None of the tickets sold for Wednesday’s Hoosier Lotto game matched all six numbers drawn, so the jackpot grows to an estimated $5 million.
The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $14 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said.
A total of 59 tickets matched five numbers to win $6,073.50 each; 3,982 tickets matched four numbers for $73 each; and 80,344 tickets matched three numbers for $5 each.
The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday night: 4-19-29-32-44-49.
There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the Illinois State Lottery’s Lotto game – to $18.75 million.
The rollover occurred because no player matched all six winning numbers from Wednesday night’s $18.5 million drawing.
The next Lotto drawing will be Saturday night.
The New York Lottery’s latest raffle-style game, the Turkey Raffle, was drawn today, Thanksgiving Day, and made five instant millionaires.
New York’s Turkey Raffle is a raffle game offered by the New York Lottery, with a limited period of availability and a limited number of $10 tickets.
Tickets went on sale Nov. 3, and ticket sales were to stop Nov. 26 or earlier if the supply of tickets ran out.
The winning numbers were announced at 10:00 AM this morning, Nov. 27, 2008.
Each raffle ticket contains a unique, nine-digit number issued sequentially across the state from the Lottery’s central computer, starting with number 100000000.
The rollover occurred because none of the tickets sold for Tuesday night’s $06 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball number. The next drawing will be Friday night.
The winning numbers from Tuesday night’s drawing were: 2, 11, 22, 51, and 52. The Mega Ball number was 46.
The Texas Megaplier was 2.
George Smith is the epitome of a good boy. For the past five years, the 48-year-old Meaford, Ontario man has been buying Super 7 lottery tickets with his mom.
They’ve split the cost of the relatively cheap entries but it’s never really paid off.
Until now.
George, along with his mom and dad, came to Toronto Tuesday to claim the big prize in last week’s draw — a $15 million jackpot.
The winner isn’t your flamboyant, screamingly excited, happy dance type. He’s a quiet spoken man with a modest manner about him. And that’s what he presented to the public as officials gave him a cheque with more zeros on it than he or his family have ever seen.
His adventure began when he stopped into a local convenience store after coming home from work Sunday night. “The first ticket I put in and the thing said ‘you won $15 million!’ And then I went to the girl at the counter and I said, ‘I think I won $15 million.’”
But in his laid back way, it was the clerk who seemed more excited at the news than he did. At least outwardly.
“She was just having a real problem containing herself,” he recalls laconically. “She was so excited.”
But despite his outwardly calm demeanour, George was also stunned.
“I was rather shaking at the time,” he remembers now. “I called my parents and I don’t think they really believed me,” he shrugs. His 77-year-old mother Wyn was alarmed by the call, when George first asked to speak to his father.
“And [then] I said, ‘I guess I better go home and tell my wife.”
But she didn’t believe him, either.
But what about Ray Smith, the forgotten dad and husband in this monetary miracle? “My wife keeps reminding me she won it, I didn’t,” he points out. “So I am just hoping she’ll share it with me.”
George has been playing the lottery with his mom for five years but has actually put a few bucks on a chance at big money since way back in the days of the Olympic draws. He won about $90 in that effort — and that only happened once.
So what do they plan to do with the windfall? George is pretty modest about that, too. They’ll be paying off several family mortgages and getting rid of some pesky student loans.
But one thing won’t change — he doesn’t intend to give up his job as part of his family owned business, building houses in Collingwood.
Now, he can lay the foundations for one of his own, hoping to start construction in the spring, something he’s never been able to afford before. “I guess that’s no longer an issue,” he laughs.
As for the money changing the kind of people they are? Don’t count on it. “I had to get some dress pants and shoes because my old ones don’t fit,” George notes. “I went to Wal-Mart and some things never change.”
Smith is well aware his twist of fortune comes at a time when the economy is in crisis, homes aren’t selling and the markets have taken a deep dive.
But he plans to help out as best he can. “We’re not recession proof,” he jokes, “but we’ll do our best to stimulate the economy!”
One lucky person quit worrying about the plunging markets, layoffs and other economic woes Saturday night after winning the Wisconsin Megabucks lottery.
State Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage said a single ticket matched all six numbers and won the jackpot, worth $9.1 million if the winner chooses to take the payments in 25 installments, or worth $5.1 million if the winner takes the one-time lump-sum cash payout.
Odds of winning the Megabucks jackpot are 1 in 7 million, Bohage said.
The Wisconsin Lottery says the winning ticket was purchased at the purchased at the Q-Mart store at 2420 Calumet Drive in Sheboygan.
The winner has 180 days to come forward and claim the prize.
A 56-year-old Kansas City woman wins a $1.7 million Missouri Lotto jackpot.
The Missouri Lottery announced Tuesday that Carmen Salva bought the Nov. 5 ticket at a Fast Stop in Kansas City by using the Quick Pick option to select the winning numbers of 20, 24, 26, 31, 35 and 42.
Lottery officials say 265 tickets worth $1 million or more have been sold since Missouri Lottery sales started in January 1986.
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