Bob Brown’s amazingly successful lottery playing career is one of the most intriguing and best-guarded secrets in the world. Unfortunately, we are unlikely to ever discover his success formula as this extraordinary Australian man died in 1993, having lost his long battle with cancer. Bob Brown became a world-famous phenomenon after winning several big lottery […]
A lucky lottery player could claim the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history when the next Mega Millions drawing takes place on Friday night. The lottery’s jackpot has climbed for months without a winner, reaching $970 million for the upcoming drawing. To win the money (or a lump sum option worth roughly $716 million), someone […]
OK, so your numbers didn’t come up in the drawing. That means it’s time to toss your lottery ticket, right? Wrong! Many lotteries offer second-chance drawings on non-winning tickets. Fill out the form on the back, send it in, and you’ll have a bonus chance to be a winner. On June 8, 2010, a TheBalance […]
People talk about entering the lottery as if it were just one game, but every state has a selection of lottery games—and they each have different odds of winning. Read the odds before you spend your money to ensure you’re maximizing your chances of winning. By picking games with better odds, you boost your chances of […]
No rational person would ever enter the lottery. The chance of picking the right six numbers and hitting the jackpot in the UK’s Lotto is approximately one in 14m. But even in something based purely on luck, a strategy can be found. If it was mandatory to play the lottery, how would you enhance your […]
In 2020, one anonymous player was able to win more than R153 million in a lottery run by operator Ithuba. Busisiwe Msizi, Head of Corporate Relations at ITHUBA, said in a statement that they are “thrilled to have another major jackpot winner”, and adds: “We encourage all our players who played PowerBall PLUS to check […]
When choosing a lottery, one assesses two main parameters – the value of the super prize and the probability of winning. These values are inversely related to each other: the greater the probability of winning, the smaller the super-prize, and vice versa. The formula is simple: if the lottery is won often, the big super-prizes […]
Do you want to participate in the lottery with the highest chance of winning? Then SA Daily Lotto is made just for you! It’s one of the most popular daily lotteries hosted in South Africa and has quite a few players. Although there are several lotteries hosted in South Africa, the Daily lotto is one […]
The US citizens love to play the lottery: Americans spend $80 billion a year on tickets, compared with just $11 billion on going to the movies. Not surprisingly, there are also those who try to cheat the system. The crunchy cipher Gerald Selbee has always had a love of maths and riddles. At school the […]
Sometimes luck turns even its favourite favourites away. In 2018, Paul White, 49, who won the Powerball lottery jackpot in 2013, was involved in a terrible car accident and was seriously injured. His girlfriend’s daughter was also killed in the accident. 18-year-old Lauren VanReese of Andover, Minnesota, got thrown from the van, which had rolled […]
