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Companies battle for Pa. lottery contractNews Story
For one firm, it will be something like winning the Powerball: A state government contract worth more than $800 milion that comes along just once a decade in Pennsylvania. The current contract to provide the gaming system and instant ticket game services that power the Pennsylvania Lottery expires in June 2019. The chance to become the lottery's partner for the next 10 years has the paucity of vendors who do this type of work pulling out all the stops. Two of the major players have hired lobb
Jul 30, 2018, 7:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery to add Powerball online ticket salesReply
The measure also calls for a study on how online lottery sales impact convenience stores and other retailers that sell lottery tickets. About 55% of the Illinois ticket sales are scratch-offs that would have zero effect by online sales so the minimal impact would be on the other games. They can only loosely estimate how many players will play their daily Pick-3, Pick-4, and Little Lotto online. Those games represent about 28% of the ticket sales so it depends on how many players choose to p
May 31, 2012, 9:36 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

Against the odds, KY Lottery returns record amount to stateNews Story
Mega Millions helps power sales; Powerball keeps improving too By Todd Northrop The Kentucky Lottery Corporation (KLC) today announced a record-breaking $214.3 million was returned to the Commonwealth in Fiscal Year 2010, despite lottery sales dropping $38 million or 4.7% during the same period. The $214.3 million surpasses the previous record set last year by $9.9 million or 4.8%. The figure is comprised of $200.7 million from profits for scholarship, grant and higher education program
Aug 2, 2010, 1:09 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Internet lottery game not popular with Kansas playersNews Story
Despite a redesign and humorous new commercials, the Kansas eScratch lottery game is still underwhelming players.The lack of success by the Kansas eScratch lottery game illustrates that lottery players do not want a game to be played on the Internet just for the sake of being an online game.Since May, when the game was relaunched and promoted heavily, sales have been 89 percent higher than last year. But the games have still generated only $260,000 in the last month and a half, a mere drop compa
Jul 8, 2005, 12:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lotteries may gamble on InternetReply
Quote: Originally posted by whodeani on April 22, 2005 I don' see why a state would limit internet ticket sales to state residents. If the idea is to bring more revenue to the state, then why not include everybody? States don't exclude non-residents from attending a state university the only difference is tuition is more for a non-resident. I say have the internet sales open to everyone. If lotteries want to exlcude non-residents from playing the lottery, well then maybe there should be a photo
Apr 22, 2005, 1:02 pm - twisted - Lottery News

Scientific Games Reports First Quarter 2004 ResultsNews Story
Revenues Increased 51%; Net Income Increased 80% to $20 million; Earnings per Diluted Share were $0.22Scientific Games Corporation today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. Revenues for the first quarter of 2004 increased 51% to $185.5 million compared to $123.2 million for the first quarter of 2003. Income before the preferred stock dividend was $20.4 million, an increase of 80% over 2003 first quarter income of $11.3 million, and diluted earnings per share increased 6
Apr 22, 2004, 5:17 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Man in Iraq wins $6.4 million Oregon Lottery jackpotNews Story
Ticket bought online; Lottery withholds winner's name for security reasons For the first known time in the Oregon Lottery's 30-year history, the ticket for a winning big jackpot has been sold through an international online lottery ticket sales site and the $6.4 million prize goes to an Iraqi national whose ticket was bought in Bend, and whose name won't be revealed in order to protect him from danger in his homeland, officials confirmed Wednesday. We sell a lot of megabucks tickets, they
Dec 10, 2015, 7:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

One ticket wins $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot, largest prize in the countryReply
I guess you did not understand the article. Texas does offer online lottery ticket sales. It is called Lottery Now. It is an online ticket courier service. The tickets have to be bought at a brick and morter store by a courier than he/she scans the tickets online to the Lottery Now site. This is just like the online courier service snip This post has been automatically changed by the Lottery Post computer system to remove inappropriate content and/or spam.
Apr 27, 2023, 6:24 am - winterhug - Lottery News

Michigan man wins $5.42M lottery jackpot with online purchaseReply
I would think the same thing. We don't have online sales in my state and I have wondered how that works. If someone buys a ticket online, do they get a copy of the actual numbers that were on the ticket? If so, they can be checked. I've gotten the emails and phone calls about the lottery jackpot I've supposedly won and need to pay taxes and fees to receive it. They get hung up on or deleted.
Oct 14, 2022, 6:47 pm - PrisonerSix - Lottery News

$36 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Florida goes unclaimedReply
I think online sales would help a lot. In the cases where people were contacted via email, at least the winner eventually realized it was legitimate. It costs the lottery far less time and effort and money to reach a known person vs advertising for an unclaimed ticket.
Feb 21, 2024, 6:32 am - Artist77 - Lottery News