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States pull the plug on Monopoly Millionaires' ClubReply
Monopoly Millionaires' Club actually WAS developed by a private company (SGI/MDI). In fact, most if not all lottery games on the market today are created by the vendor(s). As I discussed in another post, the vendors practically have a monopoly, and the states are so desperate that they are like sheep and will take whatever looks promising. In this case, the market research and feedback that went into MMC development was HIGHLY suspect. But the lotteries went along with it anyway.
Dec 13, 2014, 8:34 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery News

Texas Lottery suspends sales of Monopoly Millionaires' Club gameReply
Boy, back in oct. before the game launched i remember a couple of vendors not knowing what the hell i was referring to and offered me the scratch offs we have here in MD and i had to show them the poster in front of them what i really meant. They still looked at it clueless.
Dec 11, 2014, 10:16 pm - Taurus$ - Lottery News

Wyoming Lottery to begin accepting retailer applicationsReply
I sure would like to know how Wyoming Lottery officials are going to go about vetting vendors.Given that corruption starts once a ticket is handed over to the clerk to verify whether it's a winner or not, what is the process whereby the Officials can swear that this particular vendor will not fall prey to these Shenanigans?
May 14, 2014, 1:37 am - noise-gate - Lottery News

Legislator demands greater scrutiny of Florida LotteryReply
Picker..California lottery Commission has its own Lottery Cops - they arrest vendor's and pull out their equipment if they play fast loose with the rules. The Host of To catch a Predator ( Chris Hanson ) did a ride along with some of the enforcers out here to nail some vendors who had crossed over to the dark side. The lottery out here does not mess around with crooked Vendors, its jail time. They did still do sting operations where they will have the Ca-lottery make a $500.00 scratch off
Apr 2, 2014, 1:10 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

$590M Powerball winner still shops at WalmartReply
People have no idea how big Walmart really is. I was stunned to find out their revenues are about 10 times that of Amazon. Shocking. But they also nickel and dime their vendors but you make it up in sheer volume.
Jun 14, 2013, 8:52 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

Tech industry sets its sights on gamblingReply
After scanning through the 150+page requirements that the Michigan lottery is asking system vendors for its proposed iLottery, seems like they want to do pretty much everything they have now plus new games over the internet/smartphones. That's a lot of electronic transactions taking place with regards to players buying wagers, winnings automatically deposited into players accounts etc. Maybe the technology is there now maybe not. Call me old fashioned I guess, but having a physical ticket seems
Feb 18, 2013, 9:14 pm - mightwin - Lottery News

Proposal to ban welfare recipients from playing lotteryReply
In New Jersey, welfare recipients who win the lottery have to pay back TANF and Section 8 funds and any overpayments from other social welfare programs that were awarded to them... On another note, how are vendors going to [know] the person was on welfare or in bankruptcy?
Jan 26, 2013, 2:43 pm - megan81 - Lottery News

$185 MILLION: Huge Powerball lottery jackpot set for WednesdayReply
Wednesday is my 31st birthday!!! I'm going to buy 31 tickets from 31 vendors. Can you see the headlines?
Nov 11, 2012, 5:43 pm - megan81 - Lottery News

GTECH picked to run Indiana LotteryReply
Hey there Haymaker. Not only are all Kentucky Lottery employees prohibited from buying tickets in Kentucky, but so are members of our board of directors and all employees of lottery-specific vendors that we do business with (like GTECH who provides our draw game system, Scientific Games who prints our scratch-off tickets, etc.) The only caveat is with the Powerball game, and we're allowed to play that but ONLY out of state. Mega Millions does not provide that option.
Oct 10, 2012, 3:35 pm - ChipP 2 - Lottery News

Report: Ill. lottery manager short $100M on profitReply
I've been waiting to see if there's any blowback from Powerball upping their cost from $1 to $2; this may be the first sign of an issue. I know powerball's idea was bigger initial jackpot, quicker to huge jackpots where more people play, more publicity, more money to states vendors ; I'm thinking this might not be the case afterall...
Aug 2, 2012, 6:37 pm - Seattlejohn - Lottery News