6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 1/5/2013
Estimated Jackpot Prize P92 million
6/49- 2 winners
Draw date: 12/30/2012
Jackpot Prize P56,969,928 million
6/45- 3 winnersEstimated Jackpot Prize P92 million
6/49- 2 winners
Draw date: 12/30/2012
Jackpot Prize P56,969,928 million
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80
It’s looking like a merry Christmas and a happy new year, for three lucky lotto winners who went to claim their multi-million-peso “gifts” at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) last Wednesday.
The three had struck the winning combination 6-10-14-17-22-26 of the Megalotto 6/45 game last Dec. 19. They each received P10,326,729.60 of the P30,980,188.80 jackpot.
The luck seemed to have come just in time, especially for the two female winners.
In a press statement, PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II described how one of the winners, a 36-year-old mother of two from Bulacan, burst into tears of happiness as she received her check.
She told Rojas that her family recently received a house forfeiture notice from the bank they were getting loans from, after her husband, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia and the sole breadwinner of their family, had stopped sending them money.
While such woes did not hound the other female winner, also 36 years old, from Laguna, she said she and her husband were still struggling in the aftermath of storm “Ondoy” in 2009, so much so that they were still living in an evacuation center.
She told Rojas that apart from investing their prize money in a house and lot and their child’s education, they would also set aside a portion for church donations.
The third winner, a 41-year-old father of five and a call center agent from Sampaloc, Manila, whose six years of betting on the national sweepstakes finally saw fruit, said he would be using the money for house repairs, for his children’s education and a new car.
Source: Jaymee T. Gamil
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Lucky Mistake .....
New Hampshire man wins $2.1 million Megabucks lottery after convenience store clerk sells him the wrong ticket.
Thanks to an honest mistake, Christmas got a whole lot sweeter.New Hampshire resident Scott Bennett hit the $2.1 million Tri-State Megabucks jackpot last week after purchasing what he believed was a ticket for an entirely different game.
On a whim, Bennett, 48, stopped into the Circle K convenience store in his hometown of Hillsborough, N. H., and told the clerk he wanted one ticket each for the Lucky for Life and Megabucks games.
But as fate would have it, the clerk, 42-year-old Nicki Gee, misunderstood Bennett.
“The clerk sold him two Tri State Megabucks Plus tickets," Maura McCann, New Hampshire Lottery director of marketing, told WMUR news. "He never got his Lucky For Life ticket."
After the winning numbers were revealed, Bennett’s son called to tell him that the winning ticket had been sold in the family’s neighborhood.
"I went downstairs, and he was sitting there with the ticket in one hand and the New Hampshire Lottery website on the computer, just staring at both of them," Bennett’s wife, Cathy, told WMUR. "We must have checked them about 15 times. We really truly didn't believe it."
Opting for a one-time lump payment of $1.3 million, the Bennetts say that they will use their sudden windfall to pay down student loan debt for two of their children, send their third child to college, remodel their kitchen, and maybe purchase a few extra Christmas presents.
Other than that, Scott, a property manager, and Cathy, a worker in the public school system, say that they have no intention of quitting their jobs.
"We're going to keep working," Cathy Bennett told the Union Leader. "We both love our jobs."
The Bennett’s aren’t the only one’s to be benefitting from Gee’s mistake. John Collopy, the owner of the Circle K that sold the winning ticket, will receive a $21,500 bonus, and he plans on sharing some of that with his workers, including Gee.
"Those are the kinds of mistake we like to have happen here," Collopy said.
