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UK National Lottery to increase Lotto game prizesNews Story
Raffle side game will be dropped United Kingdom National Lottery operator Camelot has announced it will be increasing the prize amounts for its Lotto game. From November, players who match five or more balls plus the bonus ball will win a fixed 1 million (US$1.28 million). Five balls will win at least 1,750 and four 140, both increases from their current estimated values, and three balls will net 30, up from 25 now. This is up from an estimated 50,000 which is currently based on sale
Sep 4, 2018, 8:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Germany Lottery draw glitch caused announcement of wrong numbersNews Story
German broadcaster ZDF gave Lotto ticket holders a moment of false hope on Wednesday evening, after a glitch with the ball machine meant presenters read out the wrong numbers. At 6:50pm, 2.33 million people turned on their TVs to see if they'd won this week's lottery jackpot. But what presenters in the ZDF studio had not noticed was that that two balls, 46 and 47, failed to roll into the see-through Lotto drum. This meant that the first set of numbers 3,8,11,26,32,40 and 9 were void. The a
Apr 4, 2013, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

29 co-workers share $1 million Powerball prizeNews Story
GOOD WILL: Group votes to include absent pool members For at least the past five years, a group of information technology employees at Louisville's Humana headquarters have pitched in a few bucks every week to buy Powerball tickets. A retailer is located in the office tower next door to their building. The most they'd ever won was $16 until Wednesday night of last week, when the group matched all five white balls but not the Powerball to win $1 million. The excitement started Thursday afte
Feb 12, 2013, 4:25 pm - Todd - Lottery News

2nd Powerball winner from Rhode Island announcedReply
She did form a Trust. The article said: Last set up a trust named the Ohana Trust to formally claim the ticket She asle sent her lawyer. The article said: but it fell to her attorney to pose alongside the oversized lottery check. Kathleen Last of Smithfield, R.I., had the winning ticket in the March 7 drawing for the $60 million Powerball prize, state lottery officials said. She elected to take her winnings in a $37 million lump sum. Last's attorney represented her at Tuesday's officia
Apr 5, 2012, 9:41 am - Factorem - Lottery News

CT Lottery partners with Giants for new scratch gameNews Story
The New York Giants are now in the lottery business. Monday the team announced a partnership with the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to launch a Giants-branded scratch-off ticket game later this month. License agreements between lotteries and NFL teams became possible after a vote by league owners at their May meetings. It's just one of the new ways NFL owners have found to enhance their bottom line in these tough financial times. The new lottery game is also expected to add $1 million
Aug 4, 2009, 11:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery unveils Redskins scratch ticketsNews Story
The Virginia Lottery and the Washington Redskins unveiled a new $50,000,000 Redskins Mania scratch ticket that will go on sale in August, in time for the start of the 2009 football season. This is one of the first to be launched by a state lottery and an NFL team, according to a news release from the Virginia Lottery, taking advantage of a new NFL rule that allows teams to sign licensing deals with state-sponsored lotteries. The Redskins went all out for the announcement, displaying their
Jun 10, 2009, 7:28 pm - Todd - Lottery News

LOTTERY POST ANNOUNCES LOTTERY PRIZE PAYOUT RESULTSNews Story
Free access to entire past year of lottery data also announced Lottery Post, the world's largest community of lottery players and home of the Internet's most popular lottery results service, announced today the launch of its latest industry-leading innovation: current and past lottery prize payout results for all of the hundreds of lottery games shown at the Lottery Post Web site, on both computers and smartphones, such as iPhone and Android. Although the 'winning numbers' portion of lotte
Oct 18, 2011, 2:30 am - Todd - Lottery News