A 66-year-old grandfather from Cumberland County has come forward to claim his $344.6 million Powerball prize, making him the largest jackpot winner in state history. For over two years, Charles W. Jackson Jr. has played Powerball and Mega Millions with the same numbers twice a week in hopes of winning it big. Little did Jackson know, when he made a routine stop at the Carlie C’s IGA on North Main Street in Hope Mills on Friday, his dreams of winning it big would come true and his life would change forever.  Jackson’s lucky ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing, winning a ..read more

Manuel Franco still says life sometimes feels like a dream and at any moment he is going to wake up. “I can’t believe an ordinary guy like me can ever win the Powerball.” And what a win it was! Franco’s ticket was the sole winner of the $768.4 million Powerball Jackpot drawn on March 27. The jackpot ranks as the third largest in U.S. lottery history behind the world record $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016, and the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won in South Carolina last October. Franco claimed his pri ..read more

What is the format of EuroJackpot? For each entry, players are required to select 5 numbers from a pool of 1-50 PLUS an additional 2 Euro Numbers from a pool of 1-10. Players win or share the Division 1 jackpot by matching the winning numbers drawn with their set of five main numbers and both Euro Numbers. When do EuroJackpot draws take place? Friday night is EuroJackpot time. EuroJackpot draws take place every Friday evening in Helsinki, Finland. The lottery draw takes place at 21:00 local time. The evaluation of the winning lottery tickets is done in Germany and Denmark ..read more

American Mega Millions Jackpot Keeps Climbing The American Mega Millions Jackpot has made the jump into 9 figures! Last night came and went without a Division One Jackpot Prize winner for the 6th consecutive drawing. Friday night’s estimated jackpot is $104 Million. We did see two American Mega Millions Jackpots won in the month of March. What does April have in store? American Mega Millions Update Three jackpots have been won to date in 2019. On January 1, $437 million was won on a single ticket sold in New York; a group of 23 Long Island co-workers claimed that prize. On March 1, a $273 mill ..read more

Third Largest Jackpot in History Lands in Wisconsin A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in the Wednesday night American Powerball drawing to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. Due to strong ticket sales, the jackpot climbed past the initial estimate of $750 million to $768.4 million by the time of the drawing. The lucky ticket holder(s) will have the choice between an estimated annuity of $768.4 million, paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or a lump sum payment of $477 million. The jackpot ranks as the third largest in U.S. lottery history beh ..read more

Draw Result Keeps Lottery Officials Up All Night March 30 marks the anniversary of a great American lottery story that baffled lottery officials and created over 100 massive winners in a single draw. One hundred and ten players somehow managed to beat the one-in-three-million odds of winning a Division Two prize in American Powerball on the March 30th, 2005. Panic was spurred on 11:30pm on the night of the draw when Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery association at the time, took a late night call from a worried staffer. The tally of Division Two winners kept rising as ..read more

Three Winning Oz Lotto Tickets – but Only Two Jackpot Winners Imagine finding out you’d won a massive lottery jackpot TWICE during the same draw. It happened to a Melbourne man this week! Tuesday’s massive $70 Million Oz Lotto jackpot was shared between three tickets. Two entries from Victoria and one from Tasmania won the division one Oz Lotto prize on Tuesday March 26. Each entry takes home a prize of $23,333,333.34. Remarkably, the two winning entries from Victoria were registered to the same player who was oblivious to his double division one bounty of more than $46.6 million. Lottery offi ..read more

Fourth Largest U.S. Lottery Jackpot Up For Grabs in Wednesday Drawing The American Powerball jackpot that started rolling in late December has skyrocketed to a whopping $750 million for the Wednesday, March 27 drawing. Wednesday’s advertised jackpot ranks as the fourth largest in U.S. lottery history behind the world record $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016, the $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won in South Carolina last October, and the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot won in Massachusetts in August 2017. As the Americ ..read more