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Some players confused by new Michigan Lottery poker gameNews Story
It debuted Oct. 19, but Poker Lotto, a new daily lottery drawing by the Michigan Lottery, is still trying to gain the attention and understanding among lottery players. It has created a little confusion, too, said lottery officials. It's so new that we're getting so many calls in Lansing, said Gretchen Villareal of the Michigan Lottery. People are not grasping the concept of instant wins and the nightly draw. How to play Poker Lotto is a new nightly game where players use easy pic
Nov 3, 2013, 3:33 pm - Lottery News

Man changes his mind about suing Washington LotteryNews Story
The Kennewick, Washington, man says he has decided to back off plans to sue the Washington State Lottery Commission over a misleading scratch card game. Ken Goldsmith raised objections with state lottery officials in June claiming the Red Hot 5s scratch card was misleading, giving many ticket holders, including himself, the impression they had won the $55,555 grand prize. (See Washington man to fight state lottery; says new scratch card 'misleading', Lottery Post, June 17, 2013.) After
Sep 2, 2013, 7:41 am - Lottery News

Washington man to fight state lottery; says new scratch card 'misleading'News Story
A Kennewick, Washington, man plans to fight the Washington State Lottery in court over a scratch card payoff that didn't pan out. Ken Goldsmith, 55, recently bought one of the newest scratch cards, Red Hot 5s, and thought he scored the top prize of $55,555 by matching one of the numbers. But when he scanned the card at a lottery kiosk, it came up a loser. I called the lottery office in Olympia to find out why it scanned a loser, but they knew what scratch card I was referring to before
Jun 17, 2013, 9:43 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.News Story
Come this fall, winning the multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot will become even more difficult in the 45 states and jurisdictions that offer the lotto game. The consortium that operates Mega Millions is upping the odds to 1 in about 258.9 million that someone picks all six numbers right. The current odds are 1 in about 175.7 million that a person correctly chooses five of 56 numbered white balls and one of 46 gold balls. The odds will change under a new format for the Oct. 22 dra
May 20, 2013, 6:14 am - Lottery News

Multi-state Wild Card game to changeNews Story
By Todd Northrop Starting with the Wednesday night drawing, the multi-state Wild Card 2 lottery game will undergo some minor changes that will make the jackpots a little bigger, while making the game a little harder to win. Wild Card 2 is currently available to play in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. After somebody wins the jackpot, the new starting jackpot will be $200,000 doubling the old starting jackpot of $100,000. Also, players who win the second prize by matchin
Jan 15, 2013, 2:18 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery approves online ticket salesNews Story
Georgia Lottery officials approved for the first time Thursday an online ticket system, with sales to the public set to begin as soon as November. The move is expected to increase the Georgia Lottery's revenue by millions of dollars a year thus helping the state's lottery-funded HOPE Scholarships and pre-kindergarten programs and positions Georgia among the first states nationwide to officially expand lottery sales to the Internet. While the lottery's governing board voted unanimously for
Jul 20, 2012, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Court: Police can collect $1M lottery prizeNews Story
The police in Medford, Oregon, can collect much of a $1 million prize from the Oregon Lottery that came from a scratch ticket bought with a dead woman's credit card, Oregon's appeals court has ruled. Oregon allows police to keep money seized in criminal activity. The winnings were awarded to the police when Christina Elizabeth Goodenow, 45, pleaded no contest to using the card that belonged to her boyfriend's mother said. For starters, Chief Tim George said, the windfall will be used to ex
Jul 13, 2012, 10:45 am - Lottery News

Focus group member is first winner of new Kentucky Lottery gameNews Story
Big win comes less than one week after game's launch When Louisville resident Steven McIntyre received a coupon in the mail last week from the Kentucky Lottery, he admits he never could have anticipated being at lottery headquarters days later holding a four-foot-long check for $100,000. But that was the scene Monday morning as McIntyre became the first top prize winner in the new 5 Card Cash game. He matched all five card symbols from Saturday night's drawing to win the $100,000 top prize
Feb 21, 2012, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery conducts $10M Raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Massachusetts Lottery today conducted the state's second massive raffle drawing it's first in more than four years awarding a $7 million prize, a $1 million prize, and many more other cash prizes. However good the prizes may be for lottery players, for the state the drawing is bittersweet, since nearly half of the 1 million tickets went unsold. Lottery officials will hand out more than $10 million in prize money to 1,067 ticket holders even though the game generated
Jan 1, 2012, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. legislators float idea that lower prizes will bring in more moneyNews Story
Task force says 'bad idea' Some Tennessee legislators are eying a reduction in prize payouts for Tennessee lottery players while letting them buy tickets with debit or credit cards. The proposals are among ideas that are being floated as a way to generate more money that can be used for college scholarships. Both were criticized at a meeting last week of the Senate Lottery Stabilization Task Force with a lottery official suggesting that a cut in prizes could be a bad business decision a
Oct 31, 2011, 7:38 pm - Lottery News