Dear Mark: I enjoyed your May 1, 2015 column on “low roller” time-killing bets . It brought back memories.

The Ogemaw County couple was on the verge of throwing the Mega Money Multiplier ticket away, when a friend checked it and discovered the couple won $2 million. “I didn’t know the ticket was a winner, and our friend wanted to look it over,” said the husband, who wished to remain anonymous.

When Jacqueline Duvall scratched her Money Money Money ticket from the Virginia Lottery, she saw a money bag icon, so she knew she’d won something. The Madison Heights woman thought maybe she’d won her money back and not much more, so she finished eating her lunch before scratching the rest of the ticket.

Andrew Messick, left, chief executive officer of World Triathlon Corp., speaks at the Bloomberg Sports Business Summit in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013.

Daniel Blackley Jr., Scott Goldberg, Robert Kerr, and Thomas Reagan, all of Dumont, collectively went in and purchased tickets for the March 25 Powerball drawing where they matched all five numbers and extra Powerball number. The Rocklin Four as they’ve been called have no plans to leave the neighborhood or change their lives much.

The Minnesota Lottery’s experiment with paperless, instant-play tickets sold over the Internet and other platforms will come to an end because Gov. Mark Dayton decided Thursday not to veto legislation suspending the games. The Legislature had sent Dayton the bill to stop the virtual games after overwhelming votes in the Senate last week and the House on Thursday.

It was double the fun for several area lottery players in April because they found ways to win more than once in the 30-day period. Carl Weaver, of Danville, and Michael Novakoski and Raymond Bartosic, both of Mount Carmel, had the right combination to win two prizes of $2,500 each in the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Pick 4 game.

Democrats propose lotteries to fund education programs every year. Some Republicans might warm up to the idea this year.

The STARS lottery launched Thursday at the $1.5 million grand prize home. The other grand prize is a home in Saskatoon, valued at the same amount.

You won millions of dollars AND found true love. Everything is perfect and then…you find out it’s all a scam.

A MUSIC therapy project that helps people cope with mental illnesses in Bradford on Avon has been awarded nearly half a million pounds by the Big Lottery Fund to go towards its new outreach programme. The Soundwell Music Therapy Trust, based at Wiltshire Music Centre, was just one of 12 organisations in the region to be awarded grants which totalled nearly A 4m.

“I just want to check it out to see if I have any good luck,” said Tamel Page, who plays the lottery daily. Page said he has won $7,500 at one point, but said he is extra cautious when it comes to checking his numbers.

BERLIN >> Vermont Lottery officials announced today a $3,450,000 winning Tri-State Megabucks jackpot ticket was sold in Vermont. The winning ticket is held by a Megabucks subscription holder and is the first Megabucks jackpot win in the state this year.

After paying my taxes, covering rent, and signing my kid’s daycare cheque I’m feeling financially unlucky. Sure, remitting to the Canada Revenue Agency is the law, but to make this year’s tax-free savings account contribution I had to go for broke.

Ironman’s fee-based lottery system for the chance to enter Ironman World Championship was illegal, the Department of Justice said Wednesday, and the organization will for forfeit the $2.7 million the lottery raised.

Hutchinson police say a woman was booked into jail after she tried to cash in a lottery ticket that she had stolen. Police allege the 31-year-old woman stole several lottery tickets from a convenience store on Sunday in Hutchinson by asking the clerk to retrieve another item and then running out the door with the tickets.

Classic Lotto ‘s jackpot increases to $4.3 million after no tickets matched the winning numbers from Wednesday’s drawing. The numbers are 7-9-13-26-39-43 Kicker 824771.

Allison Rabalais is one happy lady: She just won $1 million in the Florida Lottery by playing the $10,000,000 Florida Cash scratch-off game. She claimed her prize at the Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee, but she bought the winning ticket from Tom Thumb, 6871 Navarre Parkway in Navarre, Fla.

What if I told you there was a $70 billion tax that the poor pay the most. You’d probably say that isn’t very fair.

There is a mountain of evidence that investors can’t do better than the market. Yet there are plenty of people who are willing to sacrifice part of their retirement savings by betting that they can pick managers who will outperform the market on their behalf.