N.M. Lottery signs 7-year contract with Intralot
The New Mexico Lottery today awarded a contract for a new computer gaming system to Georgia-based Intralot, ending a competitive bidding process that started more than two and a half years ago.
Over the life of the seven-year contract, the lottery will pay Intralot a base price of 1.50 percent or $18.2 million on projected total net sales of $1.15 billion. Intralot's base price includes ticket sale and validation terminals for 1,100 lottery retailers statewide as well as related peripher ...
Nov 20, 2007, 9:42 am - - Lottery News forum
New Mexico man claims $200,000 prize hours before it would expire
Marguerite Padilla of Farmington wanted to rush to New Mexico Lottery headquarters three hours away in Albuquerque to claim a $200,000 prize. But her husband had other ideas.
Timothy Padilla wanted to go elk hunting first.
Not even a winning Powerball ticket could stop an elk hunting trip, he told lottery officials when the couple claimed the prize Wednesday. We had just enough time to do both things.
Lottery officials warned last week that the $200,000 prize from the Aug. 15 drawin ...
Nov 12, 2007, 12:02 pm - - Lottery News forum
Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and wins
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball
TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers
The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel.
The only thing she changed was her luck.
After the show an ...
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - - 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
N.M. Lottery approves raffle, ends game, and hires new vendor
The New Mexico Lottery's board of directors was busy yesterday, approving a new raffle-style game for later this year, canceling the unique 4 this way 4-digit game, and ending an 11-year relationship with its current equipment and services vendor.
Finishing a two-year process to analyze its business needs, identify revenue growth opportunities and evaluate vendor capabilities, the New Mexico Lottery yesterday selected Intralot to provide a computerized gaming system, communications network ...
Jul 27, 2007, 8:22 pm - - Lottery News forum
Retailers sue N.M. Lottery over scratch-off games
Eastern N.M. businesses say some prize money not being awarded
Eastern New Mexico retailers have accused the New Mexico Lottery of misrepresenting scratch-off games to the public by advertising prizes, then pulling the games before all the money is awarded.
The retailers, in a class-action lawsuit filed in state District Court in Albuquerque last week, allege the lottery has adopted a practice over the past several years of prematurely pulling games statewide while substantial cash prizes ...
Jul 3, 2007, 7:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Fake lottery ticket costs New Mexico man $25,000
A Las Cruces, New Mexico, man was conned out of $25,000 by two men who claimed to have a winning lottery ticket.
The men were selling the winning ticket because they were unable to claim the cash prize as a result of not being in the United States legally.
The 80-year-old victim stated he was approached by the two men Friday, June 8, outside the Wal-Mart on Walton Blvd.
The suspects allegedly talked the victim into withdrawing $25,000 from his bank account in exchange for a lottery ti ...
Jun 13, 2007, 9:46 am - - Lottery News forum
$63M Powerball lottery jackpot claimed by New Mexico man
Updated: May 30, 2007, 7:59 pm
A Los Ojos, New Mexico, man stepped forward today to claim a $62.8 million Powerball jackpot one week after the New Mexico Lottery announced that the winning ticket from the May 23 drawing had been sold in New Mexico.
Felipe Pi a purchased his ticket on Wednesday, May 23, at Giant Sundial #5 in Chama using a Quick Pick method. The numbers on his ticket 03, 11, 24, 36, 38 and the Powerball 06 matched the winning numbers drawn in the multi-state, lotto-styl ...
May 30, 2007, 7:33 pm - - Lottery News forum
$63M Powerball lottery ticket sold in New Mexico
New Mexico has sold its fourth multi-million dollar winning Powerball jackpot ticket.
One winning ticket was sold in New Mexico for tonight's Powerball lottery drawing, according to the New Mexico Lottery Authority. It was the only winning ticket nationwide.
The winning numbers drawn were 3, 11, 24, 36, 38, and the red Powerball was 6.
The prize carries a pre-tax estimated annuitized jackpot of $63 million, and a pre-tax cash value of approximately $29.5 million. The New Mexico winner c ...
May 24, 2007, 7:45 am - - Lottery News forum
