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MN Lottery Results: Mega Millions, Pick 3 winning numbers for June 27, 2025
The Minnesota Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here's a look at June 27, 2025, results for each game: 18-21-29-42-50, Mega Ball: 02 Check Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here. 9-2-6 Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here. 01-03-14-17-24 Check North 5 payouts and previous drawings here. 14-25-27-35-43 Check Gopher 5 payouts and previous drawings here. Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Mega Millions: 10:00 p.m. CT Tuesday and Friday. Lotto America: 9:20 p.m. CT Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Pick 3: 6:17 CT p.m. daily. North 5: 6:17 CT p.m. daily. Gopher 5: 6:17 p.m. CT Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Winning lottery numbers are sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets. You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer. Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). 18+ (19+ in NE, 21+ in AZ). Physically present where Jackpocket operates. Jackpocket is not affiliated with any State Lottery. Eligibility Restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Terms: This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a St. Cloud Times editor. You can send feedback using this form. This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times: MN Lottery Results: Mega Millions, Pick 3 winning numbers for June 27, 2025
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Maine Lottery results: See winning numbers for Mega Millions, Pick 3 on June 27, 2025
The Maine Lottery offers several games for those aiming to win big. You can pick from national lottery games, like the Powerball and Mega Millions, or a variety of local and regional games, like the Pick 3, Pick 4 and Gimme 5. While your odds of winning a big jackpot in the Powerball or Mega Millions are generally pretty slim (here's how they compare to being struck by lightning or dealt a royal flush), other games offer better odds to win cash, albeit with lower prize amounts. Here's a look at Friday, June 27, 2025 results for each game: 18-21-29-42-50, Mega Ball: 02 Check Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here. Day: 6-9-2 Evening: 6-4-1 Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here. Day: 7-1-4-0 Evening: 4-4-2-6 Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here. 05-12-33-43-47, Lucky Ball: 17 Check Lucky For Life payouts and previous drawings here. 02-06-11-15-35 Check Gimme 5 payouts and previous drawings here. Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results Powerball: 10:59 p.m. ET Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Mega Millions: 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday and Friday. Pick 3, 4: 1:10 p.m. (Day) and 6:50 p.m. (Evening) ET daily. Lucky For Life: 10:38 p.m. ET daily. Lotto America: 10:15 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Gimme 5: 6:59 p.m. ET on Monday through Friday. Cash Pop: 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. & 11:30 p.m. ET daily. Winning lottery numbers are sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets. You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer. Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). 18+ (19+ in NE, 21+ in AZ). Physically present where Jackpocket operates. Jackpocket is not affiliated with any State Lottery. Eligibility Restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Terms: This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a USA Today editor. You can send feedback using this form. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Maine Lottery results, winning numbers: Mega Millions, Pick 3, more
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The Irish syndicate that beat the Lotto: ‘It wasn't complicated to organise'
'I was sitting beside a guy at the wedding of a friend, and I was asking about what he did,' Ross Whitaker tells me. 'I'm always thinking, Is there a documentary here? Ha ha!' It transpired that the other guest worked in 'big data'. He didn't think there was much for Whitaker there. 'No, it's not very interesting, Ross,' the chap deflected. 'But do you remember the story of the time the syndicate tried to buy all the numbers in the lottery? You should do a documentary about that.' Whitaker, director of such fine films as Katie and Between Land and Sea , describes a 'media light bulb going off'. Like most of us who remember 1992, he had a vague grasp of the facts. But reports at the time were sketchy. Did they get away with it? READ MORE All is now answered in Whitaker's Beat the Lotto. It is a fascinating yarn – packed full of oddballs and geniuses – that works up to the most gripping denouement of the season. At its heart is a charming, articulate Cork man named Stefan Klincewicz. It was he who devised the plan to buy up every number for a bank-holiday draw that would, despite the enormous outlay, still (almost) guarantee significant profit. Without Klincewicz, Whitaker would not have a film. Yet one could easily understand if he didn't want to revisit the controversy. 'Controversy? I never really thought about it. Because, for me at the time, it was no big deal,' Klincewicz says. 'About a year before the project went ahead I approached the National Lottery . I won't give you the name of the person, but he said to me, 'I'll get back to you on it.' And he did. Within 10 minutes.' All very civilised. All very upfront. 'I offered to bring in the full payment for buying all the combinations, give them the money and they just give us one ticket. But the response was, very simply, 'No, we cannot accept that proposal. But if you mark all the cards, that'll be okay.' So I said to myself, 'Right. That's just what I am going to do.'' My assumption is that the organisers were banking on nobody managing the logistical complications of getting nearly two million Lotto cards through machines up and down the State. It was simple enough to calculate when, on a big rollover weekend, the mathematics would deliver a profit to someone who bought all the combinations (unless there was an unprecedented number of winners). But surely nobody could manage to pull off such an enormous operation. 