The Powerball jackpot is still slowly climbing upwards, after yet another week passes with no jackpot winner being found. This means that the estimated jackpot for the midweek draw taking place later on tonight in Orlando, Florida is $151 million, a sum which will start to really pique interest from lottery players across America! This is a result of the jackpot rolling over for the last eight draws, and no jackpot cap means the jackpot can sky rocket in no time – just ask Missouri couple Mark and Cindy Hill!
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Tonight sees the final Irish Lottery draw of January 2013 take place and as there hasn’t been a jackpot winner this month many players are crossing their fingers and hoping to win the top prize on offer tonight. This is because the Irish Lottery jackpot available to win tonight is estimated at €10.5 million as no players have been able to match the six numbers drawn in the results to win the jackpot however that could all change tonight.
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The New York Lotto is enjoying a long rollover spree which shows no sign of stopping. The jackpot has been rolling over since 13th October 2012, when it was last won. Now, the jackpot has smashed $12.5 million and is estimated at $12.8 million in time for the next draw later on today. At this rate, the current top prize could beat the jackpot which was last won, which reached an amazing $16.5 million after rolling over for a staggering three months!
The American state lottery that is the Pennsylvania Lottery is set to be managed by the British firm Camelot in a deal that looks to be confirmed this week. Camelot, who run the United Kingdom’s National Lottery, put in a contract to run this American state lottery a while ago and since this British company was named as the lone bidder in mid-November last year not a great amount of information has been disclosed about this deal.
Winning the lottery is something players dream about however there are a number of prizes waiting to be claimed by the winners that are set to expire if the ticket holder doesn’t come forward before the last date to claim. There are now three unclaimed UK Millionaire Raffle prizes that will expire soon if the prizes aren’t claimed before the cut off period. All three of these prizes are each worth £1 million and expire on the 23rd January if the ticket holders don’t come forward before then.
The Florida Lottery is due to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their first ticket sale on Saturday 12th January 2013, and to mark the occasion they have re-branded their famous flamingo logo. Over the last 25 years, the Florida lottery has gone from strength to strength, raising a total of $24 billion for education in the state, and paying out an amazing $37.7 billion in prize money. If this isn’t cause to celebrate, what is?
The annual Mega da Virada draw was one of the final lottery draws of 2012, taking place on 31st December 2012. Having amassed a record breaking jackpot of R$244,784,099 by the time the winning numbers were announced, excitement amongst players across Brazil was running high, as players shared their results – and wins – across social media networks instantaneously! In the end, three lucky winners shared the grand prize.
This month has seen a massive twelve players of the UK Lotto scoop a share of a multi-million pound jackpot to become brand new millionaires in the festive season! This is the highest number of millionaires made in one month on the UK Lotto since June 2012, which saw fifteen individual ticket holders share a total monthly jackpot of £30,529,301. However, this month’s grand total of millionaires is especially remarkable given that each winner will be entering 2013 as the UK’s newest millionaires!