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Montana Lottery celebrates 25 years of jackpot dreamsNews Story
The Montana Lottery celebrated its 25th anniversary late last month with parties at retail locations around the state and knowledge that it was on a roll. We had a successful first 24 years, said Montana Lottery Director Angela Wong, who's been in the role 18 months. And we just completed a record fiscal year, with sales of more than $50 million for the first time and weekly sales exceeding $1 million for an unprecedented 19 weeks. Fiscal year 2012 ended June 30, and preliminary data ind
Jul 23, 2012, 8:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

Montana Lottery celebrates 35th anniversaryNews Story
The Montana Lottery has generated $302 million to benefit the State of Montana since its inception in 1987, paying out more than $774 million in prizes to winners. On average, the Lottery has paid out $62,369 every single day to winners. But the Montana Lottery almost never happened. The idea of starting a lottery in Montana was the brain child of longtime Butte state Rep. Bob Pavlovich. Pavlovich and Butte Sen. Lawrence Stimatz sponsored a bill in the 1985 Montana Legislature to cre
Jul 5, 2022, 12:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Montana store sells $3.68M Hot Lotto ticketNews Story
Horseshoe? Check.Four-leaf clover? Check.Rabbit's foot? Got it.Now it's time to go to the Kwik Way convenience store at 1219 Main St. in the Heights to buy your lottery tickets.Why? Because the store sold a $110,000 Montana Cash jackpot winner Saturday, then turned around and sold a $3.68 million Hot Lotto winner on Wednesday.Jo Berg, a spokesman for Montana Lottery in Helena, said a Montana store never has sold winning jackpot tickets on consecutive drawings.Who won? I had a phone call this mor
Oct 10, 2003, 5:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Montana Lottery draws annual Montana Millionaire raffle winning numbersNews Story
The Montana Millionaire winning numbers were drawn on Friday, and the grand-prize-winning ticket worth $1 million was sold in Butte. The million-dollar ticket number is 024279. There were also three tickets worth $100,000 each; one was sold in Butte, and two were sold in Great Falls. The winning numbers are 023452, 083597, and 147877. There were five $10,000 tickets sold; two were sold in Billings, and one each was sold in Glasgow, Laurel, and Hamilton. The complete list of winning n
Dec 30, 2017, 9:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Retired snow plow driver wins Montana Millionaire raffleNews Story
Jack Barisich, an 86-year-old retired snow plow driver with the Montana Department of Transportation living in Winnett, Montana, has claimed the grand prize in the Montana Millionaire lottery drawing. A press release from the Montana Lottery says that Barisich got the winning ticket as a gift from Stacie Schissler of Great Falls, a relative of his son's. Schissler bought the ticket at the Pit Stop in Black Eagle. She told Lottery officials that it's not her usual place to buy tickets, but
Jan 21, 2016, 5:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

California man asks clerk to choose a lottery game for him, ends up picking out a ticket worth $10MReply
Selling 390k times more tickets than Montana or Vermont might play into that theory.
Oct 21, 2023, 10:12 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Montana woman wins lottery twice in one dayReply
Montana truly is a beautiful state.
Jul 7, 2018, 7:33 pm - Soledad - Lottery News

Multi-state Wild Card 2 game ending in FebruaryReply
It's a horrible decision to get rid of Wild Card and I will be going to Oregon to buy tickets for MegaBucks and Montana for Montana Cash.
Jan 19, 2016, 6:27 pm - ThatScaryChick - Lottery News

Montana Lottery celebrates 25 years of jackpot dreamsReply
Congratulations Montana on 25 year.......
Jul 23, 2012, 8:51 am - dallascowboyfan - Lottery News

Montana Lottery celebrates 25th anniversaryReply
Congrats Montana, Happy Birthday Kimberly!
Jun 26, 2012, 8:38 pm - sully16 - Lottery News