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Inside Sources: Virginia Lottery to Slash StaffNews Story
EXCLUSIVE: Lottery Post reveals the Virginia Lottery's cost-cutting plansMust credit LotteryPost.comAccording to unnamed sources, the Virginia Lottery is planning a series of cost-cutting moves that could send shock waves through its staff and the industry: the Virginia Lottery will be seeking bids to outsource all functions of its operations.The Virginia Lottery is expected to announce requests for bids on its Web site at www.valottery.com. No department has been spared from consideration, in
Jan 13, 2004, 10:24 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Fact SheetNews Story
Here's some interesting facts about tonight's estimated $210 million Powerball jackpot drawing.New Year's Eve Draw Information$210 million jackpot would rank as the 5th largest Powerball jackpot ever.It would also rank as the 7th largest lottery jackpot ever.This is the largest current lottery jackpot in the world.The estimated cash option is $113.9 million.The New Year's Eve draw will be the 16th draw of this jackpot run. The run started with the Saturday, November 8 drawing.There have been no
Dec 31, 2003, 3:09 pm - Lottery News

First Tennessee Games RevealedNews Story
Tennessee lottery players may have a chance at $1 million in prize money even before the Ping-Pong balls start popping up for the state's big money drawings this spring.Yesterday lottery President and Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Paul unveiled Tennessee Millionaire along with three other scratch-off ticket games that will go on sale in February, officially launching the drive for funding college scholarships through lottery sales.''At about 10:30 p.m. last night, we printed our first lottery
Dec 30, 2003, 5:30 am - Lottery News

Multi-state jackpots could bring holiday cheerNews Story
Just in time for the holidays, the nation's two multi-state lottery games have jackpots that have grown to thresholds that usually produce frenzied buying.The Mega Millions game, played in eleven states, now has a jackpot of $100 million dollars for Tuesday night's drawing.The Powerball game, played in 24 states, Washington D.C., and the Virgin Islands, is now sporting a top prize of $137 million dollars for Wednesday's drawing.If all this seems eerily familiar, that may be because last December
Dec 22, 2003, 6:18 am - Lottery News

French lottery to pay upNews Story
Games company Francaise des Jeux said it would compensate a handful of people who mistakenly thought they had won the jackpot because of printing errors on a batch of black jack scratch cards.Eight people in the Lorraine region of eastern France will be awarded between 2,000 and 40,000 euros for having had their dreams of wealth raised and dashed.The company devised a way to calculate how much distress the players had suffered linked to the amount they thought they had won and how long they were
Dec 8, 2003, 4:31 am - Lottery News

Texas Mega Millions Sales Begin TodayNews Story
For Texas Lottery lovers, there's a whole new ball game today.Beginning at 6 a.m., tickets were going on sale for Mega Millions, Texas' first foray into high-stakes, multistate lotteries.While chances for Mega Millions and the traditional Lotto Texas cost the same $1 the odds of winning the new game are much lower.But with the additional risk comes the lure of a substantially higher jackpot a minimum of $10 million, compared with Lotto Texas' $4 million minimum. People who play the lottery like
Dec 3, 2003, 5:50 am - Lottery News

Will Mega Millions be the ticket for Texas?News Story
Multistate game debuts this week with long odds, mixed predictionsTexas' plunge into the multistate lottery market this week with its promise of mega-jackpots and new revenues for the state is a bit of a gamble, supporters and critics agree.Tickets for the Mega Millions game go on sale Wednesday (December 3, 2003), followed by one of the twice-weekly drawings two days later (Friday, December 5, 2003). Texas is the 11th state to join the game.Yet-to-be answered questions: Will players be turned
Nov 29, 2003, 9:29 pm - Lottery News

Atlantic Lotto boosts 6/49 ticket prices and jackpotsNews Story
Odds of winning will also improve when price of Lotto 6/49 ticket doubles to $2Atlantic Lottery Corporation's Lotto 6/49 is getting a face lift - its first since the game's inception in 1982.The changes will see bigger jackpots offered more often, better odds of winning at least something, and a new $5 prize category, all to be funded by doubling the cost of a ticket.Known by most players simply as the 6/49, Lotto 6/49 is one of the most popular lottery games ever. 6/49 is played on average by
Nov 26, 2003, 4:48 am - Lottery News

State to display odds of winningNews Story
When Tennesseans start playing the lottery next year, they'll know something dreamers in many other states don't: the odds of winning.State law doesn't require the odds to be advertised, but Tennessee lottery chief Rebecca Paul believes it's good business to do so. Every place I've ever been has prominently displayed it in brochures, at point of sale, where people get their play slips, where they fill them out, Paul said. It's important to have it there and ready and available for anybody who
Nov 10, 2003, 4:51 am - Lottery News

Vermont Man Claims "Power" Bug in Vermont Lottery Powerball PromotionNews Story
Anyone looking to guess the correct number of jelly beans in a jar would do well to ask the opinion of Michael Patterson of Williamstown, Vermont. Mr. Patterson was declared the winner of a red, 2003 Volkswagen Beetle by the Vermont lottery when he guessed that the POWER BUG contained a total of 24,260 ping-pong balls. The correct number, as certified by the Vermont Lottery auditors, was 24,264 -- only four more than Mr. Patterson's solitary entry.The Vermont Lottery awarded the car as the g
Oct 10, 2003, 4:02 pm - Lottery News