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Thousands of Illinois Lottery Pick 4 players win big – Chambana Today

CHICAGO (Chambana Today) — Thousands of Illinois residents won a share of around $2.4 million in prizes yesterday in the Illinois Lottery’s Pick 4 game.
The winning numbers for the Pick 4 evening drawing on Thursday, November 13, were 7-7-1-7, with a FIREBALL number of 7.

Nearly 4,000 winning tickets were sold for the drawing, with almost 90 players each winning more than $1,000. The largest prize of $27,000 was won by an iLottery player, while the second-highest prize of $25,000 was won on a ticket purchased at Norridge Exxon, located at 8500 West Lawrence Avenue in Norridge, Illinois.
Winning retailers are also get a piece of the pie. Each retailer who sold a winning ticket will receive a 1% selling bonus based on the prize amount of the winning ticket sold at their location.
Winners have one year from the draw date to claim their prize. The Illinois Lottery encourages all lucky winners to sign the back of their ticket and keep it in a safe place until they are ready to claim their prize.

Pick 3 and Pick 4 plus FIREBALL are Illinois-only games with two draws daily. To play both Pick 3 and Pick 4 games, players can select their numbers and a style of play, and then choose the amount they would like to wager on the draw. Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings are conducted daily at 12:40 PM and 9:22 PM CST.
Zeno is a News Reporter for Chambana Today and comes to us with almost three years of sports reporting experience. He was a Journalism major at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When not working, he enjoys playing tennis and spending time with friends and family. Zeno loves the Tottenham Hotspur soccer team and U of I sports. Local favorites: You can find Zeno at Panera or any other local coffee shop.
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Winning Mega Millions numbers for $980M jackpot to be drawn Friday night – NBC Boston

Attorney Andrew Stoltmann says some of the most vicious legal fights over the lottery come from office lotto pools gone wrong. Here’s what you need to know before you buy in.
Will this be the drawing that ends the record-long Mega Millions jackpot drought?
The winning numbers for the Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $980 million will be drawn Friday night. The drawing takes place at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT/8 p.m. PT.
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The Mega Millions is in the midst of the longest streak without a jackpot winner in the game’s 23-year history. This will be the 40th drawing since the last jackpot hit in late June.
The current jackpot, which was initially announced at an estimated $965 million, is the eighth-largest in Mega Millions history. A potential winner would also have a cash option of $452.2 million.
The seven jackpots in Mega Millions history worth more than the current one were all above the $1 billion mark. The game’s largest jackpot victory was $1.602 billion in 2023.
While Tuesday’s drawing didn’t produce a jackpot winner, there were a few multi-million-dollar prizes awarded for matching all five white balls. One ticket sold in Arizona fetched $5 million, while one ticket sold in New York and another in Iowa each secured $3 million.The drawing had a total of 809,030 winning tickets across all prize tiers that combined for more than $27.9 million in winnings.

The Mega Millions is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings taking place on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The odds of winning the jackpot are a minuscule 1 in 290,472,336.

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Another Liberland? Verdis lets crypto users purchase ‘citizenship’ – Protos | Informed crypto news

The Free Republic of Verdis, an unrecognised micronation that bears more than a passing resemblance to Justin Sun-led Liberland, is now officially accepting cryptocurrencies, including SOL and USDC, as a means to gain citizenship. 
Founded in 2019 by then-14-year-old Daniel Jackson, Verdis occupies a 125-acre stretch of land between Croatia and Serbia.
Originally “home” to just four people, today it claims to have over 400 official citizens and is hoping to grow its population through its two-tier e-Residency program.
The country offers a €25 ($29) per year “e-Resident Basic” package and a €50 ($58) per year “e-Resident Plus” option, both of which can be paid for with SOL, USDC, or VERDIS.
Anybody wishing to become a permanent fully-paid-up Verdis citizen is required to take the more expensive of the two.
Not only that, they must also meet a set of criteria, specifically:
Finally, applicants are made to pay a “one-time processing fee of €300” and even then, they can be rejected with no refund provided.
According to the official Verdis website, crypto investments in the country will also guarantee citizenship. Investors will also be given “Verdisian land through a land fund,” the “ability to operate global business from Verdis,” and “preferential treatment” when distributing land ownership. 
Verdis' e-Residency program has begun to accept payments for $VERDIS and $SOL! You can learn more about the e-Residency program and pathway to citizenship at https://t.co/3jNMEVlbmF pic.twitter.com/kM8B5Gyhft
Read more: The jailed $6B bitcoin fraudster who wanted to be Liberland’s queen
However, Jackson told Protos that Verdis has no plans to make crypto legal tender, and that the Euro will remain its official currency for “logistical and security reasons.”
“We are merely just expanding payment opportunities for those that want to get involved,” Jackson said. He added that the micronation would consider accepting crypto payments for government fees and make itself more attractive to crypto investors.
Jackson, like Liberland’s founders, claims that Verdis is “terra nullius” (land belonging to no one), due to a border dispute between Croatia and Serbia that has left the land unclaimed. 
Authorities from the two nations have frequently disrupted Liberland’s plans, and appear to be intent on doing the same to Verdis. Indeed, in 2023, Croatian police arrested several self-proclaimed “Verdisians” before deporting them from Croatia. 
Verdis called this act an “invasion” that “violated international law” and claims to be preparing a legal response.  
Like Liberland, getting to Verdis comes with its own set of problems. At certain times, it can only be accessed by boat, and visitors are also warned to avoid traveling from Croatia on foot “due to potential landmines in the area from the Croatian War of Independence.”
Verdis is also branching out into crypto, albeit not to the same scale as Liberland, which has elected multibillionaire Chinese crypto founder Justin Sun as its prime minister five times in a row. 
Read more: The jailed $6B bitcoin fraudster who wanted to be Liberland’s queen
Liberland also has two tokens that are used in governance decisions and within its ecosystem, and it boasts a blockchain that claims to have a “proof-of-citizenship consensus.” 
According to Jackson, the VERDIS token isn’t officially affiliated with the nation, and it appears to have just been used to fundraise over $60,000 for the micronation.
He told Protos that the recent crypto integration was their way of saying thank you for the support and that the money from the VERDIS token “massively contributed towards our country’s development.” This included investing the funds towards a better UK office and opening an office in Belgrade.
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Residents rush to the store to get in on Friday’s Mega Millions drawing – Western Mass News

CHICOPEE, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – Tonight could be your lucky night, lottery players across the state have a shot at winning nearly one billion dollars in the Mega Millions drawing. The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday is now at an estimated $980 million. That’s the eighth largest jackpot in the game’s history.
The cash option on the prize is now an estimated $452.2 million. Friday night’s $980 million jackpot is the game’s largest since December 27, 2024, when a $1.269 billion jackpot was won on a ticket sold in California.
Western Mass News spoke with local residents heading in to buy their tickets for tonight. They told western mass news why they decided to enter tonight’s drawing and what they would do with the cash if they were to hit big.
“I’m just playing because it’s a chance and everybody wants a chance and if I did win, I would pay off some bills, but I would also give it back to my community. I’m a very active member of saint stans parishioners, and I think there’s a lot of homeless and people who need it in our Chicopee community,” said Julie L’Heureux.
In case you were wondering, the odds of winning Friday’s jackpot are 1 in 290.5 million. Mega Millions tickets are $5 each and tickets for Friday’s drawing can be purchased until 10:45 p.m.
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