What the Lottery (Millions) Can Do to Your Marriage

Who’s the one person that knows everything about you, the one you’d share everything with? Your spouse, right? Or at least that’s the theory. What happens in a marriage, however, when something as big as the lottery and its jackpot are involved? Well, we’ve witnessed numerous stories of people playing together and winning together. Some made headlines with their...

Trashing the Treasure: When Winning Lottery Tickets Get Thrown Away

Stories about careless lottery winners are easy to find. Some, however, surpass expectations and almost entirely defy common sense. Today, we’re about to look at several such stories. Hold on to your hats, we’re about to go on a wild ride of negligence bound to have severe consequences. Imagine playing the lottery diligently year after year. You always use the same numbers, buying a...

Voltaire: France’s Best Known Philosopher or a Lottery Scammer (Or Both)?

A prolific writer and philosopher whose mind saw things ahead of his time, Voltaire is also known for a couple of less reputable endeavors. Few people know that he was a spy for the French government and became incredibly wealthy by rigging the lottery. Voltaire and the Lottery: Falsification in the Making In 1729, Voltaire came up with a plan to change his fortune by exploiting...

The Tonda Dickerson Story: How Winning the Lottery Led to Disaster

Most people imagine that winning the lottery would be the best thing to ever occur in their lives. Unfortunately, reality can often be a lot grimmer than our wildest imagination, and the Tonda Dickerson story stands as evidence of the claim. If you're looking for real horror stories, you're in for a ride. So, buckle up and prepare to be gagged by just how incredibly outrageous this one...

Gifted Lottery Tickets and the People Who Won from Them

How do you imagine coming in possession of a winning lottery ticket? Most people will go to a nearby retail venue and get a ticket on their own. Did you know, however, that gifted tickets have resulted in big prizes on several occasions? Such stories of lottery ticket winning show us one crucial thing – you don’t need a strategy, and you don’t even need to be an avid lottery...

Lottery Jackpot Considerations: How Is It Calculated?

The lottery world is so exciting and mesmerizing! If you’re anything like us, you’d want to know the ins and outs of just about every single lottery-related aspect. One of these aspects that probably gets people most excited is the lottery jackpot. Winning lottery jackpots – who doesn’t dream about that? How exactly, however, is the size of the jackpot calculated? What does it...

How Often Do Lottery Numbers Repeat?

Ah, the mystery of lottery drawings and lottery numbers! We all try to make sense of the situation; we work hard to improve our odds of winning a prize. This desire pushes us to seek patterns and opportunities to come on top of the system and beat the impossible statistical odds. Many lottery players wonder about the frequency of winning numbers repeating themselves. How often do such...

What Happens When a Lottery Winner Dies?

It’s a situation that most of us don’t want to think about, but eventually, our time on this planet is cut short. In such instances, relatives and loved ones are left dealing with the loss. They also have to address practical issues related to inheritances and financials. Imagine the following scenario – a winner of the lottery is at old age at the time they became a millionaire....

The 50-Year Old Ever-Winning Ticket Lottery Mystery Solved

Are you into riddles? We have an interesting one for you, and while it has been resolved, it’s been getting mathematicians curious for five decades. Here’s the story of the ever-winning lottery ticket and how its mystery was finally uncovered. The Ever-Winning Lottery Ticket The theoretical riddle was set up in 1969 by the English mathematician Adrian RD Mathias. Is there a lottery...

What Are the Most Popular Films That the Lottery Has Funded?

Have you ever heard of the BFI film fund? If you live in the UK, you’re probably familiar with the concept. We have an explanation for everyone else. In its 25 years of existence, the UK National Lottery has funded the creation of over 500 films through BFI. As you probably know, national lotteries dedicate some of the money generated through tickets sales to good causes. In the UK, the...