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Sting nabs Minnesota lottery clerks stealing winning ticketsNews Story
Investigations will expand after lottery ticket agents attempt to redeem undercover agents' winning tickets Five Twin Cities convenience store employees and three accomplices are facing lottery fraud charges after they were caught by undercover investigators allegedly trying to cash in winning lottery tickets for themselves. The fraud was discovered after the Minnesota State Lottery's security office and the state's Alcohol Gambling Enforcement Division set up a sting operation to test whe
Mar 30, 2009, 10:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

24 year-old Calif. man claims lottery richesNews Story
New Jersey native recently moved to San Diego Updated: Jan. 8, 2008 at 7:47 p.m. The $47 million winner of the Mega Millions lottery game was all smiles Wednesday afternoon when he claimed his winnings and was introduced at a news conference as Todd Moitz, California Lottery officials said. Moitz, a 24-year-old former Farmer's Insurance agent, said he's overwhelmed by the news and hasn't yet decided what to do with the windfall. He has elected the cash option, which is worth $32 mill
Jan 8, 2009, 6:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$58.6M Powerball lottery ticket sold in PennsylvaniaReply
My first thought would be population, My second thought would be sales. 31 Power States Pop Estimated 5+1 5+0 name Rank Population Hits Hits Pennsylvania 6 12,281,054 3 73 N. Carolina 11 8,049,313 - 47 Missouri 17 5,595,211 - 33 Louisana 22 4,468,976 2 29 Indiana 14 6,080,485 - 28 Kentucky 25 4,041,769 - 26 S. Carolina 26 4,012,012 1 25 Oklahoma 27 3,450,654 1 23 Arizona 20 5,130,632 - 21 Connecticut 29 3,405,565 - 19 M
Nov 1, 2008, 1:27 pm - fja - Lottery News

Lottery ticket has all the numbers, but 7 seconds lateNews Story
Joel Ifergan came within seven seconds of becoming a multi-millionaire, and he's ready to go to court to claim his windfall. Mr. Ifergan bought a lottery ticket one night at 8:59 p.m., but Loto-Qu bec's computers processed and printed it only after the draw's deadline at 9 p.m. It turned out to be a winning ticket but it popped out of the machine too late. Now, Mr. Ifergan is suing Quebec's behemoth lottery corporation for $13.5 million, saying that the machine's time lag cost him his shar
Oct 8, 2008, 6:54 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois Little Lotto Jackpots 2008Reply
Hey there Texas MadMan Well, personally I feel that the info. is useful if this is the game someone is going to play. I'm also using it as a model because there is a drawing everyday (and evidently a winner every 2.7 days). For all the discussions we heave her about quick picks vs people picking their own numbers, I'd like to see a bunch of people all pick a game and track it, so we'd have this kind of input from at least a dozen games. But I'm prety sure the results would be very simil
Jun 22, 2008, 1:01 am - Coin Toss - Pick 5 Forum

Some lottery millionaires can't wait to return to workNews Story
Many of us, if we won big in the lottery, would have one item at or near the top of our to-do list: never work again. But when Camelot, operator of the UK National Lottery, polled 100 of its lottery millionaires, the results threw up a few surprises. Of those working before their win, a third chose to go on working, with half of them remaining full-time. (And of the two-thirds who have ceased the daily grind, half admitted to missing work.) With a million-plus jingling in your back pocket, wh
Mar 25, 2008, 10:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Gulfstream Park Spot Plays 2/16/08Reply
Holly Go Lightly finished 4th, 1-5 exacta paid $23.40 for every $2 bet. 2nd Race Next Post 2:13 Off: 1:45 | 6 Furlongs | 3 Year Olds | Starter Allowance ($50,000 - ) | Purse: $35,000 # Horse Jockey Weight Win Place Show 1A Betty Is Ready Bravo J 117 9.00 3.00 2.20 5 Grand Obsession Castro E 117 ----- 2.20 2.10 3 Hello Poochi Pooh Nelson L 117 ----- ----- 5.40 Times in 5ths: :221 :453 :58 1:104 Times in 100ths: :22.30 :45.65 :58.00 1:10.91
Feb 16, 2008, 11:21 pm - Big Hitter - Gaming Forum

Study ranks Missouri lottery as ninth best in U.S.News Story
Lottery Post tapped for examples of computerized drawing problems in other states Many rush to buy tickets when the lottery pool reaches the millions, but do you ever wonder how transparent Missouri's lottery system is? Turns out, Missouri ranks in the top ten for disclosure and fairness, compared to the other 43 states that offer lotteries. In a study by San Antonio professor Gerald Busald released Dec. 14, Missouri ranked ninth overall. California and Pennsylvania scored first and second
Jan 4, 2008, 4:02 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Official wants fraud probe of Tennessee LotteryNews Story
UPDATED (Aug. 28, 2007, 11:44 am) Internal documents added The Tennessee Lottery should investigate whether fraud was behind a computer malfunction that affected the results for Cash 3 and Cash 4 games, the lottery board's audit chairman says. James H. Ripley, a Sevierville attorney who heads the 3-year-old lottery's audit group, said the agency should probe more deeply into why a computer software problem prevented duplicate numbers from being drawn for a three-week period. A lotter
Aug 28, 2007, 9:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

Systems say don't play like this....Reply
Little Lotto used to be a 5 / 30 game and switched to 5 / 39. Before the matrix expanded, the top prize was detrmined by the amount of play and the lower tier (4 of 5) was determined by the number of winners - but there were only two lower tiers, 4 of 5 and 3 of 5 (I think 3 of 5 was always $5) When it expanded the lower prizes became constants, $100 for 4 of 5, $10 for 3 of 5, and $1 for 2 of 5. So I guess everyone who was kvethching about not getting paid anything for hitting two
Aug 19, 2007, 12:23 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Systems Forum