N.J. Lottery to end live broadcast of midday drawing
Is $100,000 in cost-savings worth the loss of midday drawing broadcasts?
Beginning Friday, the New Jersey Lottery Commission will stop airing live drawings at 1 p.m. on the state's public television network in an effort to save money.
Only summaries of the results of the Pick 3 and Pick 4 lotteries will be shown on New Jersey Network at 1 p.m., the state Lottery Commission said today.
Video of the actual drawings will only be available on the commission's Web site.
The midday winning ...
May 11, 2009, 10:41 pm - - Lottery News forum
One Euro Millions lottery ticket wins €126M jackpot (US$170M)
One lucky lottery ticket from Spain matched 5 lotto numbers plus the two Lucky Stars in Friday's Euro Millions drawing to win a massive jackpot of 126 million (US$170 million).
The huge prize was the result of six successive drawings without a winner in the multi-country European lottery game.
The winning ticket, worth 126,231,764 (US$170,198,287), was sold in a central Madrid lottery sales office.
As one would expect, the winner has not yet been revealed. Government lottery offices nor ...
May 9, 2009, 5:15 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lawmaker critical of Gov's move to take lottery funds from schools
North Carolina State Representative Carolyn Justice says the governor's decision to take lottery funds has left some school districts in distress.
The $50 million in the Education Lottery Reserve Fund was supposed to pay for school construction costs, some for this school year.
The Pender County Republican says that's going to hurt local school districts.
If those counties already issued bonds planning on that money to pay their debt, they're in trouble right now. And this hasn't even ...
Mar 23, 2009, 3:03 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery's raffle drawing is finally here
After seeing all the other raffle-drawing states crown their millionaires during the holiday season, New Jersey lottery players may have gotten restless.
But tonight is now their night.
The full list of winning numbers for the Jersey Jackpot Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's New Jersey Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/nj).
Jersey Jackpot Raffle, a short-term raffle-style game, will make 1,216 lucky players richer, with prizes ranging from $250 up to the top $2 milli ...
Jan 21, 2009, 8:33 pm - - Lottery News forum
Missouri Lottery raffle makes a millionaire
Somebody is $1 million richer following the Missouri Lottery's Million-Dollar Raffle drawing, which was held today.
One winning raffle number was drawn for the $1 million top prize, four winning numbers were drawn to win $100,000 and 440 lucky players' winning numbers were drawn to receive $500.
The complete list of winning numbers is available on Lottery Post's Missouri Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/mo).
The winning raffle number for the top prize of $1 million is 0 ...
Jan 20, 2009, 7:56 pm - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery celebrates 10th raffle drawing
Michigan: more raffle draws than any other state
The Michigan Lottery's Millionaire Raffle is back in action, now with its tenth drawing conducted.
The complete list of winning numbers for the latest raffle draw can be found on Lottery Post's Michigan Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/mi).
The $20 raffle tickets went on sale Nov. 10, and a total of 600,000 were available for the drawing. All the tickets were sold out prior to the draw.
In the drawing held earlier toda ...
Jan 5, 2009, 11:08 pm - - Lottery News forum
Pennsylvania Lottery's raffle makes 4 millionaires
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made four instant millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found at Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Lottery Results page (http://www.lotterypost.com/results/pa)
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 for a single ticket to win $1 million o ...
Jan 4, 2009, 10:36 am - - Lottery News forum
Minnesota Lottery draws winning numbers in raffle
The Minnesota Lottery selected the winning numbers Thursday for its special Millionaire Raffle drawing.
The full set of winning numbers are available on Lottery Post's Minnesota Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/mn).
Millionaire Raffle is the third annual holiday raffle game from the Minnesota State Lottery.
Players purchased tickets for $10 each. Tickets went on sale Oct. 19 and were completely sold out by Dec. 28. The raffle has sold out in each of its three years.
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Jan 1, 2009, 11:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
Rhode Island Lottery celebrates first raffle drawing
Rhode Island didn't have any trouble selling out its first-ever raffle game.
The drawing was held last night, and the full list of winning numbers are available on Lottery Post's Rhode Island Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/ri).
With only 120,000 tickets available for sale, the state Lottery Commission proclaimed the New Year's Eve drawing as having the best odds among New England lotteries to win $1 million.
Tickets for the raffle cost $20 each.
In addition to the ...
Jan 1, 2009, 10:55 pm - - Lottery News forum
Powerball lottery to have larger jackpot, but harder to win
The Powerball lottery game will be going through some changes beginning in January, including having a larger starting jackpot that is more difficult to win.
Starting on Jan. 4, Florida will join the 30 United States lotteries that now offer Powerball, adding a population of 18.8 million to those who have the chance to play the game.
The starting jackpot will jump from $15 million to $20 million, the world's largest starting jackpot for a lotto-style game. In addition, the average jackpot ...
Dec 29, 2008, 11:21 am - - Lottery News forum
