Vermont adds multi-state Hot Lotto game
The Vermont lottery is 31 years old this year. Lottery revenues after expenses have grown substantially since its early days. But right now the recession is cutting into those revenues.
Back in 1978 the Vermont lottery generated just $1.7 million. That number had grown to $102 million as of last year. But like everything else, lottery revenues are down this year.
At The Middle Road Market in Milton, the customers are well familiar with the lottery games. The owners, state representative Ro ...
Jul 9, 2009, 9:20 am - - Lottery News forum
N.M. man takes $1 million winning lottery ticket in stride
When Vancouver resident Sally Tallmadge read the winning numbers for Washington state's lottery last month in her local newspaper, what she saw made her cry.
She had won half-a-million dollars.
Upon learning the good news, she broke out in tears and screams of joy.
Donna Galloway of Denver, had a similar tearful response, when she learned she had won $200,000 in the Powerball drawing in March.
But as far as anyone can tell, when local resident Edward Boyd won $1 million, he showed ...
Aug 9, 2007, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Winning Hot Lotto ticket sold in New Mexico
New Mexico Lottery officials say one of two winning tickets for Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing was sold in New Mexico.
The other ticket was sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $1.9 million jackpot.
The New Mexico winning ticket is the first Hot Lotto jackpot winner for the state since the game first went on sale there in November, 2006.
The New Mexico Lottery also offers Hot Lotto's better-known sibling, Powerball. Hot Lotto is played in nine other states.
It's been dubbed th ...
Aug 6, 2007, 9:07 am - - Lottery News forum
Kansas woman wins $12.9 million Hot Lotto jackpot
When Lori Boyle stopped Wednesday to get gas and check on a lottery ticket, she had no idea she would walk out of the store a multimillionaire.
The 42-year-old mother of two daughters, ages 19 and 13, had bought the Hot Lotto ticket July 4 in her hometown of Independence, but had kept the ticket in her purse without realizing the $12.9 million jackpot had been hit in Kansas.
I'm too busy to watch television much and I usually only look at the newspaper to see who died and who had a baby, ...
Jul 11, 2007, 9:17 pm - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma Lottery to add Hot Lotto, TV show
The Oklahoma Lottery plans to start a television game show and offer an additional multi-state game in hopes of improving lower-than-expected revenues.
The new television game show would be filmed in Oklahoma City and begin airing in October. Next year, Oklahoma would join ten other states in offering the Hot Lotto game, which features a minimum jackpot of $1 million.
Lottery Commission Executive Director Jim Scroggins says he hopes the additions will help generate excitement for the lotte ...
Jun 27, 2007, 7:54 am - - Lottery News forum
Hot Lotto coming to New Mexico
Lottery players in New Mexico will soon have a hot new way to win a cool million when tickets for Hot Lotto go on sale Sunday, November 12.
The first drawing to include New Mexico will be held on November 15.
Hot Lotto will be a nice complement to our current games, filling the niche between Roadrunner Cash and Powerball, said Lottery CEO Tom Romero. New Mexico now has the option of playing for a huge jackpot (Powerball) with higher odds of winning, or a smaller jackpot (Hot Lotto) that ...
Nov 7, 2006, 3:03 pm - - Lottery News forum
Montana couple claims lottery prize
A Seeley Lake, Montana, couple has claimed a Montana Cash prize from the July 1st drawing.
Montana Lottery officials say Walter and Christine Jewett won $20,000. The couple bought their winning ticket at Wold's Valley Market in Seeley Lake.
A Great Falls couple also hit it big.
Terry and Bruce Bieber claimed a $10,000 Hot Lotto prize on a ticket they bought for the June 17th drawing.
They bought the ticket at an Albertsons store in Great Falls. The Biebers are building a new home, an ...
Jul 7, 2006, 8:15 am - - Lottery News forum
Kansas Lottery adds 'Hot Lotto' game
Mini Powerball is coming to Kansas.
Sales for the multi-state Hot Lotto numbers game began Sunday for Wednesday's first biweekly drawing that will include the Sunflower State.
Like Powerball, winning Hot Lotto numbers are selected and announced every Wednesday and Saturday.
Hot Lotto jackpots are smaller than those offered by Powerball, but players have better odds of winning. The odds are 1 in 16 of getting any winning Hot Lotto ticket for prizes that range from $2 to the minimum $ ...
Mar 14, 2006, 8:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Man wins citizenship, lottery in same day
Moses Bittok became a U.S. citizen and a millionaire last week, all in one day.Bittok, 40, a native of Kenya, came to the United States in 1989. He became a citizen Friday morning during a naturalization ceremony in Des Moines.That night, he discovered he had won a $1.89 million jackpot in the multistate Hot Lotto game. I guess only in America, Bittok joked earlier this week at the Iowa Lottery headquarters. He was accompanied by his wife, Leonida, and their 4-year-old daughter, Mindy.Bittok ha ...
Sep 29, 2005, 6:25 am - - Lottery News forum
W.V. woman claims $1.75 million Hot Lotto jackpot
Like most people holding a winning lottery ticket worth more than $1 million, Diane Ellis checked her numbers over and over again.Twenty-five times, to be exact.A bookkeeper for a Charleston realty company, Ellis, 55, came forward Tuesday as the state's latest West Virginia Lottery jackpot winner.The South Charleston resident stood nervously alongside Gov. Joe Manchin as she faced the media Tuesday at the Charleston headquarters of the state Lottery Commission. I'm very happy ... very excited, ...
Aug 3, 2005, 8:45 am - - Lottery News forum
