A round of applause to Florida Lottery
The Florida Lottery announced its all-time record high figure this week which reflects a 32.75% increase over the previous sales record of $539m achieved in March last year. The Fl Lottery is expected...
View ArticleAre you the missing Lottery Winner?
Ireland's newest lotto millionaire has just three days left to claim their lotto prize! Lotto HQ is keen to track down the owner of the golden lotto ticket that won €1m back in November last year. One...
View ArticleBig ‘cheers’ to Southbury, Connecticut
Gerald Rutledge joined the elite lotto winners club on Monday to claim Connecticut’s first $2,000,000 Mega Millions grand prize with a winning ticket for the Tuesday draw on January 26th. The Mega...
View ArticleIt’s good to share – sometimes
Lynn Poirier, a $1m lottery raffle winner, told jurors she ‘never, under any condition, any place, anywhere’ promised to share half of her lotto winnings with her partner. Pretty unequivocal evidence....
View ArticleLightning Strikes
As excitement builds for the massive $900m grand prize Saturday draw, Richard Lustig has kindly agreed to impart some of lottery-winning knowledge to the world. The chances of getting struck by...
View ArticleLooking a gift horse in the mouth (not)
Officials in the state of California are warning an unidentified lotto winner that they are going to lose the value of their winning lotto ticket – a vast $63m – if they don’t claim their lotto...
View ArticleLotto luck of the… Scottish
That feeling happened to Arthur Howard of East Kilbride recently. The 73-year-old taxi driver can finally relax after scooping a £1m Euromillions raffle prize declaring to his wife: “Hen, we’re lotto...
View ArticleSchools set for unexpected lottery jackpot
A verified claim, or an actual, legible winning lotto ticket was not produced a day after the 5 pm deadline had passed, a Pop-u-Lotto spokesman said yesterday. "We're still looking into claims and it’s...
View ArticleNot all habits are bad!
It’s when retired City of Edmonton worker, Mauro Bagnariol, hit the grand prize jackpot and won half of the $60m Lotto Max. Bagnariol bought his tickets each week at the northwest Edmonton 7-Eleven and...
View ArticleMarylanders test their mettle
January 14th, 2016 will go down in history as a fantastic day in the history of Salisbury Fine Metal Artisans, in Easton, Maryland. Twenty-five company employees put their money together to form a...
View ArticleNewfound wealth in Newfoundland
The community on the south-east coast of Newfoundland is home to Stephanie Lewis and Keith Hayman, as part of the Atlantic lottery, and they purchased their winning lotto ticket at the North Atlantic...
View ArticleGrass is greener for lotto players
The top lotto prize was not collected in either of the two Lotto draws – Wednesday lotto draw and Saturday lotto draw – last week. This means more than three quarters of the lotto draws have failed to...
View ArticleFlorida lottery player? You could be a millionaire…
The lucky lotto winner person who bought a winning Powerball jackpot ticket in Florida has yet to claim the massive grand prize, a Pop-u-Lotto spokeswoman said Monday. The lotto winner has time to come...
View ArticleDon’t sit on your hands, sit on a fortune
Were you minding your own business in a Limerick shop back in November last year? Were you feeling lucky and fancied a flutter on the lotto? Did you grab a Quick Pick Euromillions ticket, and then put...
View ArticleWhat do extra numbers make? Not prizes
In October 2015, the National Lottery added ten numbers to its popular Wednesday lotto and Saturday lotto draws. Two years earlier the price of a lotto ticket was increased to £2. The number change...
View ArticleAs they say in the scouts – be prepared!
We try and impart our lotto winning knowledge to help you, should you scoop the grand prize draw and hit the lotto jackpot. Yes, the odds of joining the lotto millionaires club are a gazillion-to-one...
View ArticleSome things can’t be thrown out with the dishwater
The grandmother at the centre of a £33m lotto jackpot drama had claimed to have put a winning lotto ticket with the winning numbers of the record-setting lotto jackpot through the washing machine! She...
