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
Soldier wins $1 million lottery jackpot, will return to Iraq
Definition of patriot: though he hit the jackpot, sergeant volunteers to return to Iraq for a 3rd tour
After completing two tours in Iraq, Sgt. Wayne Leyde won $1 million from a scratch-and-win lotto ticket on Tuesday.
Now that he's won, Leyde, a 26-year-old member of the Washington National Guard, says he's still going to volunteer to go back to Iraq for a third tour and won't spend any of the money in the meantime.
Leyde was driving near his home in Mead, Washington when he stopped at ...
Feb 29, 2008, 1:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Ontario store employee charged with stealing lottery prizes
New prize redemption rules aimed at reducing theft
A former convenience store employee in North Bay, Ontario, is facing theft and fraud charges for allegedly redeeming two customers' scratch-and-win lottery tickets.
Sgt. Chris Williams of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario's Investigation and Support Bureau says these are the first such charges the unit has laid since its inception Jan. 1.
The unit, comprised of provincial police officers, investigates claims of insider lotter ...
Feb 27, 2008, 10:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Police break up suspected lottery ticket theft ring
In Washington state, police have arrested three people on suspicion of stealing lottery scratch tickets from stores all over King and Snohomish counties, then cashing them in at other stores.
The arrests follow a week-long investigation into the suspected serial lottery ticket thefts by Kirkland police, Bothell police and King County sheriff's detectives.
The investigation began Feb. 7 after Kirkland police responded to a theft of lottery scratch tickets from a Kirkland gas station in the ...
Feb 14, 2008, 6:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.Y. Lottery apologizes for mob ad
The New York state lottery has apologized to Italian-Americans after it aired a series of TV ads that featured Sopranos-esque mob characters.
The ads, for a $3 million scratch off game called Ba Da Bling, featured the characters singing about the game in Brooklyn accents to the tune of Duke Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), the New York Post reported Monday.
Italian-American groups expressed distaste toward the ad, and one group, the Sons of Italy in Ameri ...
Feb 4, 2008, 10:51 pm - - Lottery News forum
Flight attendant wins $1M Georgia Lottery jackpot
A Delta flight attendant can fly the friendly skies as a new millionaire.
Kristen Diloreto of Cumming won $1 million playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club.
The 40-year-old mother of three purchased the winning ticket at The Publix at 3480 Keith Bridge Road in Cumming. She scratched it in the car.
I was thrilled, she said. I took the ticket back to the store manager, and we both looked at each other in disbelief.
Diloreto and her husband, Steve, will ...
Feb 4, 2008, 10:33 pm - - Lottery News forum
Nebraska man wins Iowa Lottery's $500,000 second-chance jackpot
A railroad worker from Lincoln, Nebraska collected a $500,000 check Friday from the second chance drawing of the Iowa/Kansas Midwest Millions scratch ticket lottery game.
Fifty-year-old Ralph Kuwamoto says he bought the tickets at a store called Eddy's in Glenwood, Iowa and then mailed them in for the second-chance drawing. Kuwamoto says he didn't think anything about it until a friend called.
He says he was coming home from St. Joseph, Missouri when he got a call from a buddy in Arizona ...
Jan 19, 2008, 11:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Winner of New York's biggest lottery jackpot sold himself the ticket
A Manhattan deli clerk may have sliced his last salami after selling himself the winning ticket to the biggest scratch-off lottery jackpot in state history.
Waleed Alsaidi, 22, will take home $10,000 per week for the rest of his life about $6,450 after taxes are withheld after getting lucky in the New York Lottery's Win for Life Spectacular game.
The Yemen native said that he bought the ticket as a present to himself while working the lonely late shift on New Year's Eve at his fa ...
Jan 18, 2008, 7:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
Brothers sharing $1M Georgia Lottery jackpot
With a few scratches, brothers Samoeun and Samoeuth Am have achieved a lofty goal only dreamed about by most Americans.
On Jan. 4, Samoeuth Am drove from his Jacksonville home to the El Cheapo gas station on Ga. 40 in Kingsland to buy some Georgia Lottery tickets. Among them was a Georgia's $500 Million Club ticket with a top prize of $1 million.
Am, who is unemployed, said he scratched off the ticket, which costs $20, near the cash register and stared at the ticket in disbelief.
I kep ...
Jan 16, 2008, 12:20 pm - - Lottery News forum
Worker accused of stealing winning Oregon lottery ticket
An investigation by Oregon State Police Lottery Security Section detectives has led to the arrest of a Springfield man who allegedly stole a winning $50,000 scratch-it ticket from the victim at a Springfield restaurant.
The suspect was arrested when he came to lottery headquarters to claim the $50,000 prize.
Oregon State Police was contacted by the victim, a 37-year old Kooskia, Idaho resident, on December 26th, reporting the theft that day of a winning Oregon Lottery scratch-it ticket. Li ...
Jan 9, 2008, 11:29 am - - Lottery News forum
