Iowa Lottery to give away millions from jackpot mystery

Comment #23

LottoGuyBC — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:45:30 GMT

million dollar giveaway sounds good

Comment #22

loonasee2 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:30:21 GMT

Heres a what if ,seeing how the ticket was turned in on time ,shaw comes back w/court papers to collect his prize.

What if the person that finally wins this jackpot from hell,gets there whole life twisted upside ,

What if when they make the doucmentry/action/crime,dramadrama.Steven Seagal bitch slaps Iowa lottery ceo's and shaw.lol

Comment #21

WesternRedDoug — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:18:46 GMT

So for me, the bigger story with this announcement is that the lottery has no hope in finding the actual winner. I guess none of the stolen or missing ticket claims had enough meat to work with. I'm surprised this wrapped up this soon.

Sign your tickets.

Comment #20

wendy67 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:39:19 GMT

Wonder if we will hear of Marges good ole crooked azz do something for ga players. NOT

Comment #19

mcginnin56 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:36:07 GMT

Yeah, Barney Fife would have worked just as well for the comedic angle. I think the more mellow, aged like wine, little slower, little heavier 2010

Seagal, would be probably be more appropriate for portraying the somewhat aging Bogle.

Comment #18

WesternRedDoug — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:29:18 GMT

Funny that you mentioned casting Steven Seagal to play Bogle. When he first started this investigation, people on this board thought of him more like Barney Fife. (Not sure if you were going for 1990 Seagal or 2010 Seagal.

Comment #17

NightStalker — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:23:05 GMT

I'll bet attendance is up this year at the Iowa State Fair.

Comment #16

KY Floyd — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:59:37 GMT

The first two aren't part of the $76 million jackpot. There was a $25 million winner on 6/8.

An average of all lottery games doesn't apply indvidually to every lottery game. For PB, 50% of sales goes to the prize pool for all of the prizes, and at that time 65.0577% of the prize pool was allocated to the jackpot. That means it was actually 32.52885 cents per ticket.

Comment #15

maringoman — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:51:18 GMT

I also used lotto report to add up my numbers and the sales are about $2.6M as I initially claimed

6/04/2011 - $358,285 JP $20M

6/08/2011 - $301,192

6/11/2011 - $325,556

6/15/2011 - $296, 601

6/18/2011 - $337, 527

6/22/2011 - $319,037

6/25/2011 - $365,437

6/29/2011 - $337,867 JP $76M

...About 32 cents of each dollar went to the jackpot... where did you get that one from? for example, NC claims on its website that 58% of the revenues is paid out in prizes. Another... [ More ]

Comment #14

savagegoose — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:22:11 GMT

i think the law states, any left over cash form unclaimed prizes... how did we know that once the cash is held by the GOV there is no left overs.

Comment #13

KY Floyd — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:43:06 GMT

For starters, I think you got the numbrs wrong. According to lottoreport, sales were a hair shy of $2 million. About 32 cents of each dollar went to the jackpot, so that would put Iowa's share at about $635,000.

That's pretty close for what was probably announced as six hundred thousand or about six hundred thousand . It's also a pretty safe bet that their share of the unclaimed hotlotto prize wasn't exactly $1.4 million, and that the total they award in extra prizes won't be $2.000 million.... [ More ]

Comment #12

time*treat — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:53:20 GMT

State Fair gonna be very popular this year.

Comment #11

mcginnin56 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:51:30 GMT

They must have some very smart and greedy politicians

Comment #10

TheRightPrice — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:48:27 GMT

Florida has no law to give money back to players

Comment #9

mcginnin56 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:47:01 GMT

Yeah I agree, it doe's seem like a very excessive amount to be taken out! ($2 million!)

There must be some other explanation? Maybe there is some undeclared skimming going on.

Comment #8

maringoman — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:29:39 GMT

You're right on the expenses but remember these lottery commissions are very efficient. On a revenue of about $2.6M their overheads should not be $2M. I mean most of them claim that for every $1 spent, about .60 cents goes back to the players as prizes. I'm not an expert, just thinking out loud

Comment #7

dallascowboyfan — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:18:51 GMT

Glad the people of Iowa get a second chance.....................

Comment #6

mcginnin56 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:06:35 GMT

I may be wrong, but I believe that every participating state (MUSL), gets a percentage only of the gross lottery ticket sales. Millions need to earmarked

for lottery overhead to run the nationwide machine of printing tickets, advertising, paying lottery officials and employees. So that $2.6 million share for

Iowa may be correct, but then you have to back out those calculated expenses. Just my theory. Anyone out there work for the lottery.

Comment #5

maringoman — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:58:39 GMT

Iowa gets its share of a $77M powerball jackpot that went unclaimed in Georgia of only $600,000?

Using a website that tracks the powerball sales by state I can add up to about $2.6M in powerball sales by the Iowa lottery

leading to the unclaimed $77M jackpot being won. Unless Iowa lottery is engaged in some funny math or some weird rules of dividing

up the unclaimed jp that I am unaware of, I think Iowans are being decieved.

I wonder what Massachusetts lottery plans to do with about

Comment #4

rad242 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:49:56 GMT

Other states should follow suit

Comment #3

mcginnin56 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:48:38 GMT

This whole secret winner nail biter drama needs to be made into a movie. As the NY attorney Crawford Shaw, he should be cast by

(have to dig him up first), Bernie Madoff. The Super Lottery Top Cop bogle should be portrayed by Steven Seagal.

Comment #2

sully16 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:26:37 GMT

Good luck.

Comment #1

mightwin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:06:03 GMT

They have a law that says unclaimed prizes must go back to lottery players as prizes........that makes too much sense. As soon as this story gets bigger I'm sure theres gonna be some politician there wanting to change that......lol

Iowa Lottery to give away millions from jackpot mystery

Lottery Post — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:52:40 GMT

Share of expired Powerball jackpot sold in Georgia also to be given away

A secret winner's loss will be some lucky Iowans' gain.

The Iowa Lottery announced plans Friday to give away $2 million in cash prizes, including a $1 million prize at the Iowa State Fair, with the state's share of a leftover jackpot that went unpaid after a New York lawyer refused to explain how he ended up with the winning ticket.

We're going to see if we can have better luck the second time around, Iowa Lottery... [ More ]