'It wasn't complicated to organise,' Klincewicz says with a chuckle. 'For me it was a case of turning over the page. 'Right, what's next?' Get it done. I never really thought about that. It is just something I set out to do. And I did it.' Rarely has such a remarkable man seemed so convinced of his unremarkable nature. There are the makings of a book in his family story. His mother, a nurse from northwest Cork specialising in psychiatry, was attached to Gen Montgomery's 21st Army Corps in the months after the second World War. She found herself liaising with Klincewicz's dad, a Polish paediatrician, and, after getting together romantically, they pondered where in world such a couple would find home. Most of the elder Klincewicz's family made their way to the United States. 'Mum said to Dad, 'Look, come to Ireland. We'll go there. Try it for a year. And if you don't like it we'll go to Chicago.' So, obviously, the rest is history. Dad loved Ireland, loved the people, and that's how they came to be in Cork.' Might we find clues to his interest in the mathematics of gambling from a legend about his grandparents, exiled to Siberia by the Bolsheviks? 'I could never get missing pieces of the jigsaw, but apparently they escaped as a result of the outcome of a game of chance,' he says. 'I'm not sure if it was poker. I don't know what card game it was, but they escaped with assistance based on the outcome of this card game.' Klincewicz, who was in the rare-stamp business at the time of the Lotto project, makes no claims for academic standing. 'I have no PhDs, nothing whatsoever like that,' he says. 'I would prefer to say I had no qualifications. Any papers that I do have are only diplomas or things like that – which are not major, not relevant.' The lottery had already delivered Klincewicz a degree of fame. The documentary shows him promoting his bestselling book, Win the Lotto, on RTÉ television. One cannot overstate the impact of the National Lottery in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was a time of great hardship, and the lure of instant wealth proved an irresistible intoxicant. Then there were the community projects that the profits financed. 'It was seen as a really positive thing in a time that was, I suppose, quite dark,' Whitaker says. 'We don't want to go on and on about that, but that's very much how people felt at the time. All you ever heard at school was the unemployment numbers going up.' This explains the divided feelings about the syndicate at the time. A television audience shown in the film seems to be wishing for them to fail. Here were these cynics playing poker with the people's dream machine. Yet, 33 years later, it is hard to watch Beat the Lotto without rooting for Klincewicz and his band of investors. They were breaking no laws. The flaw was in the system. And the plan involved a lot of hard work. 'I have heard of people coming out of screenings of the film arguing over which side they would be on,' Whitaker says. 'And, in fact, some of the programmers in different cinemas have been relaying that back to us.' Yet Beat the Lotto is structured like a heist movie, and everyone wants the plotters to succeed in such an entertainment. Right? All the more so if it's strictly legal. Don't the Irish pride themselves on enjoying the establishment being taken down a peg? 'You do lean a little bit into the tropes of the genre you're in,' Whitaker says. 'And, when it comes down to it, it wasn't illegal to do what they did. It was an incredible undertaking. They spent over a year filling out those tickets by hand, which just feels like an insane thing for someone to do.' So where did Klincewicz find the other members of the syndicate? For all the simplicity of the idea, you still need to gather a large number of people who are prepared to risk some unexpected glitch frustrating the mathematics. 'It would have been due to the formation of smaller syndicates prior to doing this and building up contacts through those circles,' he says, slightly cryptically. 'So many diverse aspects of life. One of the people – and I don't want to make the name public – was a major car dealer, a big name, the managing director of that company. I got to know him because I got my first car in Dublin from him. And stayed with them. So he was part of the syndicate.' He reveals that the biggest single investment would have been £220,000. 'When the news got out, one person whom I knew very well arrived into my offices on the Thursday morning and said, 'I want to invest in this.' There was very little left at the time. I think there was probably around £10,000 needed to complete it – which would have been filled anyway. He handed £50 over for his share. Ha ha!' The task of buying the tickets was shared out among members in impressively logical fashion. 'It wasn't pro rata,' he says. 'It was a case of [allocating] somebody who had the knowledge how to get, for example, £100,000 worth of tickets on. They had the ability to do it. They had the contacts to do it. They had the assistance to do it.' It would be as well going into Beat the Lotto without knowing how the plan worked out. We certainly shan't spoil that here, but inevitably a host of complications mount as we veer towards the fateful draw. Klincewicz seems genuinely puzzled when I ask if he would like to have done anything differently. 'Well, not really. No, no.' No regrets? He still feels the plan itself was sound? 'It was, yeah, yeah, yeah … apart from the complications.' Life is ever thus. Beat the Lotto is in cinemas from Friday, July 4th
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Did anyone win Mega Millions drawing last night? Winning numbers in June 27, 2025 lottery results
