Mega Millions winning numbers worth $201 million

A large pot of gold is still available after St. Patrick’s Day. Tonight’s MegaMillions jackpot is estimated to be worth $201 million. There was no jackpot winner in the latest Mega Millions drawing that took place this past Tuesday night, but 18 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize, including 2 from New Jersey. The jackpot has been steadily growing since Feb. 1, when megamillions.com reports a $93 million prize was claimed by winnersin Michigan and Indiana. Mega Millions has now gone 12 drawings without a winner being selected. Yahoo News reports the largest payout for a single lottery ticket tookplace in February 2006, when a Powerball jackpot with an annuitized payout of $365 million was won by eight people who worked together at a meat processing plant in Nebraska. In that case, they opted for the $177 million cash payout. MEGA MILLIONS WINNING NUMBERS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011: 14, 33, 34, 54, 56 Mega Ball = 37 The New Jersey Lottery has used the slogan, “It pays to dream.” And dreaming of luxuries to spend your winnings on is half the fun of playing. For instance, according to aolnews.com, 110-acre private islands in Thailand are available starting at $160 million. In November 2006, Jackson Pollock's"No. 5, 1948" and Willem de Kooning's "Woman" sold for an estimated $140 million and $137.5 million. You could afford to pay for one of them and have funds to spare. For those who would rather be more conservative with their cash, $2 million will buy you and 10 friends a trip into space. Winning a lottery prize can change your life, but people always need to handle their winnings with care. Lotterypost.com reports Curtis Sharp Jr., an air-conditioning technician from Newark, N.J., who won $5 million playing Lotto in 1982. Sharp filmed commercials for the New Jersey Lottery Division, became something of a local celebrity — and blew his money on cars and fine living. Before long, he was borrowing against his future payout checks. Eventually the cash disappeared, andhe moved to Tennessee and became a minister. According to thatmoney.com, 80% of all lottery winners file for bankruptcy. That's because they don't know the true power of money and they don’t appreciate how crucial it is to make solid decisions. Stay within your means. Invest, but it only takes one dollar to win.

Mega Millions winning numbers worth $201 million

A large pot of gold is still available after St. Patrick’s Day. Tonight’s MegaMillions jackpot is estimated to be worth $201 million. There was no jackpot winner in the latest Mega Millions drawing that took place this past Tuesday night, but 18 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize, including 2 from New Jersey. The jackpot has been steadily growing since Feb. 1, when megamillions.com reports a $93 million prize was claimed by winnersin Michigan and Indiana. Mega Millions has now gone 12 drawings without a winner being selected. Yahoo News reports the largest payout for a single lottery ticket tookplace in February 2006, when a Powerball jackpot with an annuitized payout of $365 million was won by eight people who worked together at a meat processing plant in Nebraska. In that case, they opted for the $177 million cash payout. MEGA MILLIONS WINNING NUMBERS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011: 14, 33, 34, 54, 56 Mega Ball = 37 The New Jersey Lottery has used the slogan, “It pays to dream.” And dreaming of luxuries to spend your winnings on is half the fun of playing. For instance, according to aolnews.com, 110-acre private islands in Thailand are available starting at $160 million. In November 2006, Jackson Pollock's"No. 5, 1948" and Willem de Kooning's "Woman" sold for an estimated $140 million and $137.5 million. You could afford to pay for one of them and have funds to spare. For those who would rather be more conservative with their cash, $2 million will buy you and 10 friends a trip into space. Winning a lottery prize can change your life, but people always need to handle their winnings with care. Lotterypost.com reports Curtis Sharp Jr., an air-conditioning technician from Newark, N.J., who won $5 million playing Lotto in 1982. Sharp filmed commercials for the New Jersey Lottery Division, became something of a local celebrity — and blew his money on cars and fine living. Before long, he was borrowing against his future payout checks. Eventually the cash disappeared, andhe moved to Tennessee and became a minister. According to thatmoney.com, 80% of all lottery winners file for bankruptcy. That's because they don't know the true power of money and they don’t appreciate how crucial it is to make solid decisions. Stay within your means. Invest, but it only takes one dollar to win.

Mega Millions Winning Numbers Announced for Tuesday March 15 | NBC Los Angeles

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the Tuesday night drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will grow to $201 million.
  

Eighteen tickets -- three each sold in California and Illinois, two in New Jersey, and one each in Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas -- had five numbers, but didn't have the Mega number.
  
The three sold in California are each worth $168,654 while the other 15 are each worth $250,000, California Lottery officials announced. California law
requires most major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.
  
The numbers drawn tonight were 10, 11, 12, 28, 43 and the Mega number was 45. The estimated jackpot was $172 million.
  
The drawing was the 12th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
  
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 175,711,536, according to the Mega Millions website.
  
The Mega Millions game is played in 41 states and the District of Columbia.

Via Mega Millions Winning Numbers Announced for Tuesday March 15 | NBC Los Angeles

Two locals claim big prizes in Hoosier Lottery | Monticello man, Peru woman win cash

Monticello resident Richard Bowsher recently won $77,777 playing the Hoosier Lottery

Peru resident Idajane Morton recently won $100,000 playing the Hoosier Lottery.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WLFI) - A Monticello man and a Peru woman recently claimed cash prizes in the Hoosier Lottery.

According to a Hoosier Lottery news release, Richard Bowsher of Monticello presented a winning scratch-off ticket worth $77,777 to Hoosier Lottery headquarters. Bowsher won the top prize on the Jeweled 7s scratch-off game.

Bowsher purchased his $5 ticket from Casey's at 1506 North 6th Street in Monticello last Saturday. Bowsher owns an auto repair shop and teaches automotive mechanics at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette.

A Miami County woman also claimed a winning prize recently at Hoosier Lottery headquarters. Idajane Morton of Peru won $100,000 playing the Colts $100,000 Touchdown game.

The Hoosier Lottery said Morton is the fourth lucky player to win the game's top prize. The remaining three top prizes have yet to be claimed. Morton is originally from Maine and said she plans to use her winnings to visit family in there.