Powerball said the odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292.2 million, so this guy can seriously consider himself lucky.
A US man who thought he’d won $340 million in a lottery is suing the organisers and a website which published his numbers, it has said, by mistake.
The current American Powerball (lower case ‘b’, btw) jackpot is sitting pretty at – wait for it – $725 million, or roughly R13,5 billion.
Shame, the winner was so enthralled that he kept his winning ticket under his mattress before he could make his way to the National Lottery Ithuba offices.
The winner of the recent $2 billion Powerball isn’t the only one who had a cracking week.
In order to win, you need to buy a ticket and then match all five white balls, as well as the red Powerball.
The Ithuba National Lottery said that the jackpot was won on May 29 last year and the ticket is due to expire this Sunday, May 29.
We are firm believers in the fact that anybody who wins a substantial amount in a lottery should immediately cease working.
A North West mother had been struggling with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic until things turned around with a massive lottery win.
South Africa’s latest PowerBall winner, who landed R56 million after buying R45 worth of tickets, isn’t going to splurge on anything silly.
On Friday night, having just been dumped and watched his ex-girlfriend move out, South Africa’s latest multimillionaire received some very good news.
South Africans were watching the PowerBall closely, due to the whopping R119 million jackpot. The winning numbers certainly stirred up some emotion.
The KwaZulu-Natal man is now the biggest winner in the history of PowerBall Plus, and the biggest winner ever to have bought his ticket online.
If the story of a single mother, who has worked as a domestic worker for more than three decades and is drowning in debt, winning the big one doesn’t bring a smile to your face, I consider you dead inside.
A 66-year-old man’s granddaughter gave him a fortune cookie. Years later, he hit the big one using the numbers he found inside.
And it will be split three ways. Which means at least three people will be practicing their jetski back flips for the rest of their lives. Two of the three Powerball winners were from New Jersey, and one in Minnesota. Because three tickets matched all six numbers, Powerball officials said the three winners would split […]
Now YOU could have enough money to own a government and land your private jet at Waterkloof! The combined value of the $222 million Powerball (tomorrow) and $139 million MegaMillions draw (today) is R3.2 billion. Get tickets here.
We’re closing in on a record here, people, as Powerball fever is starting to grip the world again. With tickets available online, the fever has hit, and publications as big as Huffington Post are even reporting on the mayhen.