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Powerball - Sales Cutoff
Connecticut's cutoff for Powerball sales on the night of the draw is 9:45 ET. That's 1 hr and 15 minutes before the drawing! I know all states are not like this. Please feel free to post your state's cutoff time if you are aware of it. It would be interesting to see when sales stop.
May 7, 2005, 10:37 pm - JAG331 - Jackpot Games Forum

Hoosier Lottery: Den of Thieves...
For Immediate Release: 7/22/2004<STYLE> July 22, 2004STATE HITS JACKPOT WITH RECORD LOTTERY SALES YEARIndianapolis Indiana citizens hit the jackpot as the Hoosier Lottery shattered sales records in fiscal year 2004 (FY04) with $734 million in total sales (up 10% from FY03) and $422 million in scratch-off ticket sales (up 9.3% from FY03). These record revenues, combined with a significant reduction in expenses, fueled a remarkable 13.5% ($24 million) increase in profits, totaling nearly
Jul 30, 2004, 1:56 pm - jim695 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Vent your displeasure - CANADIAN 649Reply
The new Canadian Lotto 649 sales are doing well and maybe too well. It apears like Lotto 649 is taking sales away from the Canadian Super 7 lottery. The sales for the Super 7 draw on June 18 were only 6.2 million tickets. This was the lowest sales since the Nov 28, 2003 Super 7 draw. Albeit, the Super 7 jackpot was only $2.5 million and the Lotto 649 jackpot is now always $4 million or higher.Good luck,Jake
Jun 19, 2004, 1:41 pm - Jake649 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Fun
I thought this news article was funny and we think we have problems. BobPLottery fraud victim win top prize...finally(China Daily)Updated: 2004-06-04 22:47Local farmer Liu Liang finally got what he deserved on Friday -- a BMW325i car, 120,000 yuan and a sincere apology from the Shaanxi Provincial Sports Lottery Administrative Centre -- for being the victim of Shaanxi Province's sports lottery fraud.Liu, 17, had to wait 70 days for his prize, after being wrongly accused of presenting a fake ticke
Jun 4, 2004, 2:04 pm - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions boosts Texas lottery salesNews Story
Lottery ticket sales have increased an average of 30 percent since Texas joined the multistate lottery Mega Millions two weeks ago, state officials said Thursday.But the increase accompanied an advertising push to promote the new game. Lottery officials cautioned that more time is needed to determine the long-term impact of Mega Millions on existing games.The two-week revenue on overall lottery ticket sales increased from an average of $56 million before Mega Millions to $65 million during the p
Dec 19, 2003, 3:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lotto Sales Keeping PaceNews Story
As Texas players are buying their first tickets for Mega Millions, they're also sticking by Lotto Texas, the first big jackpot game in the Lone Star State. Sales are going great for the first drawing of Mega Millions with its $44 million jackpot on Friday, said Reagan E. Greer, Executive Director of the Texas Lottery Commission. And sales for Lotto are good too as people see that $15 million jackpot for tonight's drawing. We're glad to see that Texas is big enough for both games. As of 4:30 We
Dec 4, 2003, 6:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.D. Lottery Sales Applications OpenNews Story
North Dakota's lottery office is taking applications from businesses that want to sell tickets.Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says today the lottery is expecting to license about 300 businesses. The demand for a lottery license will probably be much greater.Merchants who sell lottery tickets will get a five percent commission.Getting a sales license takes money. It costs 50 dollars to turn in the application, 30 dollars for a records check and 20 dollars for most credit checks.The fees are not
Oct 6, 2003, 5:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

will they be bumping up lottery from extra sales ?
Every state that is involved in the mega millions is claiming above forcasted sales for the entire last year and this year so far yet the lottery jackpots rarely seem to get boosted due to extra sales... Just curios if jackpots have been increasing faster or slower than before ohio and the other states had join mega millions. anyone have any ideas?
Aug 4, 2002, 9:53 pm - durango99 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Seeing sales slowing, Missouri Lottery officials seek new customersNews Story
For many years, as state revenue has fluctuated and stagnated, the Missouri Lottery has been a welcome outlier, a dependable, sometimes surging revenue stream that rarely failed to post record profits. From 2001-2008, the lottery doubled its sales, to just shy of $1 billion, and its contribution to state education funding (where its profit is directed) reached $265 million. Since then though, the pace has slowed. While sales have continued to tick upward, gone are the years of double-digit
Jul 22, 2014, 7:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery approves adding Mega MillionsNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation's board of directors has approved a cross-selling agreement allowing sales of the Mega Millions multi-state jackpot game in the Commonwealth. Tentatively set to go on sale in Kentucky at the end of January 2010, lottery players will have both Mega Millions and Powerball available as multi-state multi-million dollar games. Drawings for Mega Millions are held Tuesday and Friday nights, while Powerball drawings will continue to be held Wednesday and Saturday n
Dec 7, 2009, 9:57 pm - Todd - Lottery News