A Washington couple just claimed half of the $380 million Mega Millions jackpot. But there's another winning ticket out there! Did the person fall off a bridge while walking to claim their prize? That would be just our luck.

Looking for a way to prove how little you paid attention in math? The Mega Millions jackpot is now $355 million!

Detroit area resident Mike Greer yesterday claimed a $128.6 million prize after a group of friends, called "Team Victory Club," went in together on a lottery ticket purchased at the Uptown Book Store, which specializes in porn and sex toys.

An adult book store in Detroit on Saturday sold someone a $128 million Powerball ticket, but the winner has yet to come forward. And the store, Uptown Books, has sold winning tickets before. Get there while the place is hot!

57-year-old Ernest Pullen of Bonne, Terre Mo. won $1 million on a scratch ticket back in June. This month, he won $2 million on another ticket. Pullen told the AP he considers himself a "lucky guy."

Gravity controversy! Fecal news! Fatty cake brain! Shady brainy babies! Lottery science magic! Shirts, singing! Who knows what secrets the universe holds? The Tuesday Science Watch does! Because we watch your science—clad in pop tune follicles!

Someone in Jersey has a $211 million Powerball ticket. Claim it before we resent you.

Two lucky souls hit the Mega Millions jackpot last night: one of them lived in the South Bronx, and the other one in San Gabriel, California. Looks like the West Coast winner (update: isn't) an Alt-Porn goddess named Annaliese Nielsen.

The South Bronx, the South South Bronx is where one of two winning Mega Millions tickets were sold. The other one was in San Gabriel, California. Each winner receives $166.5M, and neither will invest in a Josh Harris startup. [NYT]

Callie Rogers was once the world's luckiest teenager. You see, at the tender age of 16, Ms. Rogers won £1.9million lottery. That was, at the time, about $3 million. Now it's all gone. That's good and bad. But mostly bad.

You ever have those ridiculous daydreams about winning the lottery, and what you would do with the money the moment you got it? A lot of people I've talked to do. Which is why they'll enjoy this, possibly the funniest thing I've seen all week.

Hey, You Never Know [Flickr via Gothamist]

Don't pretend that the economy is all bad. Lottery ticket sales are booming! American states are beaming at the prospect of closing their yawning budget gaps with the final dollars of the desperate poor.

Ha, everybody watches Mad Men and assumes that advertising must be some kind of glamorous industry. Forget it! The best thing agency big shots can hope for these days: "Create affordable meals and boost the cheese-single business" for Kraft. Wow, that's a "panty-dropper" account for sure! Seriously, most ad people are now stuck touting things like money-saving strategies at JCPenney. Try impressing girls with that. The last available prestige account in these trying times: sucking the blood of the poor more effectively with jingles for the state lottery! Facebook pages. Scratch-and-sniff lottery tickets. Gas discounts. Partnering with Indiana Jones and Deal or No Deal. Lotteries are doing all these things (and more!) to attract the dwindling dollars of desperate Americans into their swollen coffers.

A Wisconsin couple bought four lottery tickets-all with the same numbers, for the same drawing-and won. AP headline: "Wisconsin couple each hit lottery - twice." Same story on WNBC.com, headline: "Has Couple Found Formula To Win Lottery?" Same story on Drudge, headline: "Couple Finds Formula To Win Lottery; Rakes In $700K This Week!" This is why America is losing.

Richie Randazzo is the Park Avenue doorman who won the lottery, bought a new car, and picked up a twentysomething Swedish girlfriend who may or may not have been a prostitute. Today the Times meets up the unlikely loser in this story: Randazzo's pal, Ray Otero, the super at 106 East 85th Street who spends $30,000 a year on lottery tickets but has yet to win a major jackpot. But there's a silver lining! At least residents of the building now know that their Christmas tip money is funding state education. [NYT]

Ira Rennert may be looking for some help around his Hamptons compound today. Degli and Maria Martinez, a husband and wife who served as live-in help at Rennert's 110,000-square-foot home, just quit their jobs after winning the largest jackpot in New York State lotto history. The winning ticket came out to $21 million as part of a lump sum payment, which is roughly what Rennert spends a year on gas for his fleet of jets and Hummers. [Page Six]

Richie Randazzo won the lottery, landed a model girlfriend, took a trip to Atlantic City, and then learned that his new girlfriend might be connected to a prostitution ring. It's been a busy few weeks for the now-former doorman at 1021 Park, who admitted today that the building dismissed him. Fortunately, buses to the Taj leave on the hour. [NYP]

A slow news week for the New York Post has turned into a very busy one for Mr. Richie Randazzo, the doorman at 1021 Park Avenue who won a $5 million jackpot back in June thanks to a lucky scratch-off ticket. On Tuesday, we learned that since landing his big pay day, Richie has been skipping work to hang out with a new prize, a youthful Swedish model by the name of Sabina Mari Johansson. Then yesterday the Post treated us to an extensive photo gallery of how Randazzo and Johansson pass the time these days. (In hot tubs in Atlantic City, apparently.)

Remember Richie Randazzo, the Park Avenue doorman who collected $5 million thanks to a scratch-off lottery ticket? Richie's about to get fired from his job at 1021 Park: It seems he's been skipping out of work to play Blackjack in Atlantic City and for refusing to wear his uniform when he does show up. On the bright side, he's now dating a Swedish model and plans to collect unemployment if and when he gets the ax. [NYP]