Category: 6/49 Lottery

Before being sentenced to 25 years in prison, Eddy Tipton apologies in front of the court for his actions. The computer program that a former lottery security official used to rig drawings worth millions of dollars in Iowa and other states was more expansive than investigators first discovered, court records filed last week show.

The lottery can be quite serious at times, especially when millions are on the line. However, let’s take a step back and have a look at some fun facts from over the years of the world’s National Lottery.

One Ontario woman is in a legal battle with her ex-boyfriend after the lottery winner moved out without telling her and took a $6.1-million winning lottery ticket with him.

A syndicate from Neath Port Talbot has won more than £25m on the National Lottery’s EuroMillions draw. The syndicate began playing together after chatting one Sunday morning when they were feeling lucky.

Winning the lottery once in a lifetime is improbable, but winning twice in one day just seems like crazy talk (1 in 44,000,000!) However, Kimberly Morris of Wake Forest, North Carolina has defied these monstrous odds.