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Cat saves the day by finding long-lost winning lottery ticketNews Story
If a cat finds a winning lottery ticket purchased on Friday the 13th, is it superstition or fate? If you ask Russell Ruff of Somers, Connecticut, the word he'd use is miraculous after the family cat led them to a Powerball ticket they believed was lost. We lost the ticket at home. It went behind a headboard, and we didn't think too much of it... we didn't really check the numbers, recalled Russell. He says the ticket was discovered when the cat somehow made its way behind a bed, prom
Jul 11, 2025, 12:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Michigan $733,968 Fantasy 5 jackpot winner wins again, this time a $1M Millionaire Raffle prizeNews Story
Lucky streak: second major win in just over a year By Kate Northrop As if winning part of a $733,968 jackpot in the Fantasy 5 draw game wasn't cool enough, one Michigan man won the $1 million top prize in the Michigan Lottery's Millionaire Raffle just over a year later. Luck hasn't stopped flowing for one Michigan lottery player, who has now won the highest-tier prizes in two of the games Michigan Lottery has to offer. The 47-year-old Michigan resident opted to remain anonymous w
Apr 27, 2026, 7:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ohio man has the "best day of his life" after winning the lottery twice in one dayNews Story
Player is in disbelief at raking in more than $300,000 in winnings By Kate Northrop An Ohio man just had the luckiest day of his life when he won a top-tier prize in one lottery game and then $300,000 in another. The Ohio Lottery is coining this winner's lucky streak as the best day of his life, which was bookended by two separate wins in two different games. The winner, going by D. in an announcement from the Lottery, told officials about a lucky streak he's not sure will ever h
Apr 17, 2026, 8:58 am - Todd - Lottery News

Florida man arrested after attempting to cash stolen $115,000 Fantasy 5 lottery ticketReply
The winning drawing was Oct 1 evening. Wed, Oct 1, 2025 Evening 3 12 17 20 23 Prize Level Winners Prize 5-of-5 5 1 $115,732.61 4-of-5 4 203 $91.50 3-of-5 3 5,636 $9 2-of-5 2 52,812 Free Ticket I'm thinking Williams knew he won and went to the store to verify it and the jackpot amount, but the uncle told him he won a smaller prize and gave Williams the money out of the cash register then kept the ticket and wouldn't return it. So then
Jan 22, 2026, 5:24 am - grwurston - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
One thing I truly miss is bump up to the jackpot like in the good old days. Gone for good I'd say. Considering that they've done it 4 times in the last 4 months it hardly seems like it no longer happens. Changing to 3 drawings per week has a minor effect, but the real issue is that lottery sales per drawing are generally slower than they used to be. Even so, the current PB run is a rare exception (as of now) for not bumping some of the jackpots for runs that made it past the billion dollar
Dec 24, 2025, 12:32 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Powerball jackpot increased in longest-ever winless streakReply
Yeah but the ticket isn't really yours until 1. You sign it 2. You present it to a lottery official right ? The ticket is yours the moment you buy it. What it isn't is an financial instrument worth millions. Even after the drawings it's not worth anymore than you paid for it. The ticket only becomes valuable when the lottery validates it and says it's worth the prize it won. As a practical matter it becomes valuable as soon as you submit the claim, but the money isn't yours until the ticket
Dec 16, 2025, 2:11 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery halts Cash 3 triple payout promotion one week inNews Story
Overwhelming player response leads Lottery to halt promotion early By Kate Northrop One week after it launched, the Mississippi Lottery prematurely halted the Cash 3 promotion that tripled all prize payouts for what was supposed to be the entire month of November. The Mississippi Lottery abruptly announced the conclusion of the Cash 3 Times 3 prize enhancement today, Nov. 7, after receiving an overwhelming player response to the limited-time promotion. It was originally slated to
Nov 7, 2025, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery triples all Cash 3 prizes for NovemberNews Story
Lottery increases Cash 3 prize payouts to celebrate 6th anniversary By Kate Northrop The Mississippi Lottery is celebrating its 6th anniversary by tripling all Cash 3 prizes for the entire month of November. For all of November, Mississippi lottery players have the chance of walking away with three times the amount in Cash 3 than usual. The Mississippi Lottery launched its Cash 3 Times 3 promotion on Nov. 1, which awards players with triple the winnings in Cash 3. Any prize that
Nov 4, 2025, 8:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
At the risk of generating a post generating obsessive, unreadable, tiresome and useless nonsense about memos and such, I would like to suggest that the Poisson distribution for probability of numbers of winners, based on the estimated number of sales for this drawing as posted on the Texas Lottery website, $467,466,068 (corresponding to 233,733,034 tickets) suggests the following number of winners: k, number of winners p(m,k) 0 43.52% 1 36.21% 2 15.06% 3 4.18% 4 0.87
Sep 5, 2025, 10:13 am - Prob988 - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery announces Bonus Draws Daily 4 promotionNews Story
Chance to win larger prizes in daily draw game this month By Kate Northrop The Michigan Lottery has announced an upcoming Bonus Draws promotion for its Daily 4 in-state draw game, which will give players an additional chance to win larger prizes during some special drawings. The Bonus Draws promotion for the Michigan Lottery's Daily 4 game, which is local to the state of Michigan, will start this September. Starting Sept. 1, Bonus Draws will be announced during certain midday and
Aug 29, 2025, 9:11 am - Todd - Lottery News