05/08/2012 – Jeopardy!, A Deal, and a Winning Lottery Ticket

Alex Trebek might retire?

After a twenty-eight-year run of hosting classic quiz show Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek says his future may hold retirement before the thirty-year anniversary.

“I have been thinking about retiring,” said Trebek in an interview. “I’m torn because I enjoy doing the show so much.”

He admitted his friends have told him to put in another two years to bring his affiliation with the show to a nice thirty-year sequence. He also admitted he is not as sharp as he once was, saying “A good 30-year-old would clean my clock.”

What will Jeopardy! have in store for the near future? Only time will tell.

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A $99 Xbox?

Microsoft’s current video gaming system, the Xbox 360 with Kinect, runs for about $300. Adding on an Xbox Live 2-Year Gold membership, for an online gaming experience with friends, raises the price to $420 (the membership is $60 a year).

But if you’re looking for a deal, the company has come up with something that seems truly phenomenal: An Xbox 360 with Kinect… for $99. Sound too good to be true? It is.

Buyers must also include a 2-Year Gold Membership for $15 a month, which comes with early-cancellation fees. You’ll end up paying $459 overall.

Upfront, the deal sounds great, but you end up paying more in the long run. Plus, the deal is only available at the sixteen Microsoft stores that exist around the country.

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Lottery ticket in dispute

After finding a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket in the trash, Arkansas woman Sharon Jones collected the $680,000 in prize money. One month later, she was sued by both the convenience store clerk who sold the ticket, and a woman named Sharon Duncan, claiming to be the original buyer of the ticket joined in.

Jones and her husband have already spent $190,000, buying a new car among other things.

But the judge ruled in favor of Duncan. Being that neither Jones adults are employed, repaying this could be a problem.

Duncan had scanned the ticket at the convenience store, but the machine told her it was not a winning ticket, so she discarded it. When Jones found it, she saw there were numbers that had not been scratched off. Four different scanners told her she was holding the million-dollar prize.

Jones has decided to appeal the decision.

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