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Texas Lottery Executive Director Gary Grief announces retirementNews Story
Lottery industry leader to step back after 32 years of service By Kate Northrop The Texas Lottery's Executive Director and longest-serving member Gary Grief announced he will retire at the end of February 2024. After 32 years of loyal service and dedication to the Texas Lottery, Executive Director Gary Grief will retire next month. Since 2010, Grief led the Texas Lottery in its mission to generate revenue for public education and veterans' services. He dedicated himself to a vari
Jan 26, 2024, 12:10 pm - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery bumps up Jersey Cash 5 jackpot to $1 million in new promotionNews Story
NJ Lottery launches weekly promotion that promises bigger prizes and chances to win By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery's current promotion instantly bumped up the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot to $1 million this week, with other bonuses in store for players this month. For the month of January, the New Jersey Lottery will be announcing weekly bonuses in its Winning Wednesdays promotion that will give players new chances to win and bigger prizes. This Wed., Jan. 10, the Jersey Cash
Jan 10, 2024, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed $1 million Powerball lottery ticket bought in Kentucky will expire this monthNews Story
Less than two weeks for the winner to come forward By Kate Northrop There isn't much time left for a Kentucky Lottery player to claim a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million, which is set to expire later this month. Whoever is holding a $1 million winning Powerball ticket in Kentucky better step forward to claim it soon or else risk losing out on the prize for good. Kentucky Lottery officials announced Wednesday that a winning Powerball ticket purchased at Pilot Travel Center
Jan 4, 2024, 6:57 am - Lottery News

Powerball welcomes 2024 with an $810 million New Year's Day jackpotNews Story
10th-largest jackpot in US history By Todd Northrop What a way to start the new year! In the lottery world, 2024 is starting with a loud bang, as the multi-state Powerball game is holding a drawing for a whopping $810 million jackpot on New Year's Day. The massive Powerball annuity jackpot estimate was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $786.1 million grand prize. It is the 10th-highest lottery jackpot in history, and the 5th-largest Powerball
Dec 31, 2023, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Spain's El Gordo dishes out €2.6 billion in annual Christmas lotteryNews Story
Winning numbers announced during event that lasted four hours By Kate Northrop Millions of households have been tuning in to watch El Gordo (The Fat One), the world-famous lottery that doles out over two billion in prizes every year. This year, the lottery is distributing a whopping 2.6 billion (US$2.86 billion) in prizes to winners across the country. It's not uncommon to see people rushing out into the street and erupting in celebration as the event progresses, perhaps popping a bo
Dec 22, 2023, 12:20 pm - 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

New Jersey Lottery Pick 3 results "1-1-1" and "1-0-1" set new payout recordNews Story
Yet another single day record thanks to lucky numbers and game change By Kate Northrop Lottery results for two New Jersey Pick 3 drawings in a row jointly produced a new prize payout record thanks to two combinations that were just one number off from each other. Ones and zeroes stole the show for New Jersey lottery players this past week after two consecutive drawings set yet another new single day prize payout record. On Wed., Oct. 11, New Jersey players saw the popular combina
Oct 15, 2023, 2:00 pm - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Powerball continues historic jackpot climbNews Story
4th-largest lottery jackpot in world history set for Monday drawing By Todd Northrop Following the massive Powerball drawing worth $1.43 billion Saturday night, get ready to head back to your local lottery retailer, because things have gotten even more interesting. That's because nobody won that Powerball lottery jackpot Saturday night, sending the Monday jackpot to heights only seen three times previously in world lottery history. Monday's Powerball jackpot is currently estimat
Oct 8, 2023, 12:29 am - Lottery News

$1.4 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingNews Story
5th-largest lottery jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Last night, the multi-state Powerball lottery game produced no top winner for the 33rd consecutive drawing, prompting lottery officials to raise the game's jackpot to an astonishing $1.4 billion. A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $643.7 million more than a half-billion dollars in cash! It's the stuff that a lottery player's dreams are made of holding a lottery ticket for an upcoming Powerbal
Oct 5, 2023, 6:52 am - Lottery News

$1.04 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot increases againNews Story
4th billion-dollar lottery jackpot this year By Todd Northrop For the fourth time in 2023, a lottery jackpot has reached $1 billion or more twice with the Mega Millions game, and now twice with Powerball. The latest billion-dollar jackpot of the year comes after nobody won last night's Powerball multi-state lottery drawing, sending the Monday jackpot to heights that once seemed unattainable for a lottery game. Monday's Powerball jackpot is currently estimated at $1.04 billion, w
Oct 1, 2023, 8:29 am - Lottery News