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Connecticut lawmaker may request hearings over costly drawing errorNews Story
It should have been so easy for the five-member team in charge of a Jan. 1 lottery drawing to enter and verify the right numbers in a machine that electronically selected the winners of the Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game. Such an easy thing, but now so many problems. The team members had the benefit of illustrated, step-by-step instructions that you or I could follow in the form an Official Drawing Procedures manual for the game in which $10 tickets were
Jan 6, 2018, 6:17 pm - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees on paid leave during probe of botched drawingNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. said Wednesday that it has placed two employees on paid administrative leave while it investigates a human error that shut 100,000 eligible tickets out of Monday's drawing in the New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game, forcing a second drawing yet to be scheduled. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Investigations are being conducted by both the CT Lottery and the [state] Departm
Jan 4, 2018, 3:22 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error'News Story
Error made 100,000 raffle tickets unable to win Players of a special New Year's lottery raffle game in Connecticut may be out of luck if they tossed their tickets, after officials disclosed they need to hold a new drawing after 100,000 eligible tickets were mistakenly disregarded Monday. The Connecticut Lottery said there was a problem with the drawing due to human error, and a second drawing will be announced later this week. Winning tickets from both drawings will be honored, according t
Jan 2, 2018, 9:12 am - Lottery News

Montana Lottery draws annual Montana Millionaire raffle winning numbersNews Story
The Montana Millionaire winning numbers were drawn on Friday, and the grand-prize-winning ticket worth $1 million was sold in Butte. The million-dollar ticket number is 024279. There were also three tickets worth $100,000 each; one was sold in Butte, and two were sold in Great Falls. The winning numbers are 023452, 083597, and 147877. There were five $10,000 tickets sold; two were sold in Billings, and one each was sold in Glasgow, Laurel, and Hamilton. The complete list of winning n
Dec 30, 2017, 9:08 am - Lottery News

Two $1 million Va. Millionaire Raffle tickets due to expire this monthNews Story
By Todd Northrop Two $1 million-winning Virginia Millionaire Raffle lottery tickets drawn on New Year's Day have not yet been claimed and are due to expire by the end of June. One of the winning tickets was bought at a 7-Eleven on West Broad Street in Richmond. The other was purchased in Lynchburg. In Virginia, winning lottery tickets must be claimed within 180 days after the numbers were drawn or they become worthless. This means that each of the tickets will no longer be valid afte
Jun 1, 2017, 4:36 pm - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery announces St. Patrick's Day Raffle winnersNews Story
(One month after St. Patrick's Day) Idaho Lottery officials on Wednesday announced the winning ticket numbers for the St. Patrick's Day Raffle, including the $100,000 top prize. The raffle, which sold out its 50,000 available tickets in just 22 days, features a total of more than 6,800 winning ticket numbers, the most ever awarded by any of the Lottery's raffle games, officials said. The winning number for the $100,000 prize was 028325. In addition to the top prize, the Idaho Lottery
Apr 13, 2017, 8:49 am - Lottery News

Spain's El Gordo lottery sparks celebrations across MadridNews Story
Workers at a home for the elderly were among those celebrating Thursday in Madrid, Spain, after all the tickets with the top prize-winning number in Spain's 2.3 billion (US$2.4 billion) Christmas lottery were sold in one city neighborhood. The number 66513 appeared on 1,650 tickets in the lottery known as El Gordo ( The Fat One ), with each ticket holder winning 400,000 (US$418,000). The winning tickets are normally sold in several different lottery offices around the country but this time
Dec 23, 2016, 11:48 am - Lottery News

Australian family win $4m beach house lottery after spending $200 on ticketsNews Story
Includes video report One lucky Australian family has won an oceanfront house worth nearly $4 million after spending $200 on lottery raffle tickets. James Burry, 40, was announced the winner of the biggest beach house lottery ever held in Sydney. The North Manly fire protection worker's prize is a four-bedroom house in Freshwater with uninterrupted ocean views stretching from Manly to Curl Curl. The newly built home is laced with luxury fittings and sits atop a coastal cliff about fi
Oct 13, 2016, 7:30 pm - Lottery News

After cheating death in plane crash, Indian man wins $1M lottery days laterNews Story
After surviving a fiery plane crash, an Indian man has beaten the odds again, this time winning $1 million in the lottery. Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, 62, of Dubai, was on board Emirates Flight 521 when it burst into flames and skidded after landing at the Dubai International airport on Aug. 3. His lucky ticket number 0845 was drawn Tuesaday in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire at Concourse A at Dubai International Airport, winning him a cool $1 million (Dh3.67 million). Ind
Aug 11, 2016, 8:22 am - Lottery News

Scotland family celebrates third big lottery prizeNews Story
By Todd Northrop An elderly couple from Scotland are celebrating a 1 million (US$1.5 million) lottery payout that continues an amazing family run of Lotto luck. Peter Fry, 90, and his wife Mary, 86, landed the huge prize in the Lotto Millionaire Raffle and have been hailed as Scotland's luckiest family. The couple, from Bo'ness, West Lothian, shared the win with their three daughters, Margaret, 64, Janet, 59, and Isobel, 57. The family play together, purchasing five lines twice a week,
May 31, 2016, 8:43 am - Lottery News