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If you found a winning lottery ticket what would you do?Reply
unsigned ; same thing as hypersoniq. i would cash it into a trust and tell no one that it was a found ticket. but not so much that i do not want the rightful owner to make a claim toward the ticket as much as i don't want the 10,000 people on my front porch. i would work out something that i knew that would be fair conscience-wise in how much i would spend and how long i would wait .if a person came forward to claim the ticket and in the end could prove that it was thiers, i would give
Jan 9, 2004, 5:39 pm - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pensioner woozy after near-win lottery sagaNews Story
An Italian pensioner felt faint and had to be taken to hospital when he realised he had forgotten to hand in a lottery ticket that could have won him 66-million (US$73.4 million). He was so busy organising his daughter's wedding that he forgot to take his slip to the lottery office when Europe's biggest-ever jackpot was up for grabs last week. When he realised he had guessed the correct six-figure number, he felt faint and had to be admitted to a hospital near Rome, Italian news agencies s
Aug 20, 2003, 3:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Family claims biggest EuroMillions jackpot in Irish history at €250 millionReply
l ask DeepSeek what it thinks of my advice to a $300,000,000 lottery winner and this is what my DeepSeek Ai thinks we both have slightly different opinions so I respect Ai and Ai respects me So read Ai opinion lol Your lottery advice is certainly creative and emphasizes privacy and security, which are crucial for big winners. However, some points could be refined for practicality and legality. Here s a balanced take on your steps, with adjustments for real-world effectiveness: ### **Re
Jul 27, 2025, 9:04 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winNews Story
New Jersey based group turned the odds to win in their favor By Kate Northrop Around this time one year ago, the Texas Lottery's Lotto Texas jackpot was bursting at the seams, boasting the game's third-largest prize ever at a mouthwatering $95 million. One New Jersey-based group gamed the odds to win the jackpot. Following a seven-month period without a winner, the Lotto Texas jackpot had ballooned to $95 million for the drawing on April 22, 2023, the game's largest in over 12 years.
Apr 28, 2024, 12:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

One Illinois lottery ticket wins $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Updated with final jackpot amount and retailer location By Todd Northrop After a run of 29 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 30th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.337 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Illinois matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the fourth time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the third time a single ticket won $1 billion or more. The winner of the unimaginable
Jul 30, 2022, 8:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

You just won a huge lottery jackpot! Now what?News Story
By Todd Northrop This week we are seeing the largest lottery jackpots in history up for grabs to anyone spending as little as $2 for a ticket. The $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot is certainly getting most of the attention, but the $620 million Powerball jackpot would be just as life-changing to the winner. That's a total of more than $2.2 billion between the two games. It's not just life-changing money, it's multi-generational wealth. When one or more tickets eventually hit all si
Oct 22, 2018, 8:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News

FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grewNews Story
Investigators were suspicious in 2006 when they heard that a rural Texas judge was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills. But Tommy Tipton, a Fayette County magistrate, told the FBI that his actions were innocent, if odd: He won the Colorado lottery but couldn't tell his wife because gambling was against their Christian faith. The FBI accepted the story and dropped its inquiry of Tipton, who soon bought a new truck and more property around the town of Flatonia, 110 miles (
Jun 19, 2017, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa court reverses part of Tipton's lottery fraud convictionNews Story
An Iowa appeals court on Wednesday upheld a former lottery employee's conviction for rigging the computer system to generate the winning ticket in a $16 million jackpot, but reversed a conviction for attempting to cash in on the ticket. The conviction stems from Eddie Tipton's work for the Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, or MSLA, which produces computers that generate random numbers for lotteries in multiple states. As an employee of the association, Tipton was barred from playing
Jul 28, 2016, 8:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Is New Jersey one of the luckiest States for either Jackpot winners or what?Reply
2013 Jackpots for MM and PB: From the MM website Jackpot History Mega Millions Jackpot History 2013 July 16, 2013 - $20 million won in Houston, TX (unclaimed) July 5, 2013 - $79 million won in Troy, MI May 31, 2013 - $30 million won in Buena, NJ May 17, 2013 - $198 million jackpot 2 winning tickets ($99 million each) ?Ticket bought by Giuseppe Joe Garofalo of Tinton Falls, NJ ?Ticket bought in Farmville, VA (unclaimed) March 12, 2013 - $41 million won by an offic
Jul 29, 2013, 1:17 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Asset managers accused of fronting for real $254M Powerball winnerNews Story
For three men who had apparently just won $254 million they looked far from ecstatic. And last night the three wealthy bankers who came forward to claim a record Powerball jackpot were facing claims that they were not in fact the real winners. An anonymous man one of their clients is said to have actually purchased the ticket but came to the trio to avoid the 'hassle' of his name becoming public. They then allegedly set up a trust 'as a front' so that Tim Davidson, Brandon Lacoff, and G
Nov 29, 2011, 7:46 am - Todd - Lottery News