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  2. Lottery jackpot records - Wikipedia

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    €371.1 million (US$394.6 million) was the largest single-ticket jackpot in Italy's SuperEnalotto lottery, won on 16 February 2023. €98.4 million (US$112.0 million) [ 79 ] was the largest jackpot in Spain 's La Primitiva (not to be confused with El Gordo de la Primitiva ), won by a single ticket holder on Thursday 15 October 2015.

  3. Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) - Wikipedia

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    He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]

  4. Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Every ticket holder would be assured of winning something. This type of lottery, however, was no more than the distribution of gifts by wealthy noblemen during the Saturnalian revelries. The earliest records of a lottery offering tickets for sale is the lottery organized by Roman Emperor Augustus. The funds were for repairs in the City of Rome ...

  5. EuroMillions - Wikipedia

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    A jackpot of €190 million (£170.2 million) was won by a single ticket holder in the UK bearing the winning numbers - 7,10,15,44,49 and the lucky numbers 3,12. The highest jackpot ever won in the UK, and second highest jackpot to date, was £195,707,000 (€230,300,000), on 19 July 2022.

  6. Richard Lustig - Wikipedia

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    Lustig's seven lottery wins have been featured on the financial web site CNN Money. [7] His book Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery was ranked #3 on Amazon's self-help book list in 2013. [2] In an interview with ABC News, Lustig explained that his method is to re-invest all of his winnings back into the lottery.

  7. Category:Lottery winners - Wikipedia

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  8. William Post (lottery winner) - Wikipedia

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    Post bought one of the winning tickets of the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988, worth $16.2 million. The total jackpot was more than $32 million, the second highest total in state history; the other half went to a group of 16 employees of the Westinghouse Electric Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh. [4]

  9. Joan R. Ginther - Wikipedia

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    Joan Ginther was an American four-time lottery winner. She first won the lottery in 1993, when she won $5.4 million in Lotto Texas (equivalent to about $11.8M in 2024). Her next win came in 2006 when she won $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire scratch-off. Her third win happened in 2008, when she won $3 million from a Millions and Millions ...