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Latest news from the Florida State Lottery is the Powerball Lottery jackpot has hit $170 million. Is this enough to convince you to buy a ticket?
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Unlike in the United States, where lottery wins are taxed, and the full winnings are paid by an annuity over a period of many years or a reduced lump-sum amount is offered, European jackpots are generally tax-free (the lotteries themselves are taxed in other ways) and the winning jackpot is paid out immediately in one lump sum.
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An official of the Bulgarian lottery said manipulation was impossible. A number of scientists and mathematicians have all been quoted as saying the chance of the same six numbers coming up in repeat succession is one in four million. But agreed that coincidences did happen.
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The largest large lump sum payments in European Lotteries include:
* In July 2005, housewife Dolores McNamara, a resident of Limerick, Ireland, won a tax-free lump sum of €115,436,126 ($198 million U.S. dollars) when she hit a nine-week rollover jackpot.
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The public in Bulgaria have responded with a range of shock, curiosity, envy and suspicion to what Bulgarian Lottery Organizers have referred to as an extraordinary coincidence in the country’s national lottery.
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In Israel after multiple weeks of no jackpot winner, the Israeli Lottery had reached a high of 72 million shekels for the draw that took place on Saturday 12th September. Expectations were high that finally a winner would be found, but it did not happen.
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The record annuity-value prizes in the largest state lottery games in the United States have been:
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Coming soon to a store near you: Scratch-off lottery game vending machines that allow players to skip waiting in line. The Florida state lottery is installing 1,000 ticket vending machines at lottery retailers across Florida, primarily supermarkets.
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We’re so excited about this ‘first’ that we’re following the story by the second as it unfolds
Yesterday he told the UK Mirror Newspaper: “I realise there are a lot of questions this brings up and I hope they will be answered on the Friday night follow-up show. For now, Im really excited and really nervous.”
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Note this date in your diary, tonight / today 9th September (yes the same lucky date being predicted all year since today is the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year (09/09/09)
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A great story coming out of China this week is about a woman who recently has won many smaller lottery prizes from draws to scratch cards. However now she’s found a new niche to make some cash. By offering to sell her “luck” for 180,000 yuan ($26,355).
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In the USA the following are the largest single lump sum payouts:
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If last months record European Lottery payout was not enough, pundits are already predicting multiple roll overs in Italys’ SuperEnalotto.
The “Jolly” number gives an additional chance to those who have matched 5 numbers. If they also match the “Jolly” number, they’ll win a higher “5+1″ prize.
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