Winning the lottery can get you killed, divorced, shunned from your family, and a permanent address living in a van down by the river. I just finished reading an artile called “8 lottery winners who lost their millions” and it made me realize maybe the truely lucky lotto players are those who never win!
Rhode Island’s state lottery is getting in on the New Year’s Eve Raffle craze this year, offering a top prize of $1mil, 10 prizes for $10k, 100 prizes for $500, and 500 prizes for $100.00. Each raffle ticket costs $20.00. There is a 1 in 120,000 chance to win the million. …read more.
The powerball is ushering in the New Year with a huge jackpot for Wednesday night’s drawing. I’m glad to see we get one last mega jackpot out of the Powerball before new game changes take affect January 7th 2009.
The changes include $20mil base grand prize minimum, odds of winning any prize have increase about 1/2%. The location where the PowerBall drawing takes place is also moving to Floriday. Stay tuned for more changes as they are announced, and play this current jackpot for all it’s worth. Maybe you’ll get some New Year’s Eve luck 
Virginia lottery officals are praying in the streets that there is some sort of late miracle surge in tickets for this years New Years Eve Raffle. So far, lottery officials say they have not even sold 1/2 of their goal of 400,000+ tickets. Lottery officials stated they needed to sell 300,000 tickets tickets to break even, and had sold around 190,000 tickets so far.
The last New Years Eve Raffle Virgina held in 2007 sold out 8 hours before the drawing.
A single individual has won the Enormous Mega Millions Jackpot. The winner was from Ohio. No other details have been released.
There were no lucky winners for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot Tuesday night. Lottery officials said that over 900,000 prizes were won, however, the jackpot was rolled over from $128mil to $146mil. With this jackpot closing in on $150mil lottery sales are expected to be extremely heavy for Friday night’s 11PM EST drawing.
Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 2, 17, 22, 32, 51 and the Mega Ball number was 35.
The buyer of a Hot Lotto ticket in south-central Kansas is $12.2 million richer, but still hasn’t came forward! I hope they didn’t lose their ticket or throw their gum away in it.
No winning tickets were able to match all six of the Florida Lotto numbers Saturday night, lifting the Lotto jackpot to $18 million for this Wednesday’s …
None of the tickets sold for Saturday’s Hoosier Lotto game matched all six numbers drawn, so the jackpot grows to an estimated $5.5 million.
Powerball numbers for 11/29/2008 – The Powerball numbers for 11/29/2008 were: 5, 33, 36, 39, 55, Powerball 21, Powerplay 4