View ArticleProhibition a thing of the past for lotto winner
The solitary winning lotto ticket is for Friday night's Lotto Max draw and was purchased in the Owen Sound area of the state. A total of 33 MaxMillions prizes of $1m each were available in the Friday...
View ArticlePlay the Pennsylvania Lottery
The winning lotto ticket correctly matched four of the five white balls drawn – 04, 13, 31, 36, 52 – but not the red Powerball number 8, to win $150,000. The winning lotto ticket was sold with the $1...
View ArticleCheck the numbers
The draw for a £16m Euromillions Tuesday jackpot draw has now taken place. Is one of the lucky lotto tickets yours? Have you checked your results online yet? In your jeans pockets? Is the winning lotto...
View ArticleRich pickings in NZ
A lucky lotto player has scooped a whopping $7.1m in the Wednesday Powerball lotto draw in New Zealand. The winning Powerball First Division lotto ticket was sold in Tauranga at AJ's Lotto store. It is...
View ArticleMoney can buy you love
Lottery winners don’t usually struggle to find attention but finding true love for someone who has won the lotto may be trickier. But, using a lonely hearts column to find a lotto winner must be a...
View ArticleNot quite rags to Riches
A family from Tennessee is being sued by a former prisoner after winning the Powerball Lottery jackpot. John and Lisa Robinson won a chunk of the $1.6bn Powerball jackpot and then appeared on the Today...
View ArticlePizza delivery man goes large on lotto
Joseph Carillo diligently rubbed off the numbers on his Set for Life lottery scratcher ticket on the January 28th Thursday lotto and chose the lump sum option of $696,000, instead of the $4,000 a month...
View ArticleLottery win will warm the cockles
Mohanad Ashkar is Edmonton’s latest lotto-winning millionaire. He won big on the lotto on January 22nd‘s Friday Lotto Max, plus and an additional $10 on the game’s main draw. Ashkar said; “I used...
View ArticleSome good news for his wife
“I was up early Saturday – my normal routine – and went for a haircut, picked up a newspaper and checked number against the Ontario Lotto Max lotto tickets I’d purchased earlier,” said Harry, who is...
View ArticleMany lotto winners, Many helped
One jackpot-winning ticket from the Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 Monday draw – worth $225,000 – has been won in Fayette County. The winning lotto ticket matched all five balls drawn – 01, 03, 04, 25, 29...
View ArticleLotto lightning bolt strikes twice
In the new-harder-to-win lotto game, a UK winner has matched six numbers – 15, 16, 23, 39, 48 and 59 – to scoop the grand prize. The huge lotto win comes just 24 hours after the winner of £24m...
View ArticleWinners, winners, everywhere
We sent out a Pop-u-Lotto representative to investigate. “What was the question again?” “I’m sorry I don’t where the nearest lotto ticket store is.” “No I haven’t seen a lotto ticket lying around...
View ArticleFrom bad, to worse, to…
For recent lotto millionaire Marie Holmes, becoming a lotto winner has resulted in only one thing; stress! Since the mother of four won the lottery last year she has been involved with a series of...
View ArticleUnexpected triple whammy
Ernest Jones purchased a Powerball lotto ticket, matching four of the white balls and the Powerball. The prize for this particular win is normally $50,000 but when he arrived to claim his lotto...
View ArticleA Floridian is insanely wealthy – and doesn’t know it
Do you play Powerball Lotto? Do you play Powerball Lotto in Florida? Did you buy a Powerball Lotto ticket for the huge Powerball lotto draw in January that produced three winners who shared a vast...
View ArticleBig Lottery Winner.?
What would you do if you scooped big on the National Lottery, Lotto, Powerball, Euromillions results…? Pop-u-Lotto have put together a list of things you could pick up with your lottery winnings –...
