Ohio Lottery signs up two NFL teams for branded games
With the signing of partnership agreements with the Ohio Lottery, the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns have become the sixth and seventh National Football League (NFL) teams to sign up to launch a limited number of team-branded lottery scratchcards through their state-sponsored lottery.
Set for launch in late August, the Ohio Lottery will debut $5 Cincinnati Bengals and $5 Cleveland Browns instant games, with a top prize for each game of $100,000.
The games will also offer a wide ar ...
Jul 31, 2009, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
TV station investigates repeating Kentucky Lottery scratch winners
Is it luck or something else?
The Kentucky lottery sells hundreds of millions of dollars in scratch off lottery tickets each year. While it's difficult to hit the big one, people beat the odds time and time again.
WHAS11's investigative reporter Adam Walser traveled the state, trying to discover how some people repeatedly get so lucky.
For thousands of Kentucky residents, playing the lottery is favorite pastime.
Sometimes players win big, but usually, the outcome is not so lucky.
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Jul 29, 2009, 2:56 pm - - Lottery News forum
2-time lottery winner's past questioned
He definitely won the $1,000, but is the $1 million claim a fraud?
The past of a Fall River man who claimed he won the lottery twice in one day is now being called into question. It turns out Phillip Brunelle, formerly known as Phillip Daggett, has been in legal trouble before for making false claims.
Brunelle said he bought a lottery ticket from a convenience store on East Main St. Sunday morning and won $1,000. He said he then went back into the convenience store, plunked down $20 for a ...
Jul 28, 2009, 6:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
Man wins $1,001,000 from 2 scratch tickets
A Massachusetts man won $1,000 and $1 million dollars from two scratch-off lottery tickets on the same day.
Phillip Brunelle, 29, of Fall River, said he was so excited about winning $1,000 on a scratch-off ticket at a convenience store that he decided to return to the store later to buy another $5 Money Mania ticket, WCVB-TV, Boston, reported Monday.
I already won $1,000, so I don't know why I went back down. I guess I'm greedy, Brunelle said.
He said he used his lucky penny to uncover ...
Jul 28, 2009, 8:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Washington Lottery-Seahawks team up on scratch game
Washington's Lottery is rolling out a scratch-off ticket with the Seattle Seahawks, now that the NFL owners have agreed to allow team logos to be used on lottery tickets.
The new Seahawks Winning Play Scratch tickets went on sale Tuesday and will be sold inside Qwest Field during Seahawks home games.
The new Seahawks Scratch ticket gives players another way to support their team throughout the season, said Washington's Lottery Director Christopher Liu said in a statement. In addition, tic ...
Jul 22, 2009, 5:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
Georgians win big in lottery
An Alpharetta salesman, a former HOPE scholarship recipient and a grandmother are some of recent Georgia lottery winners.
Their winnings, ranging from $50,000 to $777,777, total more than $1.6 million.
Alpharetta linen salesman, Ronnie Adams, 63, matched the first five winning numbers in the July 10 Mega Millions drawing, winning $250,000.
He saw the winning numbers in the sports section of a local newspaper and decided to check online.
I called my wife over, and we both were just s ...
Jul 17, 2009, 8:41 am - - Lottery News forum
W. Va. woman wins 9th big lottery prize
Brenda Bailey is still on a roll.
Last week, the 60-year-old South Charleston woman claimed her ninth West Virginia Lottery prize, $7,000 in the Gem 7s instant game. That brings her total winnings since last September to $159,000 from five instant tickets.
Lottery officials say Bailey has claimed a total $165,800 in prizes from instant and online games since 2000.
She's not the only lucky one in the family. Her husband Richard claimed a $6,000 instant game prize in January and a $10,000 ...
Jul 12, 2009, 10:50 am - - Lottery News forum
New Hampshire crushes lottery winners with new 10% tax
Two $1M winners rush to get prizes before taxes skyrocket
Will higher taxes have the wrong effect and reduce revenue to the state?
The day before a massive 10 percent state tax on lottery prizes went into effect in the Granite State, two winners claimed separate $1 million jackpots something never before witnessed by a 20-year veteran of the lottery.
Milford High School teacher John Kasparek, 42, of Brookline, took a lump sum cash payment of $650,000 before taxes after a NH Millionaire' ...
Jul 1, 2009, 8:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
Georgia carpenter wins lottery twice in a week
One week after winning $1,000 in the Georgia Lottery, a 62-year-old carpenter struck it really big.
Earl Fritz took home the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's.
I felt lucky last week, the Augusta resident said. Now I feel a little bit luckier.
He purchased his ticket at Ms. Carolyn's, 2416 Windsor Spring Road, and scratched it. At first, Fritz didn't realize what he had.
I didn't have my glasses on, he said. It looked like a blur.
Fritz's first win came ...
Jun 22, 2009, 9:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
Maryland Lottery teams up with Ravens
Officials hope scratch-off will boost sales
Maryland Lottery officials are gambling that Ravens football fever will bolster ticket sales when a new scratch-off is unveiled later this year, marking one of the first partnerships of its kind in the country.
Under the $810,000 deal with the Ravens approved by the state Board of Public Works on Wednesday, the team's logo will appear on $5 purple scratch-off tickets starting during the preseason in August. Prizes include lifetime season tickets ...
Jun 18, 2009, 9:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
