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Nebraska Probing Lottery Official's TripNews Story
An investigation into the director of the Nebraska Lottery focuses on a trip he and his wife took to Greece that was paid for by a lottery vendor, the attorney general said Thursday.The trip was legitimate business for lottery chief James Quinn, but state law bars public officials from accepting gifts of travel or lodging for their spouse while on state business, Attorney General Jon Bruning said. Quinn recently reimbursed the vendor for his wife's expenses, officials said.The $5,000 trip was pa
Feb 6, 2004, 6:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Comptroller: Texas missing potential $1B from gamingNews Story
More than $1 billion a year is being sucked out of Texas because of the popularity of electronic gaming in other states, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn told a Texas House committee Thursday. Over a billion dollars a year [is] being sucked out of Texas classrooms to other states, Strayhorn says. We must repatriate these dollars for the school children of Texas. Last April, Strayhorn recommended to the 78th Legislature that the state allow video lottery at racetracks where Texans already
Dec 19, 2003, 3:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Laval Resident Claims Loto-Québec's Largest Jackpot EverNews Story
The sole winner of the $25,418,690 jackpot in the October 3rd Super 7 draw, Qu bec's newest multimillionaire, Mr. Robert Fournier, has also earned the enviable distinction of being the province's largest lottery winner ever.While Mr. Fournier regularly purchases one or two tickets per draw, the bonus prizes offered by Super 7 over the past few weeks, and particularly the $25 million jackpot, motivated him to increase his wagers for the last draw. It turned out to be a move that paid off to say
Oct 9, 2003, 4:05 am - Todd - Lottery News

CT Lottery moving operations after employee tests positive for COVID-19News Story
A Connecticut Lottery Corp. employee who had been self-isolating at home has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting lottery officials to announce they are temporarily moving operations from the lottery's Rocky Hill headquarters to a backup facility they declined to identify. The move is effective Thursday. Out of an abundance of caution, the Rocky Hill location will be closed for deep cleaning following today's notice of an employee testing positive for COVID-19, the lottery announced We
Apr 2, 2020, 1:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery scraps privatization planNews Story
The Canadian province of Ontario has scrapped plans to privatize its state-run lottery business. In a statement issued on Friday, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp (OLG) announced that it had cancelled its request for proposals (RFP) for private operators interested in taking over management of its lottery operations, which generated sales of C$3.8b (US$2.9b) in fiscal 2015-16. Ontario's ruling Liberal government had issued the RFP in 2014, which generated bids from established gaming co
Sep 26, 2016, 8:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Missouri Gov. orders review of Lottery operationsNews Story
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has asked the state Office of Administration to carry out a comprehensive review of the Missouri Lottery's operations. The lottery posted more than $1.14 billion in sales last year, according to unaudited figures, but its $267.3 million profit (which goes to education funding) was $31 million short of its goal and was below 2006 totals when adjusted for inflation. The governor cited declining lottery and casino revenue in his decision to withhold $35 million of educ
Jul 24, 2014, 10:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

Can anyone PLEASE explain to me about OPEN AND CLOSED numbers??Reply
ZEN, in english grammar I know what open closed sentences are. A closed sentence is one that is always true. For example: Three is an odd number. An open sentence can be true or false. For example: Y is a negative number. It depends on the value that we give to Y. Also a set of #s can be closed under any of the operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. I believe you only have to use two of the operations above. As in the example in the last link with the 235, perha
Sep 24, 2009, 5:37 pm - LAVERNE MALONEY - Pick 3 Forum

Yukon lotteries go under microscopeNews Story
Lottery operations in the Yukon are currently under review, in the wake of similar probes in other Canadian provinces, but Yukon lottery officials foresee no problems. The Western Lottery Corp. has hired Ernst Young to audit its operations, which include those in the Western provinces and the Yukon. A final report is expected by late September. The audit will examine, in part, how many lottery retailers are winning at games for which they sell the tickets something Yukon Lottery Commis
Jun 4, 2007, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Americans gamble over half a trillion dollars illegally each year, AGA Report saysReply
As legal gambling started spreading across the country, via tiverboat casinos at fitst, a lot of the opposition came from churches. Some churches were basing their stance on money won ganbling is ill gotten gains (Gomer Pyle), but the stiffest resistance came from Catholic churches, not based on moral turpitude but becuase they saw it as a threat to their bingo operations, especially churches in lesser populated places (where a lor of boats were) because they knew they were no longer going to be
Dec 5, 2022, 10:42 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery News

3 probability math puzzlesReply
I believe that mathematical puzzles have to do with the lottery, for example those puzzles, like what they say, think of a number, add such an amount, subtract such an amount, the result is this, so in the lottery it is the same, since in the lottery the results are predetermined, and in computing there are only 2 types of basic operations that is addition and subtraction that's all, regardsssss... .
Jul 22, 2022, 8:56 am - Mayte - Mathematics Forum