When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Lottery jackpot records - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_jackpot_records

    €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. Lottery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery

    Accompanying the lottery is the betting game, an illegal form of lottery among the people, which uses the results of the jackpot of the legal traditional lottery as the prize-winning results. In Hanoi, the "agent" system of the betting game has developed along with traditional lottery stores and iced tea stalls, operating quite openly. [ 47 ]

  4. Jack Whittaker (lottery winner) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_(lottery...

    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]

  5. Category:Lottery winners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lottery_winners

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file

  6. EuroMillions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroMillions

    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.

  7. Lotteries by country - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_by_country

    These games are administered by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, which is a consortium of the five regional lottery commissions owned by their respective provincial/territorial governments: Atlantic Lottery Corporation (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador), Loto-Québec , Ontario Lottery and ...

  8. Lottery fraud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_fraud

    The couple who found the ticket were charged with theft and making a false representation, and received an 11-month suspended sentence. [14] [15] Several cases of insider fraud by retailers have been uncovered by investigators. In 2011, a shopkeeper in Watton, Norfolk retained a winning lottery ticket and later claimed the £156,000 prize ...

  9. Lottery ticket hypothesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_ticket_hypothesis

    The term derived from considering the tunable subnetwork as the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket; the chance of any given ticket winning is tiny, but if you buy enough of them you are certain to win, and the number of possible subnetworks increases exponentially as the power set of the set of connections, making the number of possible ...