Florida Lottery Johan Fourie played the same numbers for 12 years before winning a $4 million jackpot. You can bet he's spent some time thinking how to spend it!
How are you going to spend your lotto winnings? Here’s why you need to think about this before you play.
Read MoreThose large jackpots you see advertised at many big lottery games? Well, they can be misleading, because those enormous figures are not what you'll get in your pocket once all the excitement has died down.
Read MoreOn the face of it, the decision seems a simple one. Take your lottery win money in all cash, or spread the payments out over 20-25 years or whatever the lottery offers? Watch if you want to know the difference.
It's great to hear the story behind a win. While eating at the Subway shop in the Valero, retired elementary school principal Harold Diamond noticed the Mega Millions jackpot flashing on the Lottery terminal. The 80-year-old from Wurtsboro, New York, and his wife were waiting out a storm. So he decided to get ten $1 Quick Pick numbers for that evening's drawings. The rest is history.
It's a sad fact of life that the moment you win a sizeable sum of lottery jackpot money, some of the world is out to take it from you. The problems can come from your lotto store, or a money-crazed group of relatives. Watch these examples to see what can go wrong at the worst possible moment.
I once met famous Australian artist Ken Done at his store in Sydney.
Before Covid I travelled a lot. I visited Switzerland a while back. The highlight of my trip - for its uniqueness - was the exotic supermodel stepping out of a bright red Ferrari next to the historic church our tour was visiting.
Read MoreYou don’t need to win the lottery to change and improve a lot of your daily life. I rarely put up with anything negative these days, and as a result have broken a few bad habits.
Read MoreMaybe a $217 million jackpot could be yours with today's tip.
Many lottery players are puzzled by the way the Silver Lotto System gets astounding results again and again. While I'm not giving away any secrets with the following information, it is a way that will help you win more.
Read MoreJason Kurland, a lottery attorney from law firm Certilman Balin, talks to PIX about about who can claim the prize, and the ownership of tickets and shared winnings.
In this promotional video Jason advises winners on how they can claim and manage their winnings.
Many lottery players (not you!) live in a bliss-filled world of ignorance, believing all kinds of strange and twisted myths about tickets, chances and luck. Thank goodness for us to set them straight!
Read MoreIf you ever stepped into our home and listened to my wife and I talk, you could be forgiven for thinking we were from another planet. We talk in a secret code.
Read MoreI've only had one lottery disaster. It was at a time when I visited another lotto shop in our city. I knew something was wrong when the total come up... it was $50 more than I normally paid.
Read MoreA while back my wife and I visited a mansion. It is the home of my daughter's partner's parents in Australia where we were visiting, pre-Covid, at the time.
And it's an impressive home, all marble floors and large rooms, a bit like the example photo above.
Read MoreMagician Derren Brown once predicted the UK National Lottery.
I’m going to talk about something I don’t believe in. Horoscopes. I think they can help a lot of people in their daily lives.
Surprised to hear that? Am I finally starting to believe in the supernatural after a lifetime of scoffing?
Read MoreThey purchased water parks, entertainment companies, did bikini shoots and pro wrestling. These are some of the strange buys that lottery players have made when they win big. So USA Today got on their trail and found that there are some weird purchases done when money is no object. Anyone for a two-handled coffee mug?
Today's post is about this coming week... and what lottery games have the best chances of winning in the next 7 days.
Because each week about this time, I pull my chair away from the three 27" Mac screens on my home office desk, and breath a sigh of relief.
Read MoreBillionaire Mark Cuban gave some wise lottery-based pointers to the eventual winners of the billion-dollar Powerball in 2016, but one part of his advice was directly opposite to what Kevin O'leary had suggested here. Turned out it was about whether you should take the Lump Sum or Annual Payments. Who do you believe? Find out and watch now.
I was waiting in line at my local supermarket to collect my latest lottery winnings ($800 + change that day). And my jaw dropped as I watched a guy fill out his tickets at the counter.
Read MoreOnce you've bought the mansion, a big screen tv for every room and a garageful of luxury autos, you wonder what you can possibly buy next that's really interesting. Take a few tips from the ideas from Dubai where they have mastered the art of big spending. And many of these items you'll only see in that country.
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