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Statistician cracks secret code behind lottery ticketsReply
I never liked those scratch games with the exposed elements, these extended play games like crossword, bingo and tic-tac-toe. Mainly because it took too snip long to figure out if you won! And that translucent blue covering over the letters was sticky and messy, unlike the dry scratch off for regular scratch games that brushes away. Played them couple of times and then never again. Now with this report, I have one more reason to hate those types of scratch-off games, the higher potential f
Feb 2, 2011, 3:03 pm - Jon D - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorReply
the sentence does not say winning 5x the prize is dependent on having tic-tac-toe. The rules shown on the ticket are only two sentences long, and really shouldn't confuse people. Even if it does, being confused doesn't give you any legal rights you didn't already have. The only thing that might give their case legitimacy would be if that sentence is actually misleading, but the sentence itself is extremely clear: Reveal a 'money bag' symbol in the 5X box, win five times that prize. The only
Dec 17, 2014, 1:51 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery begins todayReply
I put in $20 into several different tickets: $6 into the $1 Tic-Tac-Toe: $1 won $5 into the $1 NC Education Lottery: $7 won $4 into the $2 blackjack: $0 won $5 into the $5 $100000 ticket: $10 won Down $2 not bad...was fun though. Online games soon: May 30th Powerball, numbers game in the fall.
Mar 30, 2006, 1:27 pm - cps10 - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery tries to stave off losses from competitionNews Story
With record-smashing sales for two straight years, these should be heady times for the Kentucky Lottery.Even as lottery officials announced Thursday that a record $193.5 million in proceeds were turned over to the state last fiscal year, there was no time for celebration. Officials are too busy trying to stave off expected losses to Tennessee and its lottery that debuted this year.For years, the Kentucky Lottery reaped a windfall from Tennesseans who crossed the border to play the numbers games,
Aug 13, 2004, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery sale drop-off is less than expectedNews Story
Since the first scratch-off lottery tickets started selling more than a month ago, sales have been declining.That was expected as the initial euphoria with the lottery wore off. Sales volume has dropped to roughly 49% of what it was during the first seven days of the lottery. That usually happens after the first week, Rebecca Paul, Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.'s president and chief executive officer, said of what she had seen with other start-up lotteries.By that measure, then, Tennessee's
Mar 1, 2004, 4:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Human error caused expensive Va. Lottery mistakeReply
Here is what I speculate happened, and this is only speculation: I saw a picture of one of these tickets, it is NOT a scratch-off but a numbers-type game looking like a tic-tac-toe board printed on the ticket. A program was written that was to generate a field of prize slots ranging from nothing to the top prize. Many of them were supposed to be for $2 and a few for $77777, but the variable meant for printing $2 prizes was swapped or assigned to $77777. I am guessing that the only random thin
Oct 23, 2008, 10:56 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News

Clerk's error makes N.J. man a $100,000 winnerNews Story
A Bridgeton, New Jersey, resident has a store clerk's error to thank for his purchase of a scratch-off lottery ticket worth $100,000. Indian Fields Market sold the winning Aces High scratch-off lottery ticket Monday night, store owner Domenic Galle said. The guy really didn't ask for that ticket, Galle said. The clerk gave him that ticket by mistake. He asked for Deuces Wild. The clerk realized her mistake after the customer left the store. She said, 'I gave the man the wrong tick
Nov 18, 2009, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

SC lottery error prompts class-action lawsuitNews Story
It was Christmas Day in South Carolina and plenty of people were feeling lucky. For just $1, they could buy a ticket for Holiday Cash Add-A-Play at their local convenience store. The ticket looked a bit like a tic-tac-toe game: get three Christmas trees in a row on a nine-space grid and you won, maybe 2 or 20 bucks. Get all nine Christmas trees to fill the grid entirely and you won the $500 jackpot. The odds of that happening were 1 in 4,800. But something amazing started happening at exactly
Jun 2, 2018, 9:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery tickets will not be sold in South Carolina for more than 12 hours this weekendNews Story
You're out of luck if you planned on buying Powerball or Pick 3 tickets in South Carolina on Mother's Day morning. Stores will stop selling tickets for computerized lottery games including Mega Millions and Palmetto Cash 5 at 11:45 p.m. Saturday as the state switches to a new contractor's computer system. Exactly when stores will start selling again is unclear, but it will be sometime Sunday afternoon, more than 12 hours after going dark, state lottery Director Hogan Brown said. The lotte
May 10, 2018, 11:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery begins todayNews Story
Less than a year from voter approval to first ticket sales Arkansas has officially become the 42nd state to operate a government lottery the 43rd jurisdiction, counting Washington, D.C. Arkansas Lottery scratch-off tickets are now on sale at nearly 1,500 retailers throughout the state with the proceeds going towards funding college scholarships. Retailers were allowed to begin selling scratch-off lottery tickets just after midnight today, and at least one location saw people lining up t
Sep 28, 2009, 7:14 am - Todd - Lottery News