Mass. Lottery reports record profits of $1 billion

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Bleudog101 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:15:27 GMT

Thanks for posting this Todd. Gotta love my home state lottery, but Kentucky isn't all that bad with their lottery either. Letting my PB MM Season Tickets lapse after 18 AUG 17; they haven't done a thing all year...but maybe not too late. L4L has done OK and nothing on MegaBucks Doubler but renewed both anyway.

Any LP members notice something for the last three Megamillions jackpot amounts? They were all palindromes

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music* — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:14:18 GMT

I will take a guess at one reason that there are no online sales in Massachusetts and that is anyone could play. Children, gambling addicts, etc...

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lucky6025 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:08:53 GMT

so where does the 1,035,000,000.00 profit go funny how that was excluded from the article and even then state still complaining want more play from its players. Nothing like greed.

Mass. Lottery reports record profits of $1 billion

Lottery Post — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:09:07 GMT

Although lottery sales in Massachusetts dipped 2.7 percent to $5.093 billion, the amount of money flowing to the state's cities and towns reached record heights, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission.

Net profit, which is distributed to the state's cities and towns, was up 4.6 percent to $1.035 billion the commission's first net profit over $1 billion in its 45-year history.

This is a proud moment for the Lottery, said state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg. During uncertain t... [ More ]