Tennessee Adds Four New Scratch Games
The Tennessee Lottery will add more instant games to its repertoire this weekend, giving players four more choices of games to play and more ways to win, officials said.The colorful tickets, which contain fields of play that players must scratch in order to win, will offer prizes ranging from a free ticket to $1 million. Due to the tremendous amount of interest during our first 10 days, we're answering the demands of retailers and players by introducing four new games a few days ahead of sched ...
Jan 30, 2004, 2:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
Scratch-offs bring big cash to states
Scratch-off lottery tickets may not produce the drama associated with high-jackpot games like Powerball or Mega Millions, but to most state lotteries they bring in something just as important: money.Lotteries across the country typically make more from scratch-off tickets than either multistate or state online games - the pingpong ball drawings of numbers that offer the larger prizes, according to several lottery officials. In most states across the country they sell far more instant tickets tha ...
Jan 20, 2004, 6:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Massachusetts man wins $1M lottery prize
Robert F. Brown Jr. doesn't know it yet, but he's got a free Boar's Head sandwich coming.It may not sound like much, but it's all Marissa and Glen Varney can do to say thanks to Brown for buying a winning $1 million lottery ticket in their Wrentham delicatessen, the Sheldonville Store.The Varneys, former chefs who live in Franklin, Mass., will get a $10,000 commission for selling Brown the winning ticket, said Amy Morris, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Lottery. When you tell people you own ...
Jan 9, 2004, 5:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Court scratches man's lottery claim
A Northborough man who tried to cash in on a mistake by the state Lottery Commission to collect a $4 million cash prize for a winning scratch ticket had his claim thrown out yesterday by the state Appeals Court.In 1996, Robert Jacobs purchased a winning instant lottery ticket at the Route 9 Beer and Wine store in Southborough.Although the winning ticket was worth only $10 on its face, Jacobs claimed he was entitled to a $4 million prize because of a mistake in advertising that accompanied the ...
Jan 9, 2004, 5:10 am - - Lottery News forum
First Tennessee Games Revealed
Tennessee lottery players may have a chance at $1 million in prize money even before the Ping-Pong balls start popping up for the state's big money drawings this spring.Yesterday lottery President and Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Paul unveiled Tennessee Millionaire along with three other scratch-off ticket games that will go on sale in February, officially launching the drive for funding college scholarships through lottery sales.''At about 10:30 p.m. last night, we printed our first lottery ...
Dec 30, 2003, 5:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery Drawing to Name Five Finalists For $2,000,000
Five lucky Michigan Lottery players will be one step closer to becoming an instant multi-millionaire on Friday, January 9, 2004. That is when the Michigan Lottery will be conducting a drawing to select five finalists who will participate in a grand-prize drawing for the $2,000,000 Fortune instant game.The $2,000,000 Fortune game is different from most other Michigan Lottery instant games because the $2,000,000 top prize will be awarded through a drawing. Winners of $1,000 prizes in the $2, ...
Dec 24, 2003, 6:55 am - - Lottery News forum
Struggling family wins $77,777 jackpot
Patricia Fields' father always told her that good things come to those who wait, and that if she was thankful for a little, one day she would have a lot.The 48-year-old Woodstock resident was able to understand the true meaning of those words this month.Fields went to a local 7-Eleven to buy her usual lottery ticket. She said she just played for fun, only purchasing the occasional ticket when she could.She never expected to win anything, and if she did, it was a few bucks here and there. But thi ...
Dec 22, 2003, 6:03 am - - Lottery News forum
Woman accused of stealing lottery tickets bound over for trial
An Wisconsin woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of scratch-off lottery tickets when she worked at Denny's Super Valu in Algoma has been bound over for trial.Mary Jo (Jody) DeNamur, 44, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Thursday in Kewaunee County Circuit Court. She is charged with five felony theft counts and one misdemeanor charge.DeNamur's attorney, Jeffrey Jazgar, said his client agreed to waive the hearing in exchange for a preliminary plea offer from the district a ...
Dec 8, 2003, 4:37 am - - Lottery News forum
$4 million winner lays low after jackpot
Luck runs in the Davis family, but the way its Lottery winners keep quiet, you probably wouldn't know it.Edward Davis of Ashland, Massachusetts has been lying low since hitting a $4 million Lottery jackpot Friday, but he bought a round of drinks for everyone at the American Legion James O. Carey Post No. 77, where he scored his winning ticket. I've been a nervous wreck. I haven't slept in three days, Davis said.Davis, who is wary of media interviews, said his brother was a $2 million winner fiv ...
Dec 2, 2003, 4:34 am - - Lottery News forum
Passing through, worker hits lottery for $100,000 at mall
With the holidays around the corner, everyone is looking for a little extra cash.One man from Hershey found it at a lottery dealer at the Schuylkill Mall on Oct. 3 and collected his winnings Thursday.David A. Irwin was making his final delivery of the day for Hess Trucking to the Dollar General at the mall last month when he decided to grab a bite to eat.I was headed for the Italian restaurant in the mall, and as I was walking by the lottery dealer, I remembered that I had some winning instant t ...
Nov 19, 2003, 4:48 am - - Lottery News forum
