What are the odds of that? Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots both exactly $196 million today
/As I put the upcoming jackpot draw into the Silver Lotto’s Powerball draw box from the official site just now, I did a double take.
Read MoreAs I put the upcoming jackpot draw into the Silver Lotto’s Powerball draw box from the official site just now, I did a double take.
Read MoreIf you thought the craze for playing online lotteries was just a phase, the world is embracing online lottery games more than ever.
Read MoreThe Minnesota Lottery decided to ask their 115,000 fans on Facebook about what they would do if they won a big jackpot.
Read MoreSo you've looked at the Silver Lotto System's many winners - including the $22.2million guy, and thought, hey, it's just a lucky break... a coincidence. What you didn't know is this...
Read MoreThink you know what you should do immediately after you win the lottery? You won't believe the advice this man gives you in this video. After the shock has worn off, he tells you to make a difficult decision. But when you do, it will impact positively for the rest of your life. This advice starts early at 0:26 in the video.
When finance firm Ameritrade did a survey on lottery winners, they discovered a few surprises. While most people expect lottery jackpot winners to spend lavishly, the opposite seemed to be true. Check out the video below and see what the survey revealed.
Read More$15 million winner Michael Carroll spent all his UK National Lottery jackpot in 8 years and was hoping to get a job as a garbage collector. AP
Open any news site, and after a while you'll start to read stories about bigtime lottery losers.
Read MoreAn off-the-wall survey recently found that nearly 4 people in every 100 would give up their partner for a $10,000 lottery win. And the result gets worse as the winning money goes up.
Read MoreEach year more than a half a billion lottery dollars go missing when tickets get lost in glove compartments, washing machines, desk drawers and sometimes even literally in the trash. And it all adds up to a massive windfall for the lotteries.
Read MoreSince I started putting up polls here on the Lotto Life, I've found the results to be a fascinating insight into how you think. And some of the answers are not what I expected.
Read MoreWould you get excited about your jackpot win? Sure you would, it's quite natural. Lottery winners go through certain stages of excitement, happiness and satisfaction, say British researchers. But they found the patterns had some surprising side effects.
Read MoreFor the past three years a financial website has bought $1,000 worth of scratch-off tickets in an experiment to discover more about lottery consumer buying habits.
Read MoreRobert Carter wins a $1 million Powerball prize from the Virginia Lottery. Prizes like this are possible and available to Silver Lotto players every week.
Dave said the other day that he knew how my System worked. I listened intently.
Read MoreThis map from Mega Millions shows where the latest 8 highest jackpots were won in the United States. Mega Millions is one of America's two big jackpot games, and the only one with Match 5 prizes up to $5 million (with the optional Megaplier). Jackpots start at $40 million and other prizes range from $2 to $1 million, or even more with the optional Megaplier.
READ MORE: What Is The Mega Millions Megaplier, And How Does It Increase Your Lottery Prizes?
This could be the most extraordinary lottery story ever told. Stefan Mandel, a Romanian math expert, spent years finding a way to win a large lottery jackpot. Then suddenly in Melbourne, Australia, he chanced on the exact conditions for his formula and sprang into action. What happened next was the stuff of dreams. Watch to see exactly how he did it, and the result of his enormous bet. It'll simply leave you in astonishment at his audacity and huge ambition.
READ ALSO: The Extraordinary Story Of A $27 Million Winner Who Won Playing An Obvious Strategy
Dan and Christine Bruckner won $208 Million in the New York Mega Millions jackpot, and chose the lump sum payment.
Lottery winners are often in shock when they finally bank their life-changing wealth. They get advice from everyone, from well-meaning family members to financial advisors.
One of the biggest decisions which winners have to make quickly is whether to take a lump-sum cash option, or yearly annuity payments.
Read MoreJohn Robinson reaches for the winning Powerball ticket which gave him and wife Lisa a third share of a $1.58 Billion jackpot in 2016. PHOTO: Today
Winning the lottery is different from anything else you've experienced in your life. And if you want to keep the jackpot, you better know how to handle a large sum of money.
Read MoreAs you win larger lottery jackpots - like Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt's third share of the Powerball's $1.5 billion jackpot above - something extraordinary happens.
Read MoreA week back we surveyed to find out how much you would tip your lottery clerk if you won a large lottery jackpot. The amount was astonishing, even based on the small number who responded.
Simon Kim, owner of the Harbor Bay 76 gas station, smiles while holding the ceremonial check he received for selling a winning $93 million lottery ticket in Alameda, California. 41% of you would tip this owner $1,000 and more. Photo: SFGate
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