Lucky Cashier Sells Herself Winning $1 Million Powerball Ticket
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Some of you out there have discarded hundreds, if not thousands, of lottery tickets that didn't bring the riches you hoped of them. Millions of people across the globe have been in the same boat. That makes for a lot of lottery tickets being thrown away. This couple found something very interesting to do with these losing tickets.
Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week's record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had.
Are you going to be playing for that growing lotto pot? Each day the pot becomes richer, more an more people want to win it. Who wouldn't want to retire at a young age without doing too much work? But, is it really that likely to win? How do you win?
Lottery fever is once again sweeping the nation thanks to the record setting Powerball Lottery. Saturday's numbers failed to produce a winner and now the jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing is at an all time high of $425 million. That jackpot is likely to grow as more people opt to buy lottery tickets leading up to the drawing so you could end up winning more than that, if you're the only one that matches all 6 numbers!
For the second time in six months, the nationwide Powerball lottery reached a record jackpot. Last nights jackpot was the fourth highest in the lottery’s history at $337 million. According to ABC News, there was only one winning ticket sold.
A defective lottery ticket raised and then dashed an out-of-work man’s dreams. It was like a printing machine played a cruel trick on him.
Merle and Patricia Butler, a retired couple in their 60s from the small town of Red Bud, IL, stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their share of the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot.
Money may not buy happiness, but it just might buy you a whole heap of trouble.
One Michigan lotto winner discovered that firsthand after she was arraigned on two felony counts of welfare fraud.
The Texas Lottery‘s Mega Millions jackpot drawing was estimated to be $363 million for last nights’ drawing, unfortunately there was no winner of the jackpot after the numbers were drawn and announced. However, an East Texan did win a cool $250,000 though by matching 5 out of 5 numbers and that ticket was sold at an East Texas convenience store!
On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.
But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.