Texas Lottery sets new $5.077 billion sales record

Comment #13

rcbbuckeye — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:36:50 GMT

Scratchers are the biggest sellers, as in most states.

There is nothing in the rules that say we have to play 4 draws a day. I play Daily 4 one draw a day when I play, and All or Nothing once a day. I rarely play scratchers.

You're sounding a little dramatic.....

Comment #12

Hit2nite — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:03:09 GMT

Agreed! 4 drawings? I'm sure that Helps? I would stop playing if my state went to 4 draws? Fleecing every dime out of Texas... hummm... BILLIONS

Comment #11

basil19 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:17:46 GMT

oh really, then you need to give that money to all your victims from that horrible storm.

Comment #10

Tamia12 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:33:46 GMT

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Comment #9

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:26:31 GMT

It's not states that are changing the rules. It's MUSL. MM is losing sales to PB.

If a state that has a lottery that wants to keep selling MM tickets, it must adhere to MUSL's rules. And no state is going to abandon MM.

Comment #8

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:23:41 GMT

One of them is from Southlake.

Comment #7

djpowerball1234 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 23:31:04 GMT

And states say that they must raise the price of Mega Millions so they can keep the game....B.S.

All come down to simple greed.. if a person wins the lowest level grand prize, after taxes it would at least be 5 million dollars....that is life changing money for any one in the middle class

Comment #6

mikeintexas — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:10:47 GMT

As you may recall, it was a bi-partisan effort against the lottery. There were Republicans who thought it sinful and Democrats who thought it preyed upon minorities and the poor.

Comment #5

rcbbuckeye — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:30:25 GMT

There are still several politicians in Austin that want to abolish the lottery. They cut the lottery's budget as a means to choke it financially.

Fact is, our pols, just like in Washington, don't really listen to people. They just do what they feel like doing regardless of what the people they are supposed to represent want. But, it's pretty clear that people in Texas like to play the lottery.

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:29:41 GMT

Not too long ago some winner politicians wanted to abolish the Texas lottery. Build a bridge and they will come, institute a lottery and they will play. Whatever saying you want to use it's all the same, they've done a great job with their lottery.

Now for Alabama and Mississippi, though you would never ever be able to top their accomplishment, at least their politicians responded appropriately by putting in a lottery they voted for. A shame your poliiticians ignore the popular vote for... [ More ]

Comment #3

music* — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:31:04 GMT

Congratulations to Gary Grief and the Texas Lottery.

A billion here, a billion there and soon you are talking real money. This is a quote by a politician in Washington D.C.

Comment #2

mikeintexas — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06:06:51 GMT

....an unusually obsessive local lottery critic who makes a living trying to make the lottery look bad.

I would guess that's the same one who tried to make Todd look bad, too.

One might say she not only tried to give Todd grief, but tries to give Grief grief, too.

Comment #1

lejardin — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 02:37:34 GMT

Holy Moly.

Texas Lottery sets new $5.077 billion sales record

Lottery Post — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 02:11:02 GMT

Nets $1.313 billion for Texas public schools and $16.2 million for Texas veterans

Players won more than $3.3 billion in prizes

Even without the benefit of a record-setting jackpot like 2016's $1.6 billion Powerball prize, the Texas Lottery achieved $5.077 billion in sales for fiscal year 2017, breaking the sales record it set just last fiscal year and resulting in a total contribution of $1.334 billion to Texas schools and veterans.

This is the seventh consecutive year that the Texas L... [ More ]