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Kentucky Lottery's "666" numbers sell outNews Story
The number sequence 6-6-6 is seldom associated with luck, but Kentucky lottery players appear optimistic. Thousands of hopeful players quickly snatched up the 10,000 available Pick 3 tickets with the numbers 6-6-6 for today's midday drawing at 1:20 p.m., lottery spokesman Chip Polston said. The 10,000 available tickets for the 11 p.m. drawing were expected to be sold by early afternoon. Pick 4 tickets with the numbers 6-6-0-6 as many as 800 can be sold for both the midday and evening dra
Jun 6, 2006, 6:02 pm - Lottery News

Fla. Fantasy 5 lottery player wins $241,000News Story
One winner of the Florida Lottery's Fantasy 5 game will collect $241,009.50, a lottery official said Wednesday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Zephyrhills, lottery officials reported. The 344 tickets matching 4-of-5 numbers will collect $113 each. The 11,015 tickets matching 3-of-5 won $9.50 each, and 106,251 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking 2-of-5. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 1-5-9-30-34. Tonight's Florida Lotto jackpot is $6 million.
May 31, 2006, 11:45 am - Lottery News

Winning Florida Lotto ticket sold in Spring HillNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Thursday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Spring Hill, officials said. Other prizes included: 71 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,9184,282 tickets matched four numbers for $52.5079,724 tickets matched three numbers for $4 The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday were: 03-12-19-23-28-35. Fantasy 5 One winner of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $
May 25, 2006, 4:57 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery announces new Pick 5-style gameNews Story
Oklahoma lottery officials announced a new game will start that's similar to Powerball , although the game appears to have much more in common with Pick 5-style games. The game requires players to match five numbered balls and those that do will win $35,211, or $25,000 after taxes. Lottery officials are hoping the new game will prevent a drop-off in sales after the first full year of the lottery. The Lottery Commission is estimating sales and other earnings will bring in more than $400
May 18, 2006, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery had big winners this weekendNews Story
Two Florida Lotto players share $12 million jackpot Two tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to share a jackpot of $12 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Tampa and North Miami, officials said. Other prizes included: 145 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,571 each8,339 tickets matched four numbers for $50 each140,060 tickets matched three numbers for $4 each The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday were
May 1, 2006, 9:15 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery sales follow expected decline patternNews Story
North Carolina lottery fever is fading, new numbers show. The introduction last week of two new scratch-off games did not keep the state lottery from seeing sales decline from the previous week. Average daily sales of scratch-off tickets have dropped every week since the games began March 30. A breakdown of the sales: $5.6 million per day in week 1, when tickets were sold on only three days.$4.1 million per day in week 2.$3.2 million per day in week 3.$2.7 million per day in week 4, whi
Apr 25, 2006, 8:18 am - Lottery News

Lottery fever is alive and well in New JerseyNews Story
They call themselves the Coolers, based on the 2003 Las Vegas thriller The Cooler, starring William Macy. He plays a character who is hired in old-school casinos to subdue high rollers' action, until he falls in love. Unlike the movie, this group has not encountered Lady Luck and has yet to pinpoint its cooler. But that doesn't stop them from continuing their 15-year tradition of Thursday lottery lunches. It's no coincidence that Thursday just happens to be when the Pick 6 is drawn.
Apr 9, 2006, 10:39 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery could pick vendors todayNews Story
North Carolina lottery commissioners meet Monday and could pick winning vendors to operate the state's scratch-off ticket games and online, or automated, numbers games.Rivals Scientific Games and G-TECH Holdings each filed bids for both vendor contracts.Each seven year contract could generate millions of dollars in revenue annually for the winner.Four agencies filed bids Friday to land the advertising account for the North Carolina Education Lottery.Lottery executive director Tom Shaheen wants t
Jan 30, 2006, 6:55 am - Lottery News

Computerized lottery drawing glitch picks same numbers for 3 daysNews Story
Problem clearly demonstrates how computerized drawing faulty program code can go undetected even for something as obvious as three consecutive days of repeating numbers.A computerized drawing system glitch caused the Kansas Lottery's Pick 3 game to draw identical numbers in the same order three days straight, from Dec. 16 through Sunday.Apparently some players caught on. By day three of picking 5-0-9, ticket sales were $12,223, and the payout was $23,480, which is 192 percent of sales. The usu
Dec 23, 2005, 7:22 am - Lottery News

Canadian cattle farmer keeps $1 million lottery win secretNews Story
A Manitoba cattle farmer hasn't told his friends that he's the province's latest instant millionaire.Ted Yanke, a 59-year-old cattle farmer, won $1 million after scratching a Set For Life lottery ticket he'd picked on a whim in his hometown of Ashern.But until yesterday, the soft-spoken farmer had only told his family. I go to the coffee shop in the morning, he said. But when this happened, I didn't tell anybody. Yanke said he hadn't told anyone in Ashern, which has a population of 2,029. He t
Dec 19, 2005, 9:03 am - Lottery News