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Darn day for a New Mexico resident who purchased a scratch-off ticket about a month ago. The man grew in bliss and became ecstatic over the two winning numbers for $250,000 each which apparently proved to be nothing but an unfortunate misprint. It all looked suspicious from the very first time he had a quick look to the receipt, and that is because the maximum prize for a single card is supposed to be $250,000.

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The proud winner of £45 million dollars, Matt and Casey Topham intends to build a 5 million eco-home. The lucky couple would also install sound-proofed cinema, garish waterfall and solar paneled pods. However, after learning about their dream home project, the people residing in the neighborhood don’t seem very happy about the whole building an eco-home idea. Matt Topham is a decorator and a former painter and his wife, Casey is a former supervisor of the Iceland supermarket. This newlywed couple won the lottery in February 2012; they used to reside in their Stapleford Council house worth of £89,950.

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A ten months old child Tafsir who was in the arms of his aunt was literally crying hearing the round of applause. Yes, it was tears of joy.  His mother had won the chance of buying a brand new three-bedroom townhouse in Ellicott City at a price much lower than the market rate. 

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Winning lottery is a sheer life changing experience. It can make your wildest dream come true. If you won a lottery, it could simply change your life. Can you imagine retiring to bed one fine night with all financial worries and the very next morning you wake up and find that you have won couple of millions? It is an amazingly life changing experience.

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When the office lottery pool of Jennifer Maldonado hit a Powerball jackpot of $1 million, she could not forgive herself for not paying her share of a meager $20. However, her co-workers were not so insensitive and could not let her depart without that amazing feeling of winning.

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One of the mysteries surrounding the Powerball jackpot lottery of $338.3M was solved on 25th March, which is that New Jersey is the location where the highly-desired ticket was sold. However, there was another bigger mystery to be solved. Who purchased it? 

It was announced by lottery officials of New Jersey that the ticket had been sold by a liquor shop in the city of Passaic, which is 15 miles from New York City towards the northwest. However, there was no update from the winner who has only a year to come forward and lay his claim over the prize. 

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You must still remember Regina Jackson, the winner of $1 million jackpot who wanted to donate most of her winning to the community of Reach Out Dakota who has helped her go through her hardest time. Yes, Regina Jackson was a lucky lottery punters who got a lot of assistance from the community when she lost her job.

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Lottery winning has nothing to do with luck, with the place where you buy the lottery tickets or when you purchase them. However, there are several towns or cities in the world where more lottery punters get more chances to win. One of the places in the world selling more winning tickets is Skibbereen, a small and beautiful coastal town in County Cork, Ireland. This town has sold jackpot winning tickets worth of approximately 19 million euros. 

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This week will be a great week for lottery punters playing Mega Million and Powerball because the jackpots will become really big. Mega Million jackpot is reaching $89 million to be drawn on Friday, Jan 25 and the Powerball will be $110 million.

On Tuesday, January 22nd, nobody bought the winning numbers of 16-39-7-54-11 with 13 as the Mega Number. The jackpot offered on that day was $89 million to be taken in a lump sum payment for 26 years or $50 if taken cash, before taxes.

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The need to protect lottery winners’ identities seems to increase after several violent incidents that happen to lottery winners causing them to be scammed, abused and even killed. Most states in the US and other countries in the world announce the names of the lottery winners in order to show the reliability of the lottery and attract more punters but now some states considered keeping the names anonymous.

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