Quick Links   You last visited January 16, 2021, 5:53 am All times shown are Eastern Time (GMT-5:00) | New games send lottery sales soaring Tennessee Lottery: New games send lottery sales soaringTennessee lottery officials say sales are surging because of two new games: Mega Millions and Millionaire Jumbo Bucks. Ticket sales last week were the third highest, $30.8 million, since the lottery began more than six years ago. Mega Millions is the state's second mega-jackpot game. Millionaire Jumbo Bucks is an instant-ticket game with top prizes of $1 million. After five days of sales, "Millionaire Jumbo Bucks" players had won more than $3.5 million in prizes. Last week's sales were surpassed only twice since startup: During the week of Jan. 20-26, 2004, total sales were $41.3 million and during the week of Feb. 12-18, 2006, total sales were $33.6 million. AP
United States Member #15143 May 10, 2005 454 Posts Offline | Both games not computerized?? Tennessee take note, would you like to set a new record rather than 3rd place?? | | |
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Way back up in them dadgum hills, son! United States Member #73902 April 28, 2009 14903 Posts Offline | Tennessee lottery officials say sales are surging because of two new games: Mega Millions and Millionaire Jumbo Bucks. Ticket sales last week were the third highest, $30.8 million, since the lottery began more than six years ago. Mega Millions is the state's second mega-jackpot game. Millionaire Jumbo Bucks is an instant-ticket game with top prizes of $1 million. After five days of sales, "Millionaire Jumbo Bucks" players had won more than $3.5 million in prizes. Last week's sales were surpassed only twice since startup: During the week of Jan. 20-26, 2004, total sales were $41.3 million and during the week of Feb. 12-18, 2006, total sales were $33.6 million. Got one of them Millionaire Jumbo Bucks tickets tonight, won $30 on it. Got 5 lines QP on MM with the MP for $10 and put the $20 back in my pocket. Didn't even know about the new scratcher til I read this article today. . "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" --Edmund Burke | | |
United States Member #71118 February 19, 2009 1224 Posts Offline | Blah Blah Blah,how long do you think that will last. | | |
Tennessee United States Member #24911 October 29, 2005 94 Posts Offline | Both games not computerized?? Tennessee take note, would you like to set a new record rather than 3rd place?? Very good point wizeguy. That is precisely why I quit playing the other games in { TN} that are computer draw games and will only play PB MM and Scrach off. NO Cash 3 , 4 or Pick 5 or LOTTO PLUS  Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery  | | |
New Member New York United States Member #86947 February 13, 2010 2 Posts Offline | Lottery sales may be up because of the addition of new games in one state, if its citizens were crossing state lines to play a multistate game. And perhaps there is some unmet demand in Tenn. However, I doubt that the spread of the multistate games across the country will ultimately increase lottery sales on the whole. People have gambling budgets, which track pretty well with the economy. Thus, the economy being in recession, most studies show that gambling sales are down correspondingly. | | |
Morristown, TN United States Member #20592 August 21, 2005 492 Posts Offline | when the new wears off sales will fall again.. people need to boycott the lottery in tennessee unril they bring the balls back,, quit playing the computerized games.. there is little cance of winning that is why the payouts are so low...the computer always picks a number no one is playing to keep payouts low..rebecca hargrove has ruined a good lottery..she neeeds to go and so does the computerized draws....quit throwing your money away..wake up | | |
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New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 26009 Posts Online | Lottery sales may be up because of the addition of new games in one state, if its citizens were crossing state lines to play a multistate game. And perhaps there is some unmet demand in Tenn. However, I doubt that the spread of the multistate games across the country will ultimately increase lottery sales on the whole. People have gambling budgets, which track pretty well with the economy. Thus, the economy being in recession, most studies show that gambling sales are down correspondingly. I think it WILL increase sales because there are now 4 drawings a week in each state, instead of 2. Many people will play all 4, instead of previously just playing 2. Some "cannibalism" will occur, as people shift dollars from one game to another, but overall sales will go up. | | |
