A former 1999 Powerball winner, Timothy Schultz, interviewed Denise Banks-Wilson (center) and husband Calvin Wilson (right) as they open up their lives in this video podcast.
Read MoreThese four identical Quick Pick lottery numbers were all made within seconds of each other from the same lottery machine. Photo: The Lotto Report
Here's a lesson for anyone who thinks that the tickets a lottery computer chooses will give them a good chance of winning.
Read MoreThese Euromillions winners pose in an Aston Martin. Have they made more friends since they won?
I don't know many wealthy people personally. They tend not to make friends easily because they often use people for what they can get from them.
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Want a clear idea of how the lottery organisations place their winning tickets in each game? The Illinois Lottery didn’t award all the prizes in some games, and this video explains why. VIDEO: Chicago Tribune
A wheelchair street vendor in Singapore sells lottery tickets. Read here about another wheelchair user in Illinois who wasn't so lucky.
Here's the full testimonial from one of my Silverites about how he missed out on a cool US$175,000.00.
But there's some good news in this story, too...
Read MoreThe Seidens were very relieved to find their lost ticket to claim the $1 million jackpot from the Illinois Lottery on Friday. Photo: Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune
The number of news items where owners of a potentially vast lottery fortune have misplaced their tickets is becoming quite common.
Read MoreJohan S. wrote me and said: "Ken, someone in the advertising business once said that half his money was being wasted, but he didn't know which half! I feel the same about playing the lottery. How do I know if if I'm spending my ticket money effectively? Which half am I wasting?"
Read MoreCathy Seiden bought the ticket at her regular Jewel-Osco in nearby Woodridge, something she said she does every couple of weeks.
She gave the ticket to her husband, and they forgot about it until one of Cathy's co-workers told her that a winning ticket was sold at that Jewel.
Ray Hermez holds his winning ticket at the Illinois Lottery headquarters.
A Skokie resident became an instant millionaire when he won an Illinois Lottery 'Fabulous Fortune' lottery yesterday.
Illinios Lottery officials confirmed that Ray Hermez won $1,000,000 when he scratched off the ticket he purchased at the Shell station in Skokie.
This modest gas station sells the most winning Illinois Lottery tickets in Chicago. Owner George Thomas, inset.
Should you buy your tickets from this popular winning store in Chicago? What gives it the edge over any others in the city?
Through his years of work at McDonalds, Chicago man Yancy Hicks had a dream. When his ticket turned up trumps in the 2008 Illinois State Lottery and he won $1 million, Yancy saw his chance. He went from employee to owner, but not at the place you'd expect.
Chicago 51-year-old Yancy Hicks followed his lifelong dream and bought a Subway franchise after his lottery win.
He kept working at McDonalds for a further four months, splurged on a red Corvette for $30,000 cash, but then got down to serious business -
It's unsettling. I read today that the common bedbug may be resistant to most pesticides.
That means these little blood suckers are getting impossible to kill.
Over the last 15 years the bed bug has spread rapidly. A single fertilized female can infest an entire apartment building. And 10% of all New Yorkers have bed bugs in their homes and at work.
And there seems to be no cure.
Except one. And I know what it is.
Put this home on your list to buy after your win!
PRICE: $21,000,000 (Was $29M)
LOCATION: Highland Park, Illinois, USA.
COUNTIN': 56,000 sq ft
SELLER: Michael Jordan, basketballer
GAME TO WIN: Powerball (Illinois) - $151,000,000
BALANCE AFTER PURCHASE: $130M
Some of the 48 winners in May's $107 million Pennslyvania Powerball. Their final amount was just $2.2 million each. Photo
There are some huge multi-million jackpots in lottery games these days. Just look near the top of the Lotto Life blog in the right hand column to see the enormous and increasing totals in the world's games.
But many people will think twice about playing if the jackpot is below a certain figure.
So if a week is less than their goal, they may decide not to play at all.
The good news is that most people think this way, which opens up the potential to Silver Lotto players. Here's why...
Merle Butler, right, stands next to his wife Patricia and holds up the winning lottery ticket.
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