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Harold Diamond, a 80-year-old retired principal, has gained a brand new status, which is the biggest winner in state lottery history, since he nailed the largest ever NY lottery jackpot as reported on Monday. The man who once activated as a school principal in Sullivan County drew the golden ticket from a $326 million Mega Millions game two months ago.

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This week will be a great week for lottery punters playing Mega Million and Powerball because the jackpots will become really big. Mega Million jackpot is reaching $89 million to be drawn on Friday, Jan 25 and the Powerball will be $110 million.

On Tuesday, January 22nd, nobody bought the winning numbers of 16-39-7-54-11 with 13 as the Mega Number. The jackpot offered on that day was $89 million to be taken in a lump sum payment for 26 years or $50 if taken cash, before taxes.

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This could be disappointing yet exciting at the same time. For those expecting to win in the Powerball drawing on Saturday, Nov 17, you might be a bit disappointed because there were no winners matching the tickets drawn on that day. The drawn numbers were 3, 15, 27, 58, and 59, with the Powerball number 20. The result made the jackpot skyrocket to $250 million for the next draw next week! WOW!

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More and more lottery winners got their luck this week. Together with the biggest jackpots won in Oz Lotto a few days ago, there were more punters getting big prizes from the lottery games around the world. One of them is a man from Fresno who scooped $30.5 Millions Fresno Mega Millions jackpot in October. The winner came forward last week to claim his winning from the ticket purchased last month, said an official of the California Lottery on Monday.

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Hurricane Sandy might have made many things cripple in New York but the news about the Mega Millions jackpots will hopefully bring a little hope to the winners. The New York Mega Millions drawing on Nov. 2, 2012 made some lottery players new millionaires as there was someone whose ticket matched the six numbers drawn for the prize of $32,000,000.

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There were no jackpots won on Wednesday for the Oz Lotto, Powerball and also Mega Million drawing on Wednesday night. A lot of lottery players hoped to win one of those three big prizes but it seems that Wednesday is not the big day yet. No one matched with all numbers to win the first prize although the second tier and other smaller amounts were won.

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Sandeep Singh’ ex girlfriend must be very sorry for dumping him just days before he won the lottery and became a millionaire. The 22 year-old man from Cape Cod said that his girlfriend left him and made him broken hearted but now he is very happy as he becomes one of the winners of the Mega Million jackpot worth $30 million.

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Who says that winning a lottery is such an instant and easy process? It is not and it takes a lot of hard work and efforts to make players scoop the money. Lottery players have to be persistent and patient if they want to get the prize. Willie McPherson and Cristopher Manzi have proven that it is right. These two old friends just won $14 millions from the Mega Million after they play together for more than 25 years. It took a quarter century, how amazing!

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The bill about whether or not a multistate lottery like Mega Million winner should stay anonymous seems to raise people’s debate and arguments. Some people agree that the winners should have the right to remain unidentified unless they want to be open but others think that they have to publicly announce their winning.

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It has not come to the end of September and a lot of people, especially from California, have got so many fortunes from lottery games. On September 14th last week, a Californian won $12 million jackpot in Mega Million and in the previous week, on September 11th, another Californian scooped around $120 millions in the same game.

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