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Can’t win if you don’t play.

The North Carolina lottery commission voted unanimously Monday afternoon to add MegaMillions to its lineup, giving the state a second multi-state game with eye-popping jackpots.

MegaMillions tickets could start selling as early as Jan. 31. North Carolina has sold Powerball tickets since 2006, the year the state lottery began, with two drawings a week on Wednesday and Saturday.

The addition of MegaMillions will give players two more drawings a week, Tuesday and Friday, in which the jackpot can balloon to $200 million or more. Lottery officials are betting that the additional game will boost revenue in a market that is constantly looking for new options to offer players. Neighboring states Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia have already voted to sell two games, and South Carolina is scheduled to vote next Tuesday.

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Can you school the lottery? Dunno. But these folks seem to think so:

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Sounds like a good plan.

An 82-year-old widower who lives in D.C., has 10 children and 47 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, won the recent $144 million Powerball drawing.

But his lawyer says the lucky guy wants to remain anonymous.

Read more at QCityMetro.com.

Good luck, lottery players:

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You’ve got approximately six months to claim your prize.

A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at the Panhandle Food Store and Valero gas station sometime between last Sunday and Wednesday.

The owner of the winning ticket had not claimed the prize as of Friday, according to state lottery officials.

The store is located at the corner of U.S. 521 and S.C. 160 and is a hot spot for commuters traveling north into the Ballantyne area of Charlotte, other places in North Carolina and into Lancaster, S.C.

The winning ticket matched all five Powerball numbers and the PowerPlay multiplier. The winner has 180 days to come forward and claim the prize.

Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.

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