The Mega Millions jackpot continues to grow after no one matched all six numbers to win Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot. Here are the numbers for the Friday, June 27, lottery drawing jackpot worth $348 million with a cash option of $155.5 million. Grab your tickets and see if you're the game's newest millionaire. Mega Millions, Powerball: What to do if you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot Friday night's drawing will take place at 10 p.m. CT. Tuesday night's winning numbers were 10, 11, 18, 24, 60, and the Mega Ball was 20. Results are pending. Powerball numbers: Anyone win Wednesday night's drawing? You only need to match one number in Mega Millions to win a prize. However, that number must be the Mega Ball, worth either $10, $15, $20, $25 or $50. Matching two numbers won't win anything in Mega Millions unless one of the numbers is the Mega Ball. A ticket matching one of the five numbers and the Mega Ball is worth either $14, $21, $28, $35 or $70. Visit for a complete list of payout information. Mega Millions numbers you need to know: Most commonly drawn numbers The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday's drawing grew to an estimated $348 million with a cash option of $155.5 million, according to Drawings are held two times per week at approximately 10 p.m. CT every Tuesday and Friday. You can watch drawings via YouTube. A Mega Millions ticket costs $5 per play. The Multiplier is included in the price of a single $5 wager, according to Here's how to play Mega Millions: Mega Millions, Powerball numbers: Want to win the lottery? Here are luckiest numbers, places to play The winning numbers for Wednesday night's drawing were 2, 12, 37, 51, 61, and the Powerball is 22. The Power Play was 3X. The current Powerball jackpot continues to grow to an estimated $155 million with a cash option of $71.0 million, after no one matched all six numbers from Wednesday night's drawing. Here is the list of 2025 Mega Millions jackpot wins, according to $112 million — Jan. 17; Arizona. $344 million — March 25; Illinois. $112 million — April 18; Ohio. Mega Millions numbers: Anyone win Tuesday night's drawing? Here are the all-time top 10 Mega Millions jackpots, according to $1.58 billion — Aug. 8, 2023; Florida. $1.537 billion — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina. $1.35 billion — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine. $1.337 billion — July 29, 2022; Illinois. 1.22 billion — Dec. 27, 2024; California. $1.13 billion — March 26, 2024; New Jersey. $1.05 billion — Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan. $800 million — Sept. 10, 2024; Texas. $656 million — Mar. 30, 2012; Kansas, Illinois, Maryland. $648 million — Dec. 17, 2013; California, Georgia. Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to $2.04 billion, Powerball — Nov. 7, 2022; California. $1.765 billion, Powerball — Oct. 11, 2023; California. $1.586 billion, Powerball — Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee. $1.58 billion, Mega Millions — Aug. 8, 2023; Florida. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions — Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions — Jan. 13, 2023; Maine. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions — July 29, 2022; Illinois. $1.33 billion, Powerball — April 6, 2024; Oregon. $1.22 billion, Mega Millions — California. $1.13 billion, Mega Millions — March 26, 2024; New Jersey. Chris Sims is a digital content producer for Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Winning Mega Millions numbers tonight 6/27/25: Drawing jackpot results
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Mega Millions winning numbers for June 27: Jackpot rises to $348 million
The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $348 million for the drawing on Friday, June 27 after no one matched all the winning numbers in the drawing on Tuesday, June 24. If someone matches all six numbers on Friday, they will have the option of a one-time cash payment of $155.5 million. There have been three Mega Millions winners this year, with the most recent being the April 18 win in Ohio of a $112 million jackpot. Before then, a lucky lottery ticket holder in Illinois took home a $344 million jackpot on March 25, while another lucky person hit the Mega Millions jackpot on Jan. 17 for $113 million. Here are the winning numbers from the Mega Millions drawing on Friday, June 27, 2025. The winning numbers for Friday, June 27 will be posted here once drawn. Winning lottery numbers are sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Any Mega Millions winners will be posted here once announced by lottery officials. To view the list of past winners, visit the Mega Millions website. To play the Mega Millions, you have to buy a ticket. You can do this at a variety of locations, including your local convenience store, gas station or even grocery store. In some states, Mega Millions tickets can be bought online. Once you have your ticket, you need to pick six numbers. Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70. The gold Mega Ball ranges from 1 to 24. If you're feeling especially unlucky or don't want to go through the hassle of picking, you can ask for a "Quick Pick" or an "Easy Pick.' These options let the computer randomly generate numbers for you. Mega Millions tickets now include a built-in multiplier, which increases non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five, or 10 times. Before, players had to pay an extra dollar to add the "Megaplier.' Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets. You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer. Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services. Must be 18+, 21+ in AZ and 19+ in NE. Not affiliated with any State Lottery. Gambling Problem? Call 1-877-8-HOPE-NY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY); 1-800-327-5050 (MA); 1-877-MYLIMIT (OR); 1-800-981-0023 (PR); 1-800-GAMBLER (all others). Visit for full terms. Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at and follow him on X @fern_cerv_. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mega Millions winning numbers for 6/27/25: Jackpot at $348 million
