Tenn. Lottery rakes in millions fast

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pc38017 — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:56:22 GMT

A funny thing about all the scratch offs sold so far in Tennessee...I'm hearing of few winners, not even a handful. Not all of us expect to win on every ticket, of course, but we will soon tire of spending money without so much as news of a big winer. They (the TN lottery commision) needs to realize that West Tennesseans carried the state's lottery vote, especially Shelby county, yet we aren't seeing but one or two winners on tv. This will soon discourage us....

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vincejr — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:15:07 GMT

What I am hearing from people on the VA/TN border is that there are no winners out there to be had. Reports were of people buying large amounts of tickets and getting very few winners back. I don't know about them, but I played $40 worth of scratchers and only won back $4. I asked the clerk if this was typical and she told me that she had not seen many winners in the tickets that were sold at her store. The problem appears to be that, unlike Virginia and several other states, TN did not set up... [ More ]

Tenn. Lottery rakes in millions fast

Lottery Post — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:52:42 GMT

State lottery sets record launch with $10.8MTennessee's lottery took in about $10.8 million on its first day, setting a per-capita sales record for lottery launches with nearly $2 spent for every state resident, officials said. It's a great day and very exciting for us,'' lottery chief Rebecca Paul said Wednesday.Sales as of 10 p.m. Tuesday reached $1.87 for each state resident, surpassing the first-day figure of $1.83 per resident when Georgia started a lottery in 1993. The first day in any lot... [ More ]