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According To Math, Here's When You Should Buy A Powerball Ticket
The Powerball lottery jackpot has hit a whopping $400 million, and the question on everyone's mind is "At what point should I actually start caring about the Powerball Lottery"? Powerball is interesting in the sense that there are a number of stagnant cash prizes that you can win, as well as an ever-increasing jackpot.
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$400 million Powerball lottery ticket sold in Lexington, South Carolina
You were more likely to be struck by lightning or attacked by a shark - maybe even at the same time - than win Wednesday night's Powerball drawing.
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LUMP SUM OR THE ANNUITY: Here's Which One To Choose If You Win The Lottery
An anonymous South Carolinian has stepped forward as the winner of the most recent $400 million Powerball lottery. Lucky guy. Now comes the hard part.
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New York clerk paid lottery winner $1,000 instead of $1 million, police say
New York store owner and son are accused of trying to cheat an unnamed lottery winner.
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Calgary man says he’ll donate entire $40M lottery win to charity
A Calgary man who won a $40-million lottery jackpot says he will donate every cent to charity. Tom Crist found out that he’d won the Lotto Max jackpot in May, but did not claim it until Monday. For months, he didn’t tell anyone about his big win – not even his kids.
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California man claims half of $648 million Mega Millions jackpot
It apparently took him a few days to realize it, but California resident Steve Tran is one of the two winners of the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history, lottery officials said Friday.
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Homeless Hungarian man hits lottery jackpot with his last few coins
Unemployed, in debt and facing another year living on the streets in Hungary, László Andraschek spent his last remaining coins on a lottery ticket. Now the formerly homeless man has a choice of accommodation around the world after becoming one of Hungary's biggest lottery winners, with a prize of about £1.7m.
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With four months to go before Scotland votes, a nasty rift has opened
Scotland’s nationalist first minister, is known to enjoy a flutter on the horses. He must therefore have felt his political racecard had turned hot in 2011 when Colin and Chris Weir, two lifelong members of the Scottish National Party, won a lottery jackpot worth £161m. That win, remarkably, has probably shortened the odds on a Scottish exit from the United Kingdom, after the independence referendum due in September. It has also helped reveal just how deeply the vote is dividing Scotland.
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2 men throw out $1M ticket, sue New Jersey Lottery
Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
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Guy Finds $2.9M Lottery Ticket in His Truck
The owner of a Long Island body shop made a nifty discovery in his truck last month worth about, oh, $3 million.Jerry Ritieni bought a bunch of lottery tickets in July and stuffed them in the truck's center console rather than his pocket "for some odd reason," he tells Newsday.
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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
Blind to the mathematical odds, we fall to the marketing gods.
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Man Beats One in 9.7 Trillion Odds to Win Same Lottery Twice
It’s truly hard to believe: a man accidentally won the same lottery twice for a payout of $546,000. Kenneth J. Stokes, of Norwood, Mass., is a lottery season ticket holder, which automatically enters him into every drawing of a certain lottery with specific, pre-set numbers of his choosing.
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Roswell man told $500k winning lottery ticket a 'misprint'
A New Mexico man thought he won big bucks on a lottery scratcher only to find out it was a misprint. In December, John Wines bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at the Shell gas station in Roswell. The winning numbers were 1 and 2. As John started scratching, he came across not 1,2,3 or 4 - but 5 winning numbers, totaling over $500,000.
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$13.5M-winning lottery ticket bought 7 seconds late invalid, top court decides
A Quebec man who bought a winning lottery ticket seven seconds too late has lost his Supreme Court of Canada bid to appeal a decision that has denied him half of the $27-million prize. "I'm going to be very very honest with you … I'm very disappointed in this decision," said Joel Ifergan of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, from Montreal's West Island.
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States Consider Awarding Lottery Winners Something Else: Anonymity
If you are lucky enough to win the lottery here, there is one thing you are virtually certain to lose: your privacy. Like most of the 44 states with lotteries, North Carolina considers the identities of winners of large prizes to be a matter of public record. But this year, in which winners already have come forward more than 40 times to claim awards that the state later publicized...
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Man who sells lottery tickets won sixteen times in 2 years
A Bronx businessman who has won more big lottery jackpots than any other New Yorker doesn’t have to go far to buy tickets — he owns a store that sells them. Armand Paganelli scored an astounding 16 winning tickets in 2013 and 2014, amassing a tidy $625,000 in jackpots. One was $250,000; the others were $25,000 apiece. The winning ducats were all bought at the drugstore Paganelli owns with his brothers — Mt. Carmel Pharmacy on East 187th Street.
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New Powerball Odds Could Give America Its First Billion-Dollar Jackpot
New York state lottery commissioners approved a proposed rule Monday that would change the Powerball lottery jackpot odds. Assuming the rest of the Powerball stakeholders get on board (and they hav…
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Ex-lottery worker convicted of rigging Hot Lotto system to win $14M
A former lottery security official was found guilty Monday of rigging a computerized Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot then trying to get acquaintances to cash the prize for him without revealing his identity. Prosecutors said Eddie Tipton inserted a stealth program into the computer that randomly picked the numbers then deleted it so it could not be detected. Although Tipton, 52, never got his hands on the winning total, he was charged with two counts of fraud.
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Indiana lotto debuts bacon-scented scratch-off tickets; prize: lots of bacon
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A new scratch-off game is sizzling for the Hoosier Lottery this summer, and it smells pretty good too. It’s the lottery’s new “bacon-scented” scratch-off game. The lottery has teamed up with the Indiana Pork Producers Association for the promotion. Each scratch-off comes with a big breakfast bacon smell and a pork trivia…
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Addicted to the Lottery: Why People Buy False Hope and Lottery Tickets
People don't play the lottery because they expect to get rich. They play the lottery because it's fun to indulge in the fantasy that, one day, their lives could suddenly get easier.
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