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$800 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot approaches billion-dollar rangeReply
You did not read the article. You really should, because you are incorrect. That article you linked even contains information that contradicts what you said: As measured by the total prize payout, the Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery worldwide. Total prize payout is a prize pool, not a jackpot. Even the top prize in El Gordo is a prize pool split by hundreds of people, not a jackpot. And although El Gordo is commonly referred to as a lottery , it is actually
Jan 8, 2016, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

In lotteries, lucky numbers will only win you lessReply
It's popular in the U.S. as well and in 2011, four of the numbers hit in the Mega Millions lottery. More than 40,000 people had played the winning combination, and each one walked away with a slice of the multimillion-dollar prize. This is incorrect. 4/5 pays a set amount not part of a multimillion dollar jackpot. The person who wrote this article seems like they don't know how to play the games, but it does state that people playing birthdays have a higher chance of splitting the jackpo
Oct 9, 2015, 11:17 am - Zebekyia - Lottery News

$188 million lottery winner arrested on marijuana chargesReply
I found a local N.C. TV news website w/ this article and video: Lottery winner s fiance out of jail on $6M bond; Holmes responds . I also went to the article on their Facebook page and found the comment by Holmes, but her wall and posts on it are hidden, so I couldn't tell if it was in fact really her. Seems to be, though, what with all the personal photographs of her and her kids, but then again, the URL to her page has Richard Mook Wifey in it, so....ya never know. She accuses others of
Aug 8, 2015, 12:20 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery officials exploring other ways to pay winning-ticket holdersReply
The gist of the article is that many retailers don't carry enough cash to pay winners. I suppose most don't want to for security reasons. Also, like the article said, most people use debit and credit cards. That would be the problem. It happened to me a few years ago. I won a few hundred dollars and the little convenience store where I bought my tic didn't have the money on hand. She told me to come back in a few hours and she would have the money, and she did. I understood, and it wasn't a b
Jun 22, 2015, 8:37 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery News

Lottery windfalls can buy anything except anonymityReply
Read the article posted on LP in 2007; it has all the lawsuit details including how Ford found out Shakespeare won. You want to make it sound as if Shakespeare's lawsuit just materialized out of thin air and that his publicized win was not the instigating factor. LMAO! Moore met Shakespeare a year after the lawsuit. Are you that lazy or can't you read the article that was posted on LP?
Mar 13, 2015, 10:17 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

More big Lottery winners using trusts to stay anonymousReply
The entity MANAGING the trust can be found out fairly easily, but it's not nearly so easy to find out the name of the person the trust was established for. It usually takes a court order to identify them. None of these anonymous lottery winners with trusts had been identified in Texas as of the date of this article: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Trust-keeps-24-million-jackpot-winner-anonymous-3848371.php
Feb 21, 2015, 2:40 am - Scratch$ - Lottery Discussion Forum

It's time the lottery needs to stop releasing a person name and picture when a big win is won!Reply
Regarding the LP article entitled Judge rules Washington lottery winners can't be anonymous : In this thread, we're clearly talking about STATE LAWS regarding lottery privacy/anonymity - state laws being defined as laws passed by a STATE LEGISLATURE. An intelligent examination of the LP article about the Washington case, reveals that NO state lottery privacy law was overturned by the judge, since there was no such law on the books there. ALL the Judge's decision did was overturn a TEMPORARY
Feb 21, 2015, 12:44 am - Scratch$ - Lottery Discussion Forum

Massachusetts man buys lottery tickets to break $100 bill, wins $10 millionReply
Sure, KY Floyd, from the beginning of this article, most of us probably started chuckling when the article tried to sell that someone who has a large bill THINKS that they must spend $20 in order for someone to take the trouble to accept that large bill. Several times, at different gas stations, I've cashed a $50 or $100 bill before, but it's only to buy a pack of gum or my usual twice weekly on-line drawing lottery tickets. A couple of times it was only a $1 purchase. Cash is cash ... if the
Jan 27, 2015, 7:21 pm - HaveABall - Lottery News

Audit: Stores buying Michigan lottery tickets from playersReply
Without much proof, other state agencies are assuming all the tickets are being cashed at a discount. We really can't expect buyers to pay the winner the full value of a ticket before state and federal taxes are deducted. But that doesn't change the fact the taxes will eventually be deducted so it's not the tax people complaining. Either I missed the memo saying our personal income tax returns which includes our SS number, are now public record or there is no way of knowing if the lottery
Nov 19, 2014, 5:41 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Joan Ginther Scratch Off Lottery Legend...Reply
After reading the entire article, I'm not terribly impressed. Her strategy of buying up as many as she could wasn't original or 'deep'. The article stated that all the big wins occurred in or near her small hometown in Texas, so she clearly benefited from the fact that the Texas Lottery either knowingly or unknowingly sent multiple million dollar+ scratch cards into her area. She and her partner were apparently purchasing cards by the roll, most likely snapping them up as soon as they came i
Sep 7, 2014, 1:33 pm - Scratch$ - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum