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Connecticut lottery bills failNews Story
Would have added online sales, removed ticket expiration Connecticut Lottery players won't get to enjoy buying tickets online or without expiration dates anytime soon. The legislature's Public Safety and Security Committee declined to vote on the proposals by its deadline Tuesday, after hearing opposition from lottery officials, convenience store owners and gambling addiction experts. There just wasn't support for these going forward, said state Sen. Timothy Larson, D-East Hartford, co
Mar 19, 2016, 8:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$970 MILLION: Mega lottery jackpot set for FridayNews Story
3rd largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen Cash value is three-quarters of a billion dollars By Todd Northrop The most commonly-heard phrase this week just might be, Did you get Mega Millions tickets? That's because nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing Tuesday night, sending the Friday jackpot to heights only seen once before in the game's history. By Friday, the game is likely to sport a jackpot of greater than $1 billion. Friday's Mega Millions j
Jan 20, 2021, 7:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

$750 MILLION: Second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in history to be drawn FridayNews Story
Cash value worth more than a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop After 34 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of three-quarters of a billion dollars that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. When nobody won Tuesday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $750 million the largest since a $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from an Oct. 2018 drawing was cl
Jan 13, 2021, 8:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery raking in record profitsNews Story
As annual sales approach $1.2 billion, players probably will see even more games Despite the recession, one Tennessee financial institution is having a banner year. The Tennessee Education Lottery is raking in record profits selling nearly $1.2 billion in scratch-off tickets, nightly drawings, and multi-state mega-jackpot games in its latest fiscal year. While 17 other states' lotteries also hit all-time highs, the 7-year-old Tennessee lottery is growing faster than most, outpacing nati
Oct 9, 2011, 2:58 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Mega Millions jackpot now the eighth-largest in historyNews Story
Powerball jackpot simultaneously offers massive wealth By Todd Northrop For the eighth time in history a lottery jackpot has grown to more than a billion dollars. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Tuesday jackpot estimated at $1.1 billion with a cash value of $525.8 million. Based on past multi-state lottery jackpots, that estimate may get a lot bigger by the time the drawing kicks off Tuesday n
Mar 23, 2024, 8:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

Coronavirus impacting North Carolina lottery salesReply
Good point EdG1955 I wish they would fix the problem the stand alone lottery machines have here now .. you cannot play a combo , if they are running a draw say like keno or pb mm etc the stand alones will stop and not run all your tickets . Players here have encouraged taking all interaction with the clerk away but yet after about 5 yrs of machines placed they cannot get them to do everything that the clerk does. About two years ago we were told that every store would have stand alones and that
Apr 17, 2020, 7:49 pm - partlycloudy07 - Lottery News

Lottery industry facing new threat in 'skill' gamesReply
It started with the PA Lottery blaming skill games and lack of PB and MM must play jackpots and apparently now spread to other state lotteries. Drew Svitko, executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery, blames the anticipated less profitable year that the lottery is having to the proliferation of games of skill and lack of big Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots. As for placing blame it's not the state legislators that decided lottery players need two multi-million jackpot $2 a
Feb 21, 2020, 4:52 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

US lottery operators worry as fewer millennials line up to playReply
Oh, IDK. Times are changing and eventually the people who live online will be the ones making the decisions. The lottery will keep seeing a decline in sales until eventually someone will present a cost benefit analysis and things will progress from there. The young adults of today are both heavily reliant on, and accepting of, online services and technological advances. Attracting their dollars will require changes in how lottery games can be played. Online sales is the next logical step if
Feb 13, 2017, 7:09 pm - Teddi - Lottery News

wclc not offering same services as other regional lottery corps
Hi long time lottery player and first time poster WCLC does not offer online lottery ticket sales .while other corps like Atlantic,British Colombia ,Quebec and Ontario lottery corps. do on the two NATIONAL games 6/49 and lotto max You would think that since they are NATIONAL lotteries that everyone in the country would have the same opportunity to buy tickets online up to one minute before lottery cut off as the other regions are allotted.also those buying lotto max online in Quebec can also
Apr 6, 2015, 10:14 pm - ceasar1313 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Convenience stores worried about online lottery planReply
Although I'm in Florida until April I'm a resident of Illinois as I live in Chicago. You will not be able to purchase Illinois tickets even if you live one block outside of the state, bank on it. My friend who also lives in Chicago has a place in Las Vegas which now allows for sportsbooks to take bets over the phone and internet to the local hotels and he's not even able to place bets when he's out of state. They have the software to prevent this as it would be considered intrastate gambling whi
Feb 19, 2012, 7:06 am - WWWBUKTN - Lottery News