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Iowa Lottery CEO worries about jackpot fatigueNews Story
Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich says due to recent jackpot runs for Powerball and Mega Millions, Iowa Lottery sales and profits are running about a month ahead of projections. We're still, per capita, are in the middle in the number of dollars spent per person, Rich says. You go to the east coast, it's probably three or four times per person what they spend on lottery and gaming than what we do in Iowa. A recent $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won by a player in South Carolina. A woma
Nov 26, 2018, 7:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Nebraska man wins Iowa Lottery's $500,000 second-chance jackpotNews Story
A railroad worker from Lincoln, Nebraska collected a $500,000 check Friday from the second chance drawing of the Iowa/Kansas Midwest Millions scratch ticket lottery game. Fifty-year-old Ralph Kuwamoto says he bought the tickets at a store called Eddy's in Glenwood, Iowa and then mailed them in for the second-chance drawing. Kuwamoto says he didn't think anything about it until a friend called. He says he was coming home from St. Joseph, Missouri when he got a call from a buddy in Arizona
Jan 19, 2008, 11:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsNews Story
Major changes in the game in August should lure players who want bigger jackpots.Powerball players got lucky during the past 12 months, winning lots of smaller multistate jackpots but dampening overall enthusiasm by reducing the number of huge payoffs in the $200 million to $300 million range. The players are just beating the game, Iowa Lottery President Edward Stanek said Monday. We had 11 Powerball jackpot winners the year before, and we have had more than a 50 percent increase for the fisca
Jul 26, 2005, 6:42 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Indiana/Iowa: 8/1 - 8/31/2017
Welcome to the August Thread for Indiana and Iowa! As you all know that Iowa now receives the same P3, and P4 results as Indiana. needinghelp and Z0000limits both agreed to combine the thread. The more the merrier and with more $$$$$ and more predicted winning numbers! Everyone from Iowa and Indiana please feel free to post your predictions! Everyone feel welcome! Good Luck!
Jul 31, 2017, 10:23 pm - z0000limits - Pick 3 Forum

Lottery Post members that live in Iowa
The Iowa thread only had 11 or 12 pages of posters. I know that more people play the lottery in Iowa. To make this thread successful, it takes every ones participation and input (even if your numbers don't hit) you stir up thoughts for others who may take your numbers and mirror them or +1/-1 or reduce them or track them. Your number might not come in today or tomorrow, but it could possibly hit within the week. By posting numbers or even comments on someone else numbers hitting, you generate co
Dec 2, 2014, 7:15 pm - dannyboyhouston - Pick 3 Forum

Powerball lottery creator patents new gamesNews Story
The co-creator of the Powerball lottery game has patented an international jackpot game and a new lotto game that could some day be played in the United States.Edward Stanek is president of the Iowa Lottery and one of two men who came up with the Powerball game, which is now played in 27 states.The Powerball game has generated about $17 billion in sales for lotteries nationwide over the past 14 years, but Edward Stanek has never cashed a dime in royalty checks.Stanek chuckles when anybody asks h
Jul 6, 2005, 7:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery Unveils Chocolate-Scented TicketsNews Story
Iowa's lottery customers may get a chocolate craving when they buy their tickets next week.The Iowa Lottery will begin selling chocolate-scented Sweet Rewards instant scratch-off cards Monday.The Sweet Rewards tickets are $1 scratch-off game cards with a Valentine's Day theme, according to the agency's news release. Winnings range from $1 to $200.When a player scratches off the game card, a chocolate smell is emitted, the news release said. The tickets may be good enough to eat, but remember t
Jan 21, 2005, 5:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery unveils first electronic scratch gameNews Story
Lottery players in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Waterloo and Cedar Falls have the first chance at playing the first electronic scratch game beginning today.The Iowa Lottery will begin distributing battery powered cards loaded with 80 plays. Each card will cost $20 -- that amounts to 25 cents per play, thus the name Quarter Play, lottery officials said.The cards, about the size of a driver's license, guarantee a payout of at least $5. Among the 20,000 cards to be sold in the initial marketing test, 3
Oct 4, 2004, 3:35 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Stores OK with releasing Iowa Lottery TouchPlay dataNews Story
Iowa convenience store operators, whose sales information has been made public for years by the Iowa Lottery, say they won't try to block the release of financial information requested by The Des Moines Register about TouchPlay machines. We don't have a dog in the fight. We don't care, the president of the trade group that represents convenience stores said Thursday. It's always been public. All lottery sales are public information by location. Dawn Carlson of the Petroleum Marketers a
Feb 24, 2006, 7:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery prepared to take sports bets if lawmakers approveNews Story
On Wednesday the Iowa legislature began what will likely be a long conversation over legalizing sports gambling in Iowa. A legislative subcommittee considered four separate bills on Wednesday that would legalize betting on professional and collegiate sports. A 2018 US Supreme Court ruling lifted the federal moratorium on the activity. Delaware was the first state to take advantage of the ruling and begin taking bets on sports. Their system allows sports gambling at casinos as well as at lo
Feb 7, 2019, 12:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News