The smell of money: Scented lottery tickets unveiled in Colorado
Your trash can might enjoy the new game from the state lottery more than your wallet.
The Colorado Lottery unveiled its first scented scratch game today, the latest in a marketing strategy for gaming more reliant on gimmicks than payouts.
In May, there was Pac-Man. Now there will be coffee, chocolate and bouquet scented tickets.
But will patrons care how their ticket smells?
Erika Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the Colorado Lottery, thinks people will bite, especially women.
With scra ...
Jun 16, 2008, 3:08 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery win opens doors for N.Y. doorman
A beloved Park Avenue doorman who won $5 million in the state lottery wants to move on up and into the elegant, pre-war building where he works.
That way, I'll have the doorman open the door for me, says Richie Randazzo, 44, a bachelor who lives in a two-story home in Brooklyn.
But the lucky winner will have to wait because the only apartment for sale in the building at 1021 Park Ave. at East 85th Street is out of his range.So for now, Randazzo, who plans to continue working, will be a ...
Jun 16, 2008, 10:48 am - - Lottery News forum
Kellogg's worker won't change much after winning $1M lottery jackpot
Nancy Edwards headed to work $1 million richer this afternoon. Edwards, a Cave Spring, Georgia, resident employed at the Kellogg's plant in Rome, received a check today for winning the Georgia Lottery scratch-off game Cash Explosion then headed to her job at the plant.
The presentation was held during her lunch break at the Kangaroo station located at 3131 Maple St. in Lindale where Edwards purchased the $10 ticket from clerk, and friend, Tia Frick.
I'm so happy that I sold the $1 milli ...
Jun 4, 2008, 12:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
Man killed by train while looking at lottery ticket
A man is dead after being struck and killed by a train near Buffalo, New York, while examining a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Police say 48-year-old Ronald Wittenberg of Lackawanna did not respond to the train's blaring horn as it approached him from behind as he walked between the rails.
Wittenberg was returning from fishing with a friend shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday. Police were told he had his head down and was examining the lottery ticket.
Wittenberg died from massive head and inter ...
May 18, 2008, 9:47 pm - - Lottery News forum
Councilor seeks city-only lottery game
In the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, a council member is suggesting that the city launch its own lottery game to raise money for cash-strapped public schools.
District 1 Councilor Joffrey Smith is asking the city manager to file special legislation that would authorize the State Lottery Commission to create scratch ticket game that would be sold only in Worcester. Smith says proceeds from the game would do directly to public schools in the state's second-largest city.
Smith says he has ...
May 9, 2008, 11:59 am - - Lottery News forum
Seattle man will use lottery winnings for his mother's care
It's quite the Mother's Day gift: A Seattle man who won $1 million on a Lottery scratch ticket says he will use the money to take care of his 83-year-old mom.
Michael McManus, a nightshift supervisor at a local cargo company, has been taking care of his mother for the past six years after she suffered a stroke.
His winnings of $750,000 (what's left after federal taxes) will be used to keep his mother, Maryjane White or Honey as her sons call her, in her condominium, instead of sending he ...
May 9, 2008, 10:05 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
Kentucky man thought he won lottery jackpot
Misreads symbols on scratch game card
Stephen McGuire took a chance on his luck with big hopes and dreams.
I was dreaming of getting out of debt being able to financially able to do more things with my family, he says.
A dream McGuire thought became reality after finding this dollar sign in Lucky Loot part of the 100,000 dollar players club game.
I scratched it off. I went through see I won ten dollars, scratched the last one off, I thought I won 100,000 dollars. My wife, thoug ...
Apr 30, 2008, 8:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Mass. lottery store is success story
From the outside, it's just another Mobil station on Route 28: a brick building squatting on asphalt with a quartet of gasoline islands out front.
Inside is another story. Where shelves of chips and candy bars might have been, customers lean against narrow granite counters, holding scratch tickets by the handful, or lounge at one of the high-topped round tables, filling out blank Keno slips. There is no music, just the unceasing patter of five Lottery machines printing Mass Cash and MegaBucks ...
Apr 23, 2008, 1:50 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. man wins $200,000 on his first-ever lottery ticket
Talk about luck.
Herbert Marsh of High Point, North Carolina, won $200,000 the first time he played the lottery.
Going on a feeling something good would happen, Marsh bought a Powerball ticket for the Wednesday drawing that matched all five numbers.
Marsh told the North Carolina Education Lottery he plans to buy a new car with some of the money and put the rest in savings.
He purchased his ticket at the Kangaroo Express on National Highway in Thomasville.
Another Triad resident a ...
Apr 8, 2008, 8:48 am - - Lottery News forum
