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Court finds that skill games are legal in PennsylvaniaNews Story
State casinos and lottery to co-exist with skill game machines By Kate Northrop The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court found that unregulated skill games are legal in Pennsylvania, much to the disappointment of online and retail casinos. Unregulated skill games are now considered legal in Pennsylvania after a court order from the Commonwealth Court clarified their stance on whether skill games are considered games of chance or skill. The legality of skill games, as well as what exac
Dec 8, 2023, 7:22 am - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery Commission votes to approve $50,000 prize claim to winner whose ticket was ripped upNews Story
Commission votes in the same meeting to deny $500 payout to another player By Kate Northrop Within the same meeting, the Hoosier Lottery Commission voted to approve a $50,000 prize claim to a winner whose ticket was ripped up and to deny a $500 prize to another scratch-off winner who posted their winning ticket online. The Hoosier Lottery Commission was faced with two rather interesting cases regarding the validity of two very different prize claims and ultimately voted to approve on
Dec 2, 2023, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball resultsNews Story
Players who claimed prizes under wrong numbers can keep their winnings By Kate Northrop The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a human reporting error and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings. Several hours after the wrong Powerball numbers were posted on the Iowa Lottery's website the night of the drawing on Mon., Nov. 27, the Lottery removed the incorrect sequence and republished the
Nov 30, 2023, 9:12 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth over $64,000 to expire WednesdayNews Story
Prize will go by the wayside right before Thanksgiving By Kate Northrop A winning Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth over $64,000 is set to expire tomorrow if someone doesn't come forward to claim it. One lucky or not so lucky lottery player will lose out on claiming $64,564.01 from the Florida Lottery if they don't visit a Lottery District Office with the winning ticket before Thanksgiving. Someone bought a winning Fantasy 5 Quick Pick ticket at the Shell Food Mart on Southw
Nov 21, 2023, 3:16 pm - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman accidentally receives $20,000 worth of lottery tickets in the mailNews Story
What would you do? Includes video report By Kate Northrop A Massachusetts woman was dumbfounded when she opened a misdelivered box that contained $20,000 worth of unscratched Massachusetts Lottery tickets from FedEx. Danielle Alexandrov was utterly baffled when a FedEx delivery of $20,000 worth of lottery tickets showed up at her door. I start going through the boxes, everything is normal until I get a box that is very heavy, the Falmouth resident explained to WCVB. I open it
Nov 15, 2023, 11:26 am - Lottery News

Lottery Post's guide to 2023 holiday raffles across the USANews Story
U.S. states to host annual holiday raffles this year Montana Millionaire raffle tickets sell out in five hours By Kate Northrop Within a mere five hours of sales for Montana's Millionaire raffle going live, all 380,000 tickets were sold out. This year marked an unheard-of demand for the Montana Millionaire raffle, even more so than the unprecedented response that Montana Lottery officials saw to their statewide raffle last year. For reference, tickets sold out in 29 hours after g
Nov 2, 2023, 7:16 pm - Lottery News

California man asks clerk to choose a lottery game for him, ends up picking out a ticket worth $10MNews Story
The clerk could have picked a different game, but he didn't. He grabbed a winner. By Kate Northrop A California man didn't know which scratch-off lottery ticket to buy, but its thanks to the clerk's selection that he walked out the store holding a ticket worth $10 million. Brent Young didn't have much of a preference for which lottery ticket he wanted to buy, so he had the clerk pick out a game for him. Suddenly, it mattered a whole lot more the ticket selected for him by the cashie
Oct 20, 2023, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Washington Lottery to begin offering Cash Pop gameNews Story
Washington becomes the latest state to offer draw game By Kate Northrop The Washington Lottery will become the latest lottery to launch Cash Pop, a draw game that has seen a rise in popularity among other states within the past couple years. Cash Pop is making its way into Washington, to be available later this month for players to try out. Washington's Lottery's Cash Pop will operate just like versions of the game drawn in other states, with one exception. Before Washington,
Oct 16, 2023, 1:20 pm - Lottery News

Virginia woman finds two-month-old $100,000 Powerball lottery ticket while rifling through papersNews Story
Don't forget where you put your tickets! By Kate Northrop A Virginia woman was going through some papers when she came across a forgotten winning Powerball ticket worth $100,000. Two months after the drawing had taken place, a Virginia woman found a winning Powerball ticket worth $100,000. An anonymous woman from Springfield, Virginia claimed a $100,000 Powerball prize on Wednesday at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. She was sifting through some papers when she found a
Sep 25, 2023, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Arkansas woman almost gifts winning lottery ticket to ex-father-in-lawNews Story
Gift giver decides to keep lottery ticket at the last minute not knowing it was a winner By Kate Northrop An Arkansas woman nearly gave away a scratch-off lottery ticket that would have won the gift recipient $75,000, but she decided to keep the ticket in the end. A lottery player who resides in Texarkana, Arkansas almost gifted a winning lottery ticket to her ex-father-in-law for his birthday, but the decision to leave it out of the envelope meant she won a huge prize instead. P
Sep 11, 2023, 1:32 pm - Lottery News