fayetteville tn United States Member #68981 January 3, 2009 1844 Posts Offline | when the new wears off sales will fall again.. people need to boycott the lottery in tennessee unril they bring the balls back,, quit playing the computerized games.. there is little cance of winning that is why the payouts are so low...the computer always picks a number no one is playing to keep payouts low..rebecca hargrove has ruined a good lottery..she neeeds to go and so does the computerized draws....quit throwing your money away..wake up You are right tnwinner. They need to go back to the ball drawings. That will never happen untill Rebecca leaves. The TN lottery will be better off without her. She has ruined the scratchoffs. Just 4 1.000,000 dollar prizes on the millionaire jumbo bucks. GA has 10. All the new scratchers they don't put many prizes on them anymore. They are not worth playing. Their bread and butter game the 2 dollar jumbo bucks sucks. Last time they reloaded them they didn't put but 26 50,000 dollar prizes on them. They use to put 40 or 50. They have over 4000 retailers. Each retailer should be allowed one 500 dollar winner on each game. I bought 10 5 dollar giant jumbo bucks yesterday not one winner. Player cinfidence 0. Remember this she is chair person for the powerball. She will ruin it before it is over. I could go on and on. If you are reading this Rebecca no one wants you at the TN lottery. Why don't you go. | | |
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Tennessee United States Member #7853 October 15, 2004 11350 Posts Offline | You are right tnwinner. They need to go back to the ball drawings. That will never happen untill Rebecca leaves. The TN lottery will be better off without her. She has ruined the scratchoffs. Just 4 1.000,000 dollar prizes on the millionaire jumbo bucks. GA has 10. All the new scratchers they don't put many prizes on them anymore. They are not worth playing. Their bread and butter game the 2 dollar jumbo bucks sucks. Last time they reloaded them they didn't put but 26 50,000 dollar prizes on them. They use to put 40 or 50. They have over 4000 retailers. Each retailer should be allowed one 500 dollar winner on each game. I bought 10 5 dollar giant jumbo bucks yesterday not one winner. Player cinfidence 0. Remember this she is chair person for the powerball. She will ruin it before it is over. I could go on and on. If you are reading this Rebecca no one wants you at the TN lottery. Why don't you go. back when the tennessee lottery first started it was one of the best lotteries at the time.back then i was hitting pick 3 numbers five or ten times a ticket and winning huge money.hit the pick 4 a few times.used to win most of my money back on scratch offs.very fair and things were run pretty smooth back then.until the summer of 2007.i'd just hit a huge pick 4 in february of '07 which enabled me to move where i live now.after that i sort of got busy and wasn't playing lottery much and i got on here one day and saw the headline "tennessee to switch to computerized draws'.i was heartbroken because i knew then that even the scratchers and everything were about to go downhill.i barely play tennessee any more and haven't won in three years on any drawing because i refuse to play the numbers here.i did like you and bought a huge roll of jumbo bucks recently and didn't win nothing.i think i'll play the mega millions here soon because i've never played it but other than that i won't touch any other game here.i did get excited about arkansas and then of course they started out computerized.ball drawings are the integrity of the states lottery games.the computerized nonsense is doing the players wrong and here in tennessee sales did drop and hell was raised but hargrove held firm that everything was hunky dory.i still love playing so i mainly stick to powerball and mega millions now.luckily the states can't get its hands on those. 
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Stone Mountain*Georgia United States Member #828 November 2, 2002 10491 Posts Offline | At some point the TN gaming commission is going to have to explain to the public about their lack of DOUBLES on their Eve Cash 3 game. Again ! Not that there is anything so unbelievably wrong with going 22 days without a doubles....so far but.... it's getting close to that time ...."Again. " Once you lose your credibility getting caught and being bad.....lying to the public....and using computer draws ....this is going to be a question that comes up in these situations. Check out that Doubles total figure down there for the last 3 months too........ not anywhere near 27% While your at it check out the totals for 6 months as well. 22 days?...... 14% ? Getting more interesting every draw. Number Types: Singles 75 83.3% 239 342 543 580 972 410 836 715 890 682 918 218 915 680 436 907 215 214 295 081 594 723 601 872 046 120 175 456 430 894 074 589 625 867 341 093 263 961 037 162 098 321 193 316 814 425 421 871 920 749 173 768 501 402 241 063 104 945 617 172 501 519 326 824 701 948 907 934 865 329 602 098 365 972 168 Doubles 13 14.4% 100 755 227 090 332 788 440 144 442 737 660 664 665
Triples 22.2% 222 000 
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Massachusetts United States Member #37432 April 14, 2006 2747 Posts Offline | I think people are buying a lot of the new jackpot games because those games are new in their states. Eventually the enthusiasm will die down and the sales will sag then there will be talk of combining the two and create jackpots of half a billion dollars. | | |
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