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W.Va. Lottery player wins 9th big lottery prize

Friday, July 10th, 2009

I think I have probably played about 2,000 scratch offs in my lifetime and the most I have won is $156.00.  I think I need a new lucky penny as mine is keeping me poor.

scratch lottery ticket1 W.Va. Lottery player wins 9th big lottery prizeCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Brenda Bailey is still on a roll. This week, the 60-year-old South Charleston woman claimed her ninth West Virginia Lottery prize, $7,000 in the Gem 7s instant game. That brings her total winnings since last September to $159,000 from five instant tickets.

Lottery officials said Friday that Bailey has claimed a total $165,800 in prizes from instant and online games since 2000.

She’s not the only lucky one in the family. Her husband Richard claimed a $6,000 instant game prize in January and a $10,000 prize last September.

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Georgia man wins big lottery prizes twice in a week, including $777,777 prize

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Okay I have been playing the lottery since I was old enough.  I have scratched at least a bazillion tickets and I have never won over $50.00 and here this guy gets $1,000 and then follows it up with $777,777.  Where’d the love man give me my chance!

ga 777superluckyweb1 160x300 Georgia man wins big lottery prizes twice in a week, including $777,777 prizeAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A 62-year-old man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7′s. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game. The carpenter said he felt lucky a week ago and now feels a little bit luckier.

Fritz said he didn’t realize he had won the big prize at first because he wasn’t wearing his glasses.

The first win came in the instant game Extreme Green.

Fritz and his wife have not decided what to do with the money.

Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com

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Australian belatedly wins $10 million lottery

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Holy Cow Batman, I’ve just won 10 million dollars!

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PERTH, Australia (AP) — An Australian student worried about her parents’ money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago, a state lottery agency said.

The student, living in the west coast city of Perth, received the winning ticket for a draw on July 22 last year as a gift from her father, Western Australia state agency Lotterywest said.

She had been unaware that it would have expired after 12 months, it said in a statement.

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Yellow lobster is a 1 in 30 million

Monday, June 15th, 2009

doc4a3151a58fee40834864691 Yellow lobster is a 1 in 30 millionLook Ethel, we won the lottery, wait no, it was a yellow lobster!

EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — This lobster will catch your eye, but not because you’re imagining its tail dipped in butter. It is bright orange and yellow, even though it’s never been near a boiling pot.

Specialists tell The Boston Globe it’s called a “yellow lobster” and it’s one in 30 million.

The lobster now named Fiona was recently caught off Canada. It was given by a friend to Nathan Nickerson, the owner of Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham, on Cape Cod.

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