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UK Lottery, by the numbersNews Story
50 facts about the United Kingdom's #1 numbers game 96% of winners said money can buy you happiness. 2009 is the year Camelot's license to run the National Lottery expires. 13,983,816 to one are the odds against winning the jackpot. 2,000 millionaires have been created by the lottery since it began. 19bn has been raised for good causes. 28.7bn has been paid out in cash prizes. 14 millionaires, on average, are created each month. 20.1m is the largest single prize
Dec 11, 2006, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario lottery players advised to be cautiousNews Story
It's not just about whether you win or lose, but how you play the game, especially when that game is the lottery. People buying tickets for Wednesday night's $36 million Lotto 649 draw the fourth largest Canadian jackpot in the lottery's history have been advised to take precautions to avoid being cheated in the wake of reports that retailers may be lying about whether tickets are winners or not. The scandal arose several weeks ago when it was alleged that too many ticket sellers were
Nov 9, 2006, 7:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Washington Lottery to debut new ticket machinesNews Story
Washington lottery players can expect new green tickets July 2, the date the state-run gambling enterprise switches to new machines in its retail outlets. The switch comes at a time the state Lottery is struggling to maintain its share of the state's exploding gambling market. But the change is not expected to boost the state's shrinking share of the $1.7 billion that gamblers lose each year in Washington. The change in ticket stock is tied to the installation of new ticket-dispensing mac
Jun 19, 2006, 2:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Newspaper to decline advertising from N.C. Lottery CommissionReply
Gaming Revenues Fund - Fiscal Year 2005 Economic Development Initiatives Fund $42,432,000 Juvenile Detention Facilities Fund $2,496,000 Correctional Institutions Building Fund $4,992,000 Problem Gambling Grant Fund $80,000 State General Fund $15,409,441 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES FUND Program or ProjectFY 2006 Kansas Department of Commerce Older Kansans Employment Program $239,430 Operating Grant $15,599,339
Mar 28, 2006, 3:38 pm - whitmansm2 - Lottery News

British pro gambler took aim at $25.8M CT Lotto jackpot, buying hundreds of thousands of ticketsNews Story
Lottery officials monitored everything as it happened Good afternoon, Pete. Just letting you know that we have been monitoring the sales of an individual who is spending an enormous amount of money on the lotto game. That's what Mark Walerysiak, the security director at the Connecticut Lottery Corp. (CLC), wrote in an email on Oct. 28 to Peter Hsieh, the gaming division director for the state Department of Consumer Protection (DCP). The email was the beginning of an intriguing yarn ab
Nov 8, 2019, 2:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

MMMM filter Missouri pick 4Reply
Pick 4 Prize Payouts and Chances of Winning (based on a $1 play) Type Of Play To Win, Match Your Numbers to those Drawn In Win If Any Of These Are Drawn Chances 1 In Prize - $1 Play $1 Straight Exact Order 1234 1 in 10,000 $6,000 $1 Box 4-Way (# has 3 same digits) Any Order 3999 1 in 2,500 $1,500 6-Way (# has 2 pair same digits) Any Order 2233 1 in 1,667 $1,000 12-Way (# has 2 same digits) Any Order 3822 1 in 833 $500 24-Way (# has 4 di
Dec 24, 2018, 6:42 pm - MzDuffleBaglady - Pick 4 Forum

The man who won the lottery 14 times (part 2)News Story
Just after 11 PM on February 15, 1992, a lottery ball machine at the Virginia State Lottery HQ spit out 6 winning numbers on live television: 8... 11... 13... 15... 19... 20. In the coming days, officials would find out that one person had secured not only the $27,036,142 jackpot, but 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes collectively worth another $900k. What unfolded next was the strangest, most improbable lottery tale in history one involving thousands of international
Aug 27, 2018, 6:56 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery often pulls plug on high-dollar scratch-off games before all prizes can be wonReply
More than 51 percent of high prize scratch-off game tickets worth more than $1 million have gone unclaimed in the five years since IGT took over. Prior to IGT's takeover of the Hoosier Lottery, 10 percent of high-dollar scratch-off prizes weren't awarded. Wow from 10% to 51%. That's because the company pulled the plug on those games before about half of the tickets could be sold. Indiana lottery officials defended the increased rate of unsold prize-winning tickets, sayin
Apr 6, 2018, 10:00 pm - ckrakowski - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery often pulls plug on high-dollar scratch-off games before all prizes can be wonNews Story
Brittany Mowell and her husband purchase Hoosier Lottery scratch-off tickets a couple of times a week in hopes they'll win big. The Indianapolis woman said she felt cheated out of that dream once she learned the lottery was pulling certain high-dollar scratch-off games off the market before all the big-money prizes could be won and paid out. It felt so unfair she questioned whether such a move was legal. That really ticks me off, Mowell said, and I feel ripped off. Not only is the
Apr 6, 2018, 1:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tracking Daily Pick-4 Friday, August 25, 2017Reply
Notched another win today in the midday game in the state of Maryland. We were looking for root sum numbers (7) (6) to fall and the matching root sum from today s Tracking Daily Pick-4 list was 4-0-1-2. Maryland state players who got a Work Out from me for today s exact draw order sequence number to play in their state game got 0-1-2-4 to play. Using my Magic Wheel each Player would have been able to hit for over thirty thousand dollars playing in state at their local Lottery Retailer, tho
Sep 20, 2017, 5:58 pm - mjwinsmith - Pick 4 Forum