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Texas Lottery suspends sales of Monopoly Millionaires' Club gameReply
While I don't think the lottery playing public is stupid, many players just don't want to spend a lot of time and effort on understanding and playing any given game. IMHO, that's why QP's are the choice of the vast majority of players. QP's are fast and easy. People buy whatever it is they want at the convenience store and tell the clerk Gimme a quick pick for tonite's lotto and they're out the door and on their way. This MMC game is way too complicated. People understand raffles. Wh
Dec 11, 2014, 5:19 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

Ct. Lottery still looking for $254.2M Powerball winnerNews Story
The search is still on for the $254.2 million Powerball jackpot winning ticket for the November 2, 2011 drawing the largest prize ever won in Connecticut Lottery history. Lottery officials confirm that the winning ticket was sold in Fairfield County. Further details will not be available until the winner comes forward to make the unprecedented claim. The winning numbers on November 2 were 12, 14, 34, 39, and 46, with Powerball number 36. The Power Play multiplier number was 4. The Conne
Nov 9, 2011, 9:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut man sues friend for share of lottery prizeNews Story
A Connecticut man is suing a friend for a share of a $1 million lottery jackpot. Armando Martins of Trumbull claims that he and Nuno Nascimento of Bridgeport had an agreement to buy lottery tickets every week and to share if they won. Martins says he gave his friend $75 each week to buy tickets. On April 1, Martins said he only has $74 for his share. The lawsuit says that evening one of the tickets that Nascimento bought at a local grocery store was a $1 million Powerball winne
May 15, 2009, 9:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut lottery agents protest cut in commissionsReply
I agree, Todd. One percent equals only a penny per ticket for online games; not a significant savings to the lottery or to the state, but it represents one-fifth of a retailer's income from online sales. Scratch-offs account for a greater percentage of sales in Connecticut (compared to their online games), so tickets costing $2.00 to $20.00 or more will really take a bite. The scary part is that once even one state passes such legislation, most other state lotteries will jump on the
May 8, 2009, 3:39 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

FLASH: Tennessee Lottery audit won't investigate drawing errorsReply
...A similar situation happened in Connecticut back around 1987-89. The Ctlottery was running their drawings on superstitious days or dates and got caught in a terrible fix. It was a Friday the 13th in May of that year and the number was 513 and lotto players from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and of course Connecticut played 513 and as a result...The Connecticut Lottery had to borrow $80 + Million Dollars from Chase Manhattan Bank to payoff on 513 . That wasn't the bad part. Th
Oct 3, 2007, 11:26 pm - lottoscorp - Lottery News

Technology glitch plagues Connecticut LotteryNews Story
What a Connecticut Lottery Corp. spokeswoman described as a hiccup in a ticket sales computer system may have cost the state and its lottery agents tens of thousands of dollars in lost sales Monday.The computer glitch left Connecticuts 2,800 lottery agents without operating ticket terminals for more than 10 hours during the morning and early afternoon Monday.The problem wasnt corrected until about 2:30 p.m., which meant that thousands of customers were unable to buy tickets for Mondays midday
Oct 19, 2004, 11:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery hires director of Illinois Lottery as new CEONews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s governing board voted Thursday to hire Gregory Smith, acting director of the Illinois Lottery, as its new CEO in hopes of stability after nearly two years of turmoil, recriminations and investigations at the quasi-public agency with a $1.2 billion annual budget. The lottery's top job had been vacant since Sept. 22, 2016, when last CEO, Anne Noble, stepped down amid controversy and entered an unusual and lucrative severance agreement with the agency's board of d
Jul 6, 2018, 10:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Washington man finds winning lottery ticket worth $2 million in his car windowReply
It's a very common thing for people to put a lottery ticket in their car and forget all about it. My nephew threw one in the cup holder on the console of his car. Fortunately for him he saw it the day after he bought it. Good thing he did.. it was a $17,000 winner. A guy in Connecticut put a winning one million dollar Connecticut Superdraw raffle ticket in his wallet and forgot about it. He cleaned out his wall two months after the drawing and found out he won a million dollars. G5
Dec 15, 2021, 4:00 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

NJ man claims $315.3 million Powerball lottery jackpotReply
I do not want a repeat of, The largest jackpot never claimed was a Power Ball ticket for $51.2 million in Indiana in 2002. I do not want to see another Clarence Jackson from Connecticut who tried to claim his prize two days late. He sued the Connecticut Lottery and lost. I got all of this info. from an Amazon video titled, LUCKY .
Jun 9, 2018, 5:12 pm - music* - Lottery News

Idaho woman wins $390,000 lottery prize after playing same numbers for 27 yearsReply
Congratulations! Now someone explain this lottery to me. It started in Connecticut in 2009, and wasn't available outside New England for sometime and Idaho later on according to Wikpedia. So my point is she may have played the same #'s, just not on this lottery the entire time. Personally stopped playing about a year ago in KY and Season Ticket from MA. What is great about LFL is it is not a RNG and still drawn in Connecticut.
Sep 22, 2016, 12:24 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News