from Boston, Lincolnshire, said: "It almost feels like some magical Christmas story, the man who nearly lost £76 million!"
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Couple finds $1.8 million lottery ticket while cleaning before Thanksgiving
It's been a very happy Thanksgiving for this lucky couple.
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$1m lottery break for US hip patient
A man who fell and broke his hip while on his way to buy a lottery ticket in New Jersey has scooped the $1m jackpot - after buying a ticket at the hospital he was taken to for treatment. Earl Livingston, 87, from Blackpool, was given the chance to join Jefferson Stratford Hospital's lottery pool. He entered the state's Mega Millions pool with 141 other people.
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Single ticket wins record $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot in South Carolina
One winning ticket was sold for the record Mega Millions jackpot of what turned out to be just under $1.6 billion. The winning ticket was purchased in South Carolina. The six winning numbers were drawn Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, lottery officials said in a statement that the jackpot was worth $1.537 billion, more than $50 million less than the previously estimated jackpot of $1.6 billion.
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