View ArticleDon’t keep up with the Joneses
In the UK, trying to keep up with the Joneses is a hobby for many people. But could it spell economic disaster to live next door to a lotto winner? If you find yourself living adjacent to a lucky...
View ArticleLife in the fast(er) lane
Arthur Howard, who celebrated his 74th birthday recently, collected his lotto millionaire cheque at the Crutherland House Hotel with his 75-year-old wife, Emma. He has traded his taxi in for a luxury...
View ArticleWho’s the luckiest?
Where is the luckiest place in the UK? Where do you find the most lotto winners? And, while we’re at it, where is the unluckiest lotto winning place in the country? And we’re not necessarily talking...
View ArticleAll your Irish Lotto news
As of yet, there’s no new Irish lotto millionaire as the lotto jackpot heads towards a total of €6.5m. Some lucky lotto punters did get lucky though. The grand jackpot prize will now roll over to...
View ArticleVilla fans to finally win something
The Aston Villa Lotto is part of the Lotto Network and the Birmingham-based Premier League outfit are having their worst season in living memory, rooted to the bottom of the table, and nine points from...
View ArticleKeeping Lotto win in the family
The odds of a lotto scratchcard win are one in 3m and these twins – Laura Poorman and Lisa Toton – from San Ramon beat the odds to become $6m jackpot lotto winners! Lotto winner Laura said; “I suppose...
View ArticleBet on Balls
The Irish punter bet 10, 14, 22 and 27 would be chosen in Saturday’s lotto draw. The lucky winner scooped an €11k prize from a €3 bet and defied odds of almost 4,000/1 when the four numbers were drawn...
View ArticleWoohoo, I don’t have to share
The anonymous lotto winner scooped the prize in the Saturday Lotto Plus 2 draw. He purchased his winning €5 Quick Pick lotto ticket at Mulligan’s Londis & Post Office in Athlone, County Westmeath,...
View ArticleA lotto win with heavy equipment
Robert Goertzen from Kelowna, BC, is the latest Lotto 6/49 winner and says he felt like he'd shot to fame as soon as he checked his lotto ticket at the Real Canadian Superstore in his town. “I felt...
View ArticleLotto leads down wrong path for UK mum
A lotto-winning mum has been caught selling heroin despite scooping the £700,000 grand prize jackpot. Nina Hughes was caught by a police sting distributing class A drugs – heroin and crack – despite...
View ArticleLotto Winning brother share
Earlier in the week Pop-u-Lotto reported on a pair of lotto-winning brothers who both won at the same time. One became a multi-millionaire, while the other walked away with just $7! It’s happened...
View ArticleHow big is your Lottery bucket list?
One of our favourite things at Pop-u-Lotto is encouraging our readers to compile list of what they would buy if they won big on the lotto. Now a couple from County Clare will have an opportunity to do...
View ArticleCanadian workers score big
A $1m lotto win has been shared by eight Mission co-workers in Canada. The group of Save-On-Foods employees – who call themselves the ‘magnificent seven – plus one’, scooped the 6/49 guaranteed lotto...
View ArticleI thought I won
Frenchwoman spends big after (thinking) she won lottery. Thinking she had won big on the Euromillions lottery, a 46-year-old French woman did what any self-respecting lotto winner would do – she went...
View ArticleA building site for sore eyes
A labourer from the Manila slum will soon be able to get to sleep much more soundly than before – in his own house – after becoming the country’s newest lotto multi-millionaire after claiming the P6m...
View ArticleRiches to Rags
A lotto winner has managed to blow a $45m fortune! You win some, you lose some. That’s certainly a logic Michael McLean from Woodburn, St Thomas, USA, will be thinking for some time now./ Nicknamed...
View ArticleNational Lottery rollsover
The National Lottery lotto draw is set for quintuple rollover this weekend, with an estimated grand prize jackpot of £19m. Wednesday's famous big money balls didn’t materialise and the prize pot has...
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