21 tickets win Maryland Lottery's Bonus Match 5
Lottery players throughout the State of Maryland should check their Bonus Match 5 tickets for a little something extra this holiday season.
Saturday night's drawing produced 21 winning tickets. The winning numbers were 02, 03, 04, 05, 08 and Bonus Ball 30. Top-tier winners must match the first five numbers.
If twelve or more winning tickets are sold in a single drawing, each winner will receive an equal share of a $600,000 pari-mutuel pool. Since 21 winning tickets were sold, each ticket ...
Dec 26, 2006, 7:08 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery changing broadcast network
The Maryland Lottery drawings will have a new home next month.
The state Board of Public Works today is expected to award WBAL TV a four year, $10 million broadcasting contract to televise the drawings. The Maryland Lottery has been on WJZ TV for the last 12 years.
WBAL TV will get about $2.5 million a year to show the drawings, up from the $1.4 million the state currently pays.
Lottery director Buddy Roogow says WBAL pledged to advertise the games more frequently and air drawings on th ...
Dec 20, 2006, 2:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland budget deficit looms as lottery revenue falls off
Maryland's lottery has been slowing down as a revenue source for years and will continue to underperform as residents seek other gambling ventures, including betting on slot machines in neighboring states, budget analysts and state officials say.
The lottery has been, until very recently, the third-largest general fund revenues source, said David Roose, director of the state's Bureau of Revenue Estimates. But in the last few years the corporate income tax has become the third-largest.
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Nov 29, 2006, 8:21 am - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery to offer limited-run raffle-style game
The Maryland Lottery will add a new and completely different type of game to its product mix on November 20th with the launch of Countdown to Millions, a $20 raffle-style game.
Unlike other lottery and jackpot games, Countdown to Millions offers a limited number of tickets designed to be sold in their entirety prior to awarding prizes.
The game differs from other lottery and jackpot games where the total number of possible combinations seldom, if ever, sells out. As we move into the hol ...
Nov 18, 2006, 7:53 pm - - Lottery News forum
Md. Lottery scrambles to hire new ad agency
The Maryland Lottery can't air television commercials or buy other advertising for at least the next three weeks because the company that produced and purchased marketing spots for the state's games of chance went out of business.
The Baltimore advertising firm Eisner Communications unexpectedly closed Friday, saying it had run out of money, leaving a number of large clients in the lurch. The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Provident Bank and Florida-based Spirit Airlines also are left lookin ...
Nov 14, 2006, 11:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Mysterious $49 Million Mega Millions Winner Claims Prize
The waiting is over for Maryland residents waiting to discover who bought a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $49 million in the July 18th drawing. Well, sort of.
The mystery winner walked into Lottery Headquarters Monday morning. Accompanied by his wife, a family friend and his lawyer, the nervous winner showed Lottery officials the $49 Million ticket from the July 18th Mega Millions drawing.
The winner, who wished to remain anonymous, is from Prince Georges County, MD.
The teary-e ...
Aug 23, 2006, 1:02 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery to add horse race tie-in
A good idea is a jewel to behold, even if it seems to come out of left field, or, say, the backstretch where the main goal is aimed at a winner's circle somewhere else.
In Maryland racing a couple of weeks ago, a good idea surfaced in the form of an announcement about a lottery campaign with a brilliant tie-in to the Maryland Million, the signature day of racing for state-sired horses. The Million, set for October 14, will come up for the 21st time this year, at Laurel Park, and this time aro ...
Aug 21, 2006, 1:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery sales top $1.5 billion for first time
5% increase means more than $501 million for state
Maryland Lottery sales topped $1.5 billion for the first time in the fiscal year that ended in June, a jump of more than 5 percent from the year before, lottery director Buddy Roogow said yesterday.
More than $501 million in revenue is headed to the state's coffers, exceeding budget estimates by $10 million, Roogow said. Most is earmarked for the general fund, but more than $20 million will go toward the stadium fund. The lottery is the s ...
Jul 18, 2006, 11:51 am - - Lottery News forum
"666" is hot with Maryland Lottery players
Yesterday's date inspired a popular Pick 3 lottery combination: 666.
But not for long.
The Maryland State Lottery stopped selling midday and evening Pick 3 tickets with that combination late yesterday morning, according to Buddy W. Roogow, the lottery's director. The agency cuts off play when the state's liability on a payout reaches $7 million.
Other sold-out combinations? 066, 660, 6666, 6606, 6066 for the evening drawings. All were variations of June 6, 2006 - a date that represen ...
Jun 7, 2006, 8:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery machine glitches frustrate players
New system suffers long breakdowns, customers complain
A new lottery sales system being installed at thousands of convenience, liquor and grocery stores statewide has experienced breakdowns of up to several hours at a time this week, Maryland Lottery officials said Friday. Store owners and avid players in search of their daily numbers were frustrated and furious.
Customers have let store owners hear their displeasure especially those who can't play the popular Keno game.
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Jun 5, 2006, 7:12 am - - Lottery News forum
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