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Lottery officials to name $86M Powerball winnersNews Story
Who won last week's Powerball jackpot? That's the $86 million question and Pennsylvania lottery officials have the answer. Officials plan to announce the winners at a news conference Friday at lottery headquarters in Middletown. The winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Turkey Hill convenience store in Lancaster County. The jackpot from the Aug. 2 drawing is worth an $86.3 million annuity or $42.5 million cash minus 25 percent in federal taxes.
Aug 8, 2008, 8:28 am - Lottery News

New Penn. Lottery 5-digit game on sale Aug. 26News Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest game is the 5-digit numbers game, Quinto, offering 13 ways to play and win up to $50,000 cash. Drawings will be held both at midday and evening, seven days a week. Tickets for Quinto will cost $1 each. The new game is played similar to Pick 3 and Pick 4 games, except with Quinto there are 5 positions for the numbers 0 through 9. For a $1 purchase, players can wager Straight, Front 4, Back 4, Front 3, Back 3, Front Pair, Back Pair or Box, as follows:
Aug 5, 2008, 12:59 pm - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/pa-lottery-raffle-2008-07-05.asp Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Pennsylvania Lottery game. Each
Jul 6, 2008, 2:42 am - Lottery News

Scientific Games wins Pennsylvania Lottery contractNews Story
Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf today announced that after reviewing best and final offers, the department has selected Scientific Games International Inc. to supply terminal-based game services to the Pennsylvania Lottery. Scientific Games, based in Alpharetta, Ga., was chosen following an open and competitive procurement process. Wolf said a committee comprised of employees from the Department of Revenue and the PA Lottery began evaluating vendor proposals in July. In January, Wolf annou
Apr 30, 2008, 9:39 am - Lottery News

GTECH awarded Pennsylvania, West Virginia lottery contractsNews Story
Lottomatica SpA said its wholly-owned subsidiary GTECH has been told by the Pennsylvania State Lottery of its intent to award GTECH a 5-year contract to provide online and instant integrated services. The proposed contract, which is expected to kick in in January 2009, includes five 1-year extension options exercisable at the Lottery's discretion. The Pennsylvania Lottery ranks sixth in the US in terms of total lottery sales, with revenues of $3.076 billion in its most recent fiscal year.
Jan 16, 2008, 10:39 am - Lottery News

Relative gives lottery ticket gift worth $1 millionNews Story
A pharmacist put the axiom about it being better to give than to receive to the ultimate Christmas test. Fred DePasquale bought a selection of tickets in a $1 million lottery and gave them to family. The 38-year-old, who essentially handed $1 million to in-laws (whom he won't name for the time being) for Christmas, was having no second thoughts. He was delighted to give the winning ticket. I'm just not a lottery player, DePasquale said. But for a raffle like this, you buy them and
Jan 7, 2008, 5:52 pm - Lottery News

New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made five instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/pa-lottery-raffle-2007-12-29.asp Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 625,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Pennsylvania Lottery game. This r
Dec 30, 2007, 2:04 pm - Lottery News

Texas students rank USA lotteriesNews Story
California, Pennsylvania best; Tennessee worst Gerald Busald is at it again. For more than a decade, the 65-year-old math professor at San Antonio College has turned scrutiny of the Texas Lottery into a classroom project. Armed with calculators, Busald and his students have exposed false advertising, attracted the media spotlight and sparked change. This year, Busald and his students are aiming beyond Texas. On Friday, they unveiled a ranking of every lottery in the United States based
Dec 20, 2007, 7:34 pm - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins $1M lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Deb Redding joked with a man buying lottery tickets at the customer service counter at New Oxford Shurfine Market on Monday afternoon. I think you might win, she said. It wouldn't be a stretch. Since 2002, two people have now become big winners after buying lottery tickets at the store along Route 30. Most recently, luck was with Hanover resident Brenda Gaydos. She won one of five $1 million top prizes from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 7 Millionaire Raffle drawing, lottery official
Jul 24, 2007, 11:49 pm - Lottery News