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Virginia Lottery retailers escalate boycott, halt ALL lottery ticket sales until further noticeNews Story
Virginians could have a tougher time buying lottery tickets By Kate Northrop Nearly a month after hundreds of Virginia Lottery retailers participated in a temporary boycott of ticket sales to protest the ban of skill games, many of those stores are now refusing to sell tickets altogether. In protest of a recent amendment made to a bill that regulates the operation of skill games in the state, licensed Virginia Lottery retailers have taken last month's ticket sale boycott a step furth
May 11, 2024, 8:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winNews Story
New Jersey based group turned the odds to win in their favor By Kate Northrop Around this time one year ago, the Texas Lottery's Lotto Texas jackpot was bursting at the seams, boasting the game's third-largest prize ever at a mouthwatering $95 million. One New Jersey-based group gamed the odds to win the jackpot. Following a seven-month period without a winner, the Lotto Texas jackpot had ballooned to $95 million for the drawing on April 22, 2023, the game's largest in over 12 years.
Apr 28, 2024, 12:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.09 BILLION: Powerball jackpot is 4th-largest in game historyReply
Can we get 2-3 winners this tine Probability says no. It takes sales of $405 million just to have any number of winners be as likely as a rollover, and at that point the chances of a single winner are about 2.2 times as likely as multiple winners. The last time that happened was in the last two drawings for the PB record back in November 2022. It takes sales of a hair over $734 million for multiple winners to be just as likely as a single winner. That has happened twice, in the last two dra
Apr 3, 2024, 12:55 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.7 billion in combined jackpots, as USA multi-state lottery games peak togetherReply
If it is won tonight, it will be over $1billion once the final prize is determined. Strikes me as unlikely. The decision to post a revised cash value was made based on a 15% increase over the initial sales prediction. Reaching an even billion would have required an increase of 24% over the revision they made sometime on Friday when they had over 2 days of actual sales for predicting the final total. On the worksheet on the TX website the supported jackpot was reported as $982.35 million. MM
Mar 23, 2024, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery retailers refuse to sell tickets to draw attention to skill games amendmentNews Story
Amendment would effectively prohibit most small businesses from having skill games in stores Includes video report By Kate Northrop Hundreds of Virginia Lottery retailers across the state participated in a boycott of ticket sales on Monday to protest an amendment to a bill that regulates skill games. Virginia lottery players may have had difficulty buying tickets Monday, since hundreds of licensed Virginia Lottery retailers halted ticket sales to voice their frustrations with the
Apr 18, 2024, 7:05 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery ticket sold in Illinois wins $560 million Mega Millions jackpotReply
or the lump-sum estimated cash value of $264 million Based on reported sales that seems unlikely to be an accurate estimate. The first worksheet on the TX lottery website reported sales of $43 million and a cash value increase of $17.6 million to $258.4 million. The next worksheet forecast sales about 7% higher, which would fund an increase of $18.8 million, to $259.6. The website that can't be named reports sales of $46.44 million which would make it $259.8 million. This was yet another ja
Jun 6, 2024, 1:57 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Florida: 5/1 - 5/31/2024Reply
FYI: Florida lottery promotion for June 2004. They must really be hurting for revenue if they think this will increase sales.
May 25, 2024, 4:50 pm - Win$500Quick - Pick 3 Forum

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winReply
This might hurt ticket sales if players think a syndicate can swoop in and buy out a large jackpot.
Apr 28, 2024, 2:34 pm - raincrow - Lottery News

$1.33 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in OregonReply
it must have been Oregons time to win it,as it wasn't based on population ticket sales like cal. and n.y..
Apr 10, 2024, 9:49 am - scorpio45 - Lottery News

Lotto JokesReply
Over $807M in Powerball ticket sales in the latest run-up. Cash amount of current jackpot is $272M
Dec 18, 2023, 5:24 pm - Wavepack - Lottery Discussion Forum