Sunday, April 14, 2013
A Brockton woman recently purchased a winning $100K Mass Cash lottery ticket from Bob's Famous Foodmart on Park St. in Stoughton.
A Brockton woman recently purchased a winning $100,000 Mass Cash lottery ticket from Bob's Famous Foodmart in Stoughton, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery website. The $100,000 prize is the jackpot for this game. Rosemarie Kelliher, of Brockton, opted for the "quic pic," and ended up winning big with the numbers 5, 17, 23, 26 and 35, according to the lottery website. The winning numbers were drawn March 29. Mass Cash asks you to select five numbers out of 35. There is a 1 in 324,632 chance of winning the $100,000 jackpot, according to the lottery website.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Patricia E. Clark won a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery's "50X The Cash Game." The winning ticket was sold here in Stoughton.
The game is called "50X The Cash," but the prize a Stoughton woman claimed from the Massachusetts State Lottery this week was significantly larger than 50 times the value of the $10 scratch ticket. Patricia E. Clark, a retired grandmother of 13 and great-grandmother of 13, was the winner of a $1 million prize, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery website. Clark opted for the one-time, lump sum payment of $650,000, and plans to do some housework with the money, according to The Lottery. The winning ticket of "50X The Cash" was purchased at the Tedeschi store on Washington St. in Stoughton. The store receives a $10,000 commission as a result. According to The Lottery website, there is just a 1 in 1,680,000 chance of winning $1 …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Massachusetts is one of 42 states that play Powerball. Did you have any of the winning numbers?
5-16-22-23-29-6. If you had all six numbers (and you had the six in the all-important "power ball" spot), then you won all or a share of $579,900,000. Then again, if you won all or part of $579,900,000, you aren't reading this right now. You're shopping for mansions in Marblehead, driving the Bugatti you bought first thing Thursday morning to get there. The above numbers were the winners in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. It's one of the biggest lottery payouts in history, and as of 11:59 p.m. Wednesday night, there was no word on a winner. Check the Powerball website to see if anyone won, or if they're letting it ride for an even bigger payout on Saturday. Don't tear those tickets up if you missed all six numbers. If you got some …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
With the Powerball jackpot at $550 million (the largest in Powerball history), here is where you can buy your ticket in Stoughton.
22-32-37-44-50 Those were the winning Powerball numbers the last time the lottery was drawn, but there were no winning tickets sold. So, the Powerball jackpot is now at $550 million, and people all over the country are scrambling to buy their lottery ticket before the drawing Wednesday night, Nov. 28. The lump-sum payment would be $327.4 million. It's the largest jackpot in Powerball history. Your last chance to buy a ticket is Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. The drawing airs on WCVB Channel 5 Boston at 11:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Your odds at winning the jackpot? 1 in 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. Your odds at winning $1 million (getting all five numbers, but not the Powerball number)? A much more reasonable 1 in 5,153,633. …
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