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Illinois Rep. Boland Wants to Add KenoNews Story
The stakes are high for state Rep. Mike Boland, D-Moline: $130 million.That's his estimate of what the state of Illinois could rake in annually if Club Keno were added to the lottery mix. Also known as Quick Draw Lotto, it is similar to a standard Lotto game with one big advantage: instead of one to five drawings per week, Keno numbers usually are drawn every five minutes.Players would know right away whether the numbers they picked matched those randomly selected by a computer. The game would e
Aug 29, 2003, 12:19 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery Introduces 'Front Pair Payout' Promotion for Daily 4News Story
Michigan Lottery players will soon have yet another way to win cash prizes with the Lottery's Daily 4 game thanks to the Lottery's newest promotion -- Front Pair Payout. In the Daily 4 game, Lottery players choose any four-digit number and then place a $1 bet for that drawing. There are three different ways to place bets in the Daily 4 game -- straight, boxed and two-way. If a player chooses to play a number straight, he or she would need to match the number he or she picked in the exact order
Aug 29, 2003, 11:20 am - Lottery News

Friends in lottery club win $175,000News Story
Ten women who have been pooling their money to buy lottery tickets for about eight years finally have something to show for it -- $175,000.The women, who call themselves The Millionaire's Club of Jackson, matched five numbers in the Aug. 15 drawing of Mega Millions, lottery officials announced Tuesday. The group didn't match the Gold Mega Ball number, which would have given them the $12 million jackpot. I started jumping up and down with excitement when I discovered we had really won, Della Swa
Aug 28, 2003, 4:28 am - Lottery News

GTECH lottery systems built to handle blackoutNews Story
If someone you know bought a lottery ticket in Ohio, Michigan or New York in the seconds before the power went out Thursday, don't worry.That ticket is valid, and could still win a zillion dollars.GTECH Holdings Corp. of West Greenwich runs the lotteries in all three states, and its job is to keep those state lottery systems up and running -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.So Thursday, when the power went out, GTECH's systems in all three states automatically switched the lottery data centers --
Aug 19, 2003, 3:40 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Jackpot Rolls to $15 MillionNews Story
No ticket matched all six numbers in the Friday Mega Millions drawing, increasing the jackpot to $15 million for the Tuesday, August 19, 2003 drawing.Mega Millions players won more than $1.5 million in Friday's drawing. A total of 225,385 tickets won prizes ranging from $2 to $175,000.Three tickets came within just one number of hitting the jackpot. They matched the first five numbers and only missed the Mega Ball number to each win $175,000. Those tickets were sold in Georgia, Michigan and N
Aug 18, 2003, 3:40 am - Lottery News

Lawsuit has a pull-tab lottery plan on holdNews Story
A new Michigan instant lottery game planned for bars this fall is mired in a court fight over whether it is legal and is unfair competition to charities that sell similar pull-tab games.The dispute threatens to unravel half of a lottery plan that Gov. Jennifer Granholm said would add $50 million a year to the cash-hungry state budget.A lawsuit has temporarily blocked the new pull-tab lottery game, charging that it would violate state lottery laws. The new state game was supposed to be available
Aug 13, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News