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No tickets matched the winning numbers in the Thursday, February 26 Italian Superenalotto draw. The winning numbers were 10-19-25-35-51-73 and Jolly Number 66. The next jackpot on Thursday, February 28 is an estimated €23 Million. Click here to join now.

About the Italian Superenalotto

The Italian SuperEnalotto is one of the highest-paying lottery games in Europe. With its broad number range (pick 6 out of 90), rollover draws – and huge jackpots – are actually quite common. In fact, the game is so popular in its home country that Italians reportedly spend over €27 Billion a year on lottery play. Additionally, unlike any other European game, the Superenalotto holds draws three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) – giving you MORE chances to win each week, for a much lower cost.

There was no winner in the Friday, February 27th Euro Millions draw to win the €43 Million jackpot.  The winning numbers were 5-9-37-44-45 and Lucky Stars 6-9.

The Euro Millions Jackpot is an estimated €100 Million on Friday, March 6.

Nine Participating Countries; Nine Combined Prize Pools!

Euro Millions is a transnational lottery game with nine participating member countries: the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland. Draws are held once a week, every Friday, and offer a minimum Jackpot of €15 Million.

In recent years, however, with more players from the newer member countries coming in, Euro Millions Jackpots have grown to as high as €183 Million! (Twice, at that!) These two immense jackpots (as well as
the recent €130 Million just last February) were shared by several winners – but the highest jackpot ever won by a single player was €116 Million.

Twelve Ways to Win
The good news is, you can still win millions in Europe’s most popular lottery – even when you DON’T win the Jackpot.  Euro Millions’ 12 prize divisions are pari-mutuel – which in simple terms means that the prizes for each division are not fixed. The amounts vary depending on that week’s ticket sales, the jackpot amount and the number of winners in that division. The bigger the Jackpot, the bigger all the lower division prizes become as well!

Considering all this, plus the fact that all prizes (the jackpot included) are free of government taxes, and paid out in a single lump sum (unlike other lotteries which pay out the Jackpot amount over several years), the Euro Millions lottery is undoubtedly a top contender for the world’s biggest, most profitable prize draws.

Raleigh – Sometime today sales for the North Carolina Education Lottery will surpass $3 billion since the lottery first began selling tickets on March 30, 2006.

“Hitting this sales record in under three years is a testimony to the people of North Carolina who have supported the education lottery. It is also a testimony to the staff of the lottery and the lottery retailers across the state who have been dedicated to making as much money for education in North Carolina as possible,” said Tom Shaheen, executive director.

Source: Mooresville Tribune

February 25, 2009 (WPVI) — Did you win?

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 17-32-42-49-56 Powerball: 11 (seventeen, thirty-two, forty-two, forty-nine, fifty-six; Powerball eleven) Power Play: 4

Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $150.2 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $173 million for Saturday.

Source: 6 ABC WPVI-TV Philadelphia

There were no jackpot winners Wednesday, February 25, 2009 USA Powerball draw, but 975,909 players won more than $8.4 Million in lower division prizes. The winning numbers were 17-32-42-49-56 and Powerball 11.

The next Jackpot on Saturday, February 28 is now estimated at US$ 173 Million.
About USA Powerball

Powerball is one of America’s two big Mega-Jackpot games, and used to hold the record for the biggest Jackpot payout of all time – US$365 Million in February 2006 … until overtaken by Mega Millions’ US$390 Million payout in 2007.

Every Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time, five white balls (the main numbers) are drawn out of a drum with 59 balls and one red ball (the Powerball) out of a drum with 39 red balls. Players win the jackpot by matching all five white balls (in any order) PLUS the red Powerball.

The second prize (won by matching the five white balls) is $200,000 paid in cash – and any time you match the red PowerBall, you can win a prize as well.

DES MOINES, Iowa – A Marshalltown cafeteria worker has stepped forward to claim $1 million he won playing Powerball.

Iowa Lottery officials say 48-year-old Ricky Rushton claimed the prize Tuesday after checking his ticket at a convenience store, three days after all of his numbers except the Powerball number matched Saturday’s drawing.

Source: KTIV.com

HAMILTON — “Here’s your winner,” chirped Teresa Pike on Monday each time she handed over another lottery ticket at Tom’s First Ward Cigar Store.

With the Mega Millions lottery jackpot breaking $145 million for tonight’s drawing, people stood in line to buy tickets, all hoping for a little luck.

Source: Dayton Daily News

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Lottery announced today that two players matched all five winning numbers in the Tuesday Fantasy 5 drawing and will share a $215,760.62 top prize.

One of the winning tickets was sold at the Publix at 4265 Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte. The other was sold at President Supermarket in Coral Gables.

Source: News-Press.com

There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the multistate Mega Millions lottery — to $171 million.

The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Tuesday night’s drawing.

Source: WIFR.com

TORONTO — In recent weeks, Martin Neva couldn’t shake the feeling that he was about to win something.

The retired accountant from Sudbury, Ont., and his wife Marlene buy lottery tickets every week, but they’d never won a prize of more than $100.

Source: CANOE.ca