Kentucky Cash Ball player wins 5 jackpots totaling $1 million
Santa Claus arrived two days late for a lucky someone who stopped by the Thorntons store at 5318 Preston Highway on Monday and paid $5 for five plays on the Kentucky Lottery's Cash Ball.In what lottery officials described as a relatively unusual maneuver, the person picked the same numbers on all five plays: 11, 14, 21, 24 and, for the Cash Ball, 22.Those five numbers were drawn Monday night, earning the lucky player a whopping $1 million from the five $200,000 top Cash Ball prizes.The odds of m ...
Dec 29, 2004, 8:14 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky man wins $300,000 lottery prize
A Hopkinsville, Kentucky man was celebrating his good luck after he purchased a $300,000 Kentucky lottery scratch-off ticket.Mark Baker, 31, of Hopkinsville, purchased the winning ticket on Oct. 8 at the Raceway convenience store on Fort Campbell Boulevard, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery.Baker was sitting in a car outside the store with his mother, Vickie, when he scratched the Silver Spectacular ticket and saw that he was a winner. I turned white as a ghost and started sh ...
Oct 18, 2004, 8:02 am - - Lottery News forum
Crossing the border is good luck for $200,000 lottery winner
A Clarksville, Tennessee man's luck turned green earlier this month when he won $200,000 in the Kentucky Cash Ball lottery.David Crowe, 56, told Kentucky lottery officials that even though Tennessee's lottery is up and running, it's the Flash Market store in Oak Grove, Ky., where he always buys his ticket.Crowe has been playing the lottery in Kentucky for 12 years. His wife, Sue, bought the winning ticket for him saying she just happened to be the one who went into the store. It was a quick pick ...
Sep 21, 2004, 7:04 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky Lottery rolls out new game
A kid's game - tic tac toe - is the Kentucky Lottery's newest online offering.Tic Tac Cash debuted Monday, the first game of its kind nationally, lottery officials said. It offers a $25,000 top prize.Concepts for other online games are on the drawing board as the lottery tries to recoup millions being lost across the border to the new state lottery in Tennessee.Kentucky Lottery President and CEO Arch Gleason said the goal is to keep our games fresh and fun. He said Tic Tac Cash fits that descr ...
Sep 1, 2004, 7:51 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky Lottery tries to stave off losses from competition
With record-smashing sales for two straight years, these should be heady times for the Kentucky Lottery.Even as lottery officials announced Thursday that a record $193.5 million in proceeds were turned over to the state last fiscal year, there was no time for celebration. Officials are too busy trying to stave off expected losses to Tennessee and its lottery that debuted this year.For years, the Kentucky Lottery reaped a windfall from Tennesseans who crossed the border to play the numbers games, ...
Aug 13, 2004, 8:51 am - - Lottery News forum
Tenn. lottery fans make fewer runs for the Kentucky border
Gene Dotson is something of a video-game-stool philosopher of luck.As a regular lottery player, the retiree from Nashville has good reason to think about these things.''Is there such a thing called luck?'' Dotson asked Tuesday, a twinkle in his eye and a cigarette between two fingers as he played a video poker game at a lottery outlet just north of the Tennessee-Kentucky line, 36 miles from home. ''Is it who you are? ''Why do people keep doing it? Why do I keep doing it?''Whatever the cosmic an ...
Aug 2, 2004, 9:52 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky Lottery sales set record last fiscal year
Kentucky Lottery ticket sales for the fiscal year ending June 30 totaled a record $725.2 million, a 7.7 percent increase over the previous year, state lottery officials announced yesterday.The figure is slightly higher than the $723.8 million predicted by lottery officials after a board meeting six weeks ago.At the same time, however, the board provided specifics about how much revenue has been lost since Tennessee began its lottery in mid-January and then added the popular Powerball game in mid ...
Jul 22, 2004, 7:19 am - - Lottery News forum
Kentucky to post record sales
Kentucky sales numbers soar despite losing substantial border ticket sales to TennesseeThe Kentucky Lottery Corp. expects its sales this fiscal year, which ends June 30, to hit a record $723.8 million meaning an extra $11 million for the state.That sales total would be about 8 percent higher than the previous peak, $673.5 million, which was set last year. And this year, state government's share will be a record $192 million, up from last year's previous record $180.7 million, officials estimated ...
Jun 4, 2004, 7:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Store clerks share lottery bonus
Larry Martin quietly laid a memo on the counter at Sav on Cigs on Thursday and walked away.Moments later, 12 employees at the convenience store learned they would get a piece of the $25,000 the store won for selling a winning Lotto South ticket. We were shocked, said clerk Mary Dailey. He gave us a memo and brought the checks out with the memo. He didn't say anything, then he left. The store had a long-standing policy that if it ever sold a winning ticket, it would share the prize with employe ...
May 28, 2004, 9:23 am - - Lottery News forum
Lotto prediction comes true for Kentucky couple
After signing to purchase a new home Friday, Pati and Stephen Kohl said they would have to win the lottery to make ends meet.The next day, they did just that.Stephen Kohl is one of 25 folks who are part a lottery office pool at Wild Flavors Inc. in Erlanger, Ky. The group won Saturdays $12.6 million Lotto South jackpot.Those in the pool chose the lump sum cash option and will receive nearly $177,800 each.This worked out just perfect. We bought a house on Friday and won the lottery on Saturday, s ...
May 21, 2004, 7:37 am - - Lottery News forum
