We’re used to the occasional outburst of lottery mania in Canada, such as when the Lotto 6/49 jackpot reached $54.3 million back in October 2005. But that’s chump change compared to the U.S. Mega Millions jackpot that will be won in tonight’s draw for the multi-state lottery. As of around noon Friday, the lottery estimated [...] Read more »
Across the country, Americans plunked down an estimated $1.5 billion on the longest of long shots: an infinitesimally small chance to win what could end up being the single biggest lottery payout the world has ever seen. But forget about how the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot could change the life of the winner. It’s [...] Read more »
The Danish state-run lottery says it accidentally sent letters to 300 Keno winners falsely informing them that they had each won 28 billion kroner (about $5 billion). “Three hundred of our lottery players who won the lottery, the Keno, received a message saying they had won a sum in the billions. And they never won [...] Read more »
The shock of winning $21.4 million in a lottery was nothing compared to the jolts Craig Henshaw felt later. They were not pleasant. The story of Craig Henshaw, multi-millionaire, began one day last September when Craig Henshaw, high school teacher, went digging through his pockets for the $35 he had left to pay for some [...] Read more »
TORONTO – A retired mechanic who has become a lottery millionaire 50 times over says he couldn’t believe he’d matched all seven numbers in the Oct. 7 Lotto Max draw he has played for years. And the 73-year-old Italian immigrant says news that he’d won $50 million moved his wife to tears. “I was trembling [...] Read more »
Newfoundland and Labrador’s newest millionaires arrived in a limousine to pick up their $21 million cheque. Linton and Olga Barnes won the multi-million-dollar Atlantic Lotto draw this past weekend. The couple received their cheque on Thursday at a presentation in St. John’s on the George Street concert stage. “Ask me in a month’s time, I [...] Read more »