N.M. Lottery's Roadrunner Cash game changing this weekend
The New Mexico Lottery is changing the in-state Roadrunner Cash game to create a larger starting prize and jackpots that grow larger, faster.
The game will feature a starting jackpot of $25,000, up from $20,000, and a new $1 prize for matching two of five numbers.
The changes will take effect this weekend, starting with the Oct. 5th drawing.
To offer the enhancements, more numbers will be added to the game's number pool. Players will pick five numbers from 1 to 37, up from the current m ...
Oct 2, 2009, 3:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
Scholarship student designed N.M Lottery scratch game ticket
Full circle: student educated with lottery scholarship funds now works for lottery
The New Mexico Lottery in August launched Red vs. Green, an instant scratch-off game that was designed by a 22-year-old lottery graphic designer who attended UNM on a Legislative Lottery Scholarship.
The new game depicts the state's favorite cuisine as overheated chile track stars competing in a frantic footrace.
Red vs. Green tickets cost $1 each. Players can win instant prizes up to $2,000, and non-winn ...
Sep 1, 2009, 11:11 am - - Lottery News forum
N.M. Lottery to replace Powerball tickets printed in error
The New Mexico Lottery has discovered that approximately 450 Powerball wagers were printed in error earlier this month.
The wagers were purchased from two self-service lottery machines provided by Intralot, Inc., the lottery's gaming system vendor.
Players who purchased those wagers will be offered a replacement ticket for the Jan. 28 drawing.
The error occurred when Intralot deployed two self-service lottery machines before upgrading internal software supporting Powerball's new format. ...
Jan 23, 2009, 6:56 pm - - Lottery News forum
Group of nine claims $207M Powerball lottery jackpot
Nine friends from Roswell came to the New Mexico Lottery today to collect a Powerball jackpot of $206.9 million the New Mexico Lottery's largest prize ever.
The nine winners are Carl and Holly Baldwin, Kevin and Jessica Breedyk, Ron and Cindy Miller, Ryan and Nicole Miller, and Randy Miller. The friends elected to take the prize in a cash payment of $102.9 million rather than the annuity option of 30 payments over 29 years.
I Started Bawling
With money chipped in by her friends, a d ...
Oct 3, 2008, 5:25 pm - - Lottery News forum
Winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $200M sold in N.M.
Largest Powerball prize ever in New Mexico
Lottery offers advice to winner
The New Mexico Lottery announced Saturday that it sold the winning ticket for the $200 million Powerball jackpot prize drawn earlier that evening.
It was the only winning ticket nationwide.
The massive jackpot is the largest Powerball prize ever won in New Mexico.
The winning numbers were 13, 24, 29, 40, 52 and the red Powerball number was 29. The Power Play number was 4.
The numbers were drawn Saturday ...
Sep 28, 2008, 7:32 pm - - Lottery News forum
14 friends split $400,000 Powerball lottery prize
Fifteen friends who have been playing New Mexico Lottery games as a pool for six years claimed a $400,000 Powerball prize on Monday.
The friends mostly co-workers at Albuquerque Public Schools pooled $28 to buy tickets for the June 7 Powerball drawing. They purchased 14 tickets at $1 each and then spent an additional $1 to add Power Play to each wager. Power Play multiplies non-jackpot prizes between two and five times, depending on the Power Play number drawn.
On Sunday morning, the f ...
Jun 11, 2008, 9:15 am - - Lottery News forum
N.M. Lottery 'whips up' Indiana Jones scratch game
New game coincides with release of Indiana Jones movie later this month
When the latest Indiana Jones movie makes its debut later this month, lottery players in New Mexico will be able to continue the movie characters' quest for fortune by picking up the latest scratch game.
New Mexico lottery players will have a much safer archaeological adventure than the movie characters however, as they can dig for gold with just a spare quarter, and signing the back of the card is all it takes to keep ...
May 8, 2008, 3:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.M. Lottery's delicious new scratch game
The New Mexico Lottery's latest scratch-off game looks good enough to eat.
The $10,000 Hershey's Milk Chocolate instant scratch-off game is inspired by the candy manufacturer that produced the first affordable milk chocolate candy bar more than a century ago.
Available now, the $2 game features top prizes of $10,000.
The game's ticket is a replica of Hershey's well-recognized chocolate-brown and silver-foil candy wrapper.
In the play area, 10 potential winning numbers are concealed ...
Mar 26, 2008, 10:51 am - - Lottery News forum
New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USA
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 forum
N.M. Lottery introduces peppermint-scented holiday scratch game
The New Mexico Lottery last week introduced a new scratch game that is certain to be a hot gift item for lottery players this holiday season.
A scented Scratcher game from the New Mexico Lottery is available now to holiday shoppers seeking fun surprises for stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, greeting cards and those ever-practical and predictable presents of sweat socks and underwear.
The peppermint-scented Candy Cane Magic conceals 10 numbers under images of red-and-white candy mints.
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Nov 20, 2007, 10:40 am - - Lottery News forum
