Florida Lottery:
The Florida Lottery announced March 3rd, 2010 that BILLION DOLLAR BLOCKBUSTER Scratch-Off winner Tahily Bravo, 21, of Miami, claimed her $1 million prize at Florida Lottery headquarters. Tahily was very excited to claim her prize. "I have always dreamed of starting my own business, so this would be a great help to me," she said. Bravo chose the one-time, lump-sum payment option for her winnings, in the amount of $650,000.00. Congrats to this young lady on her winnings!
Mega Millions:
There was one jackpot-winning ticket in the March 5 Mega Millions drawing. The winning ticket, which was bought in Long Beach, California, wins a jackpot estimated at a whopping $133 million! WOW! Let’s hope this lucky winner claims their prize soon!
Powerball:
The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to get bigger! Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, a lucky ticket in Idaho matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $1 million cash. In addition, 1,036,563 tickets across the nation won a total of $8,436,318 in prizes!
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $170 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, March 10th drawing will be an estimated $81.8 million.
California Lottery:
"Make Me a Millionaire," the California Lottery’s TV game show, awarded 12 lucky contestants a total of $92,000 in cash and prizes on this week’s show! A big shout out of congrats to these lucky players! With the progressive jackpot increasing $200,000 each week, next week’s Millionaire game contestant will have a chance to win $1.4 million.