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Record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won by 3 ticketsReply
The largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Wednesday night by three tickets sold in California, Florida, and Tennessee . Never trust a reporter who can't even get the FIRST SENTENCE of an article right. The world's largest lottery Jackpot award goes to Spain. They had a lottery prize that was equal to $2.4 Billion.
Jan 14, 2016, 11:57 am - AUricle - Lottery News

More lottery winners using trusts to accept prizes anonymouslyReply
Are you sure about that? Don't they also release the personal info of winners? Like drenick1 says below, why wasn't Gloria advised to do so? Can you point me to the article/law on that? Not being antagonistic, just curious.
Jan 13, 2016, 9:55 am - MaximumMillions - Lottery News

Anonymity for this huge jackpot. Let's settle this right here and now.Reply
Iowa law requires the name of the person redeeming the ticket not who purchased it If that were true, Johnson or Shaw could have successfully claimed the winnings. According to this news article the Iowa Lottery wanted to talk to the man wearing the hoody that bought the ticket. Somehow, Johnston and company erroneously assumed they could cash in the ticket through a trust to keep the buyer anonymous. But this was another oversight: Iowa is one of several states that mandates winners be
Jan 13, 2016, 1:00 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Canadians need to be creative about buying, redeeming Powerball lottery ticketsReply
The very last sentence of this article says, Canadians are eligible to win the grand prize, but will have to give up one-third to U.S. taxes before that cash is brought north of the border. Man that hurts! So first you pay Uncle Sam his 39.6% then you pay any state taxes if applicable. THEN you give one third of the original amount to Uncle Sam. So we thought that living in New York was bad (8.82% state tax) living in Canada is much more of a nightmare. The biggest nightmare is how do y
Jan 12, 2016, 9:35 am - AbsolutelyFun - Lottery News

$450 MILLION: Powerball sales bonanza sparks early jackpot increaseReply
Article is titled: We did the math for the $450 million Powerball jackpot and concluded it's not worth buying a ticket Then they say, Given the overwhelming likelihood a 96% probability that we wind up matching absolutely nothing and therefore wind up just throwing our $2 out the window, our expected value ends up being $0.14 in the red. We would need a prize of around $500 million to get a positive expected value. Hey close enough to make it worth the risk. Besides if you don't play t
Jan 5, 2016, 9:29 pm - AbsolutelyFun - Lottery News

N.C. lottery winner bails out convict fiancé fourth timeReply
Her big time loser of a boyfriend must have a magical wand because with only a fraction of that money she could have rented herself a gigolo that could service her or read her bedtime stories or whatever this loser of a boyfriend does to make her want to keep him around. You would think that with all those millions that she could or should have a massive amount of guys who would line up around city blockS to be with her but then again there is no cure for stupidity. Like David Edwards she will b
Jan 5, 2016, 5:48 am - AbsolutelyFun - Lottery News

Minnesota Lottery director resigns after timeshare inquiryReply
That was my first thought when I read the article. I don't care who owns the property. If they can stay there for less than it would have cost them to stay at a hotel, then ownership shouldn't matter. In this case I don't think that $311 per night was any kind of bargain and staying there only financially helped the director and no one else. But in general, why should there be an automatic veto because someone with ties to the lottery owns it? You look at the dates of the conference, you chec
Dec 20, 2015, 8:50 am - Teddi - Lottery News

Iraqi's Oregon jackpot raises questions on lottery salesReply
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Individuals with this traits may be hypersensitive, easily feel slighted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases. Paranoid individuals are eager observers. They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of that danger, p
Dec 14, 2015, 12:08 am - adobea78 - Lottery News

Man in Iraq wins $6.4 million Oregon Lottery jackpotReply
Rather than a lump-sum payment, the winner chose to take his payout over 20 years. The agency made the first payment of $256,000 last week (after withholding income taxes, as is the typical procedure). Interesting. Prior to October 4th, the annuity for this game was 25 years. Now it is 30 years. Where does the 20 years come from? Please see this article: http://www.ktvz.com/news/lottery-still-waiting-to-hear-from-bends-big-jackpot-winner/34917810
Dec 12, 2015, 12:41 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery News

One in hospital, one in jail after lottery ticket fightReply
I really wish people wouldn't fight. There's too much of that going on in this world today. Why, just today, my neighbor and I were discussing the very subject. I just read about the 1 year-old girl, who was murdered by her 8-year old brother. This world's getting out of hand. The 8 year-old's been charged. The Moms? Oh, the CNN article said, they were out clubbing .
Nov 11, 2015, 5:52 pm - Groppo - Lottery News