AMAZING: Minnesota man wins back-to-back lottery jackpots
A Northstar Cash ticket that Raymond Snouffer Jr. purchased for the Feb. 10 drawing matched all five winning numbers drawn (11-14-23-26-31) to win the $25,000 jackpot.
The next day he did it again. A ticket that he purchased for the Feb. 11 Northstar Cash drawing matched all five winning numbers drawn (3-7-11-19-28) to win another $25,000 jackpot!
This unbelievable feat has never been done in Minnesota on any jackpot game, and the odds of it happening are virtually incalculable. But what i ...
Feb 15, 2007, 11:55 am - - Lottery News forum
Time running out for $1.4 million lottery ticket
There may be millionaires among us, but their luck has an expiration date.
A Minnesota Lottery Gopher 5 ticket worth $1,489,175 is out there somewhere, and the holder has only a few days left to claim the prize.
Handing out checks is my favorite part of the job, said Clint Harris, executive director of the Minnesota State Lottery. I'd like to do that one more time before the 17th.
That's when the ticket with the winning numbers 4-12-13-24-35 will expire, one year after it was drawn ...
Jan 10, 2007, 3:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
Minnesota Lottery Millionaire Raffle Results
The Minnesota Lottery selected the winning numbers Monday for its special Millionaire Raffle drawing.
Minnesota Millionaire Raffle is the first Raffle game from the Minnesota State Lottery.
Players purchased tickets for $10 each. Tickets went on sale November 1st and sold out before the December 31st deadline.
The full set of winning numbers for Minnesota's Millionaire Raffle are posted at:
http://www.lotterypost.com/mn-lottery-raffle-2007.asp
Lottery officials said that Minneso ...
Jan 2, 2007, 12:09 am - - Lottery News forum
Most state lottery raffle games sold out
Around the United States, Christmastime raffle games have become the hottest ticket of the year, with most of the game tickets selling out well before the drawing date.
The raffle games are loosely modeled after the largest lottery game in the world, Spain's El Gordo, which gives back an unusually large 70% of all proceeds in the form of prizes, and makes many instant millionaires.
Unlike traditional lotto-style games, a fixed number of tickets are sold for raffle games, and the prizes are ...
Dec 30, 2006, 12:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Minnesota lottery player claims Powerball jackpot
Michael Hawes and his fiancee were so tickled their baby boy survived a premature birth that they named him Lucky. On Tuesday, the kid had his own reason to be happy: His old man just won $47 million.
Hawes, 46, said he had no idea he held the winning ticket in the Nov. 1 drawing until Monday afternoon, when he stopped at a Cub Foods supermarket in Bloomington to buy some pop. While he was there, he decided to get some tickets in his wallet scanned.
I brought it to New York and wandered ...
Dec 7, 2006, 10:15 am - - Lottery News forum
Minn. Lottery chief named head of North American association
Executive Director Clint Harris of the Minnesota State Lottery has been elected president of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries.
The 52-member organization is made up of government-sponsored lotteries from the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Harris was selected this month at the NASPL's annual meeting in Chicago. His term runs through October 2007.
Among his goals, Harris cited moving forward with the development of initiatives to standardi ...
Oct 24, 2006, 9:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Minnesota Lottery renews contract with GTECH
GTECH Holdings Corporation today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation, signed a two-year contract extension with the Minnesota State Lottery to commence on February 9, 2011.
The contract extension retains all of GTECH's service offerings and the fixed rate under the current contract. GTECH expects to generate revenues of approximately $20 million to $22 million over the two-year extension term.
This contract extension is evidence of the Minnesota State Lottery's c ...
Jun 29, 2006, 10:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Minnesota couple wins big Gopher 5 lottery prize
After years of playing the lottery, a Witoka, Minnesota, couple hit the jackpot Tuesday.
Bob Allred hit all five numbers in the Gopher 5 lottery and won $1.4 million.
Allred and his wife, Beth, have played the lottery for many, many years.
Bob said usually they play a certain set of numbers, but on Tuesday, while visiting his father at the Sauer Memorial Home off Highway 61, he stopped in the SuperAmerica convenience store and bought five tickets with computer-generated numbers.
Al ...
May 8, 2006, 10:02 am - - Lottery News forum
Illegal deals of Minn. Lottery revealed in court documents
Authorities investigating former Minnesota lottery director George Andersen suspected he was involved in bribery, conspiracy and conflicts of interest, court documents show.Search warrants unsealed Friday lay out the still-open criminal investigation into Andersen's dealings with Media Rare, a public relations firm that had no-bid contracts with the lottery. The warrants are the first public indication that investigators thought Andersen's dealings might have amounted to more than mismanagement. ...
Dec 5, 2005, 9:45 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery scam targets Minnesota residents
The Minnesota State Lottery is warning people of a scam in which someone is sending letters from a group called the Minnesota State Lotto Sunset Minnesota Lotto.The letters say the recipient has won a drawing but must send money to claim the prize.The letters, which include a phony check for $4,100, say the recipient has won $80,000 in a second-chance lottery drawing. The letter instructs the recipient to send $4,000 to claim the rest of their prize.The Minnesota Attorney General's Office and ...
Sep 9, 2005, 3:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
