Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Powerball lottery players are testing their luck on an enormous jackpot for the Nov. 28 drawing.
It certainly could be the most wonderful time of the year for one or more lottery players. Since no one won Saturday's drawing, the Powerball jackpot has grown to a whopping $500 million prize. The next drawing is taking place at night Nov. 28. Powerball is played in 42 states, including Michigan, along with Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands. Learn where you can purchase tickets in Northville by visiting the Michigan Lottery website. Find out your odds of striking big in the game. What would you do with the lottery earnings if you won? Tell us in the comments section below.
Friday, March 30, 2012
You're more likely to get pregnant from a fling than win the lottery. Where does Michigan fall on the "suckers index"? Take the Patch poll.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
The Mega Millions jackpot has leaped to more than half a billion dollars. It's estimated at $640 million for Friday night's drawing — $462 million if a sole winner takes the cash payout. The lottery is a suckers bet. Always has been. But the dream of winning the lottery and leaving behind the daily grind is hard to shake. More than $50 billion was spent on lottery tickets in 2010, and prizes totaled $32.8 billion, according to a Bloomberg ranking of state lotteries. Michigan adults spend an average $312.91 per year on the lottery - the seventh most in the country. (In Massachussetts, it's a whopping $860 per year.) Where does Michigan fall on Bloomberg's Suckers Index? "The Sucker Score is calculated by subtracting the total dollar amount …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
No one matches the numbers drawn Tuesday night in the multi-state game.
You didn't win Tuesday night's Mega Millions jackpot? No worries. Neither did anyone else. Now, the prize amount has grown to the highest-ever in the game's 15-year history. Friday night's estimated jackpot sits at $500 million, already up from Wednesday morning's initial estimate of $476 million. The drawing occurs at 11 p.m., with a 10:45 p.m. cutoff for buying tickets. For those still needing to check, Tuesday's winning numbers were 09, 19, 34, 44, 51 and the gold ball of 24. Two tickets purchased in Michigan won $250,000 for matching the first five numbers. A Northville family found themselves in the same situation earlier this month, but for them, their prize was $1.25 million. They bought five tickets, bearing the same numbers they'…
Saturday, March 24, 2012
The family won the money from five winning lottery tickets in the March 20 Mega Millions drawing.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
A Northville family has just become $1.25 million richer thanks to the Michigan Lottery. The patriarch of the family, identified by the Michigan Lottery only as Big Daddy, his wife of 44 years and his three daughters purchased five winning tickets at the Northville Meijer. The family's tickets had five numbers match those picked in the March 20 national Mega Millions drawing. The odds of matching the five numbers is l in 3.9 million. Here's more from a Michigan Lottery press release: (Big Daddy) explained that he has been playing the same numbers in the Mega Millions game since it first went on sale. The numbers are a configuration of 641, the first number he ever won a Lottery prize on years ago. The lucky purchase consisted of five …
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The tickets were likely bought by the same person, the Michigan Lottery reports.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Northville Meijer sold five of Michigan's nine winning Mega Millions Lottery tickets on March 20 – which amounts to $1.25 million in winnings. According to the Michigan Lottery, it is likely that one person bought all five of the winning tickets purchased in Northville for the March 20 Mega Millions drawing. The tickets are valued at $250,000 each. Michigan Lottery officials won't know for sure until the winner, or winners, comes forward. "We have had instances before when a player had a hunch and bought more than one ticket for a particular drawing," said Commissioner M. Scott Bowen in a press release. "If that is the case this time, this player's hunch has paid off." The winning tickets matched five numbers to win $250,000. To win …
Tashera T
9:29 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
If I did win I would make sure my family was set for life, especially the women in my family would showed me how to be a strong independent women more ›