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New York Lottery changes Take 5 game to twice-daily drawings
Second daily drawing to begin next week
By Kate Northrop
The New York Lottery added a second daily drawing to its popular Take 5 draw game, with the change effective starting next week.
Beginning this Monday, July 26, the Lottery will offer New York players another daily drawing for the Take 5 game, with one drawing to take place in the afternoon and the other in the evening.
Take 5 created more than 2.5 million cash prize winners last fiscal year, New York Lottery Executive Di
Jul 23, 2021, 11:36 am - Lottery News
Texas Lottery to add third weekly Lotto Texas drawing
Additional drawing to begin in August
By Kate Northrop
Texas Lottery players will get an additional chance to hit the Lotto Texas jackpot with a new weekly drawing to be added this August.
Lotto Texas is the latest game to be included to the Monday Night Draw schedule, joining various other games that night in the Lottery's lineup.
Also known as The Texas Original, it's a 28-year-old game that offers the largest rolling jackpots drawn in a local statewide game. Players pick six numb
Jul 22, 2021, 10:36 am - Lottery News
Missouri will allow lottery winners to remain anonymous
New law takes effect in August
By Kate Northrop
Lottery winners in Missouri will soon be able to claim their prizes under full anonymity once a new law takes effect in August.
On Tuesday afternoon, Governor Mike Parson signed four bills into law, one of which allows Missouri Lottery winners the ability to keep their names a secret.
According to a press release from the Governor's website, HB 402 prohibits the Lottery Commission from publishing a winner's name unless they have w
Jun 30, 2021, 1:00 pm - Lottery News
Results are in: Kentucky Lottery ranked best place to work in Kentucky
By Kate Northrop
On Wednesday, the Kentucky Lottery announced that it was named the best place to work in the state by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management.
In March, the unranked list of companies who made the cut for 2021 was released, but the official ranked list was announced last week at the 17th Annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky awards ceremony held in Lexington.
The Kentucky Lottery was ranked the Best Place to Work in K
Jun 24, 2021, 1:35 pm - Lottery News
Local retailers worry about future of UK National Lottery in stores
Convenience stores worry about the Lottery moving closer to digital sales channels
By Kate Northrop
Lottery retailers in the United Kingdom are expressing concerns about the future of the lottery in brick-and-mortar stores now that the contract for operating the lottery is up for grabs.
Camelot Group has run the National Lottery for nearly three decades. Now that the contract is up for renewal, local retailers worry that a new operator would mainly prioritize online sales and push out s
Jun 7, 2021, 11:44 am - Lottery News
Kentucky Lottery reports record $1.3 billion in sales
Lottery sees highest sales in state history
By Kate Northrop
The Kentucky Lottery announced during a board of directors meeting last week that its sales are at an all-time high, the largest in the organization's 32-year history at $1.3 billion.
Vice President and Corporate Controller Maggie Garrison reported some impressive figures at the meeting. For the fiscal year-to-date sales (July-April), the Lottery took in $1.3 billion, $369.7 million (39.6%) higher compared to the same period l
May 19, 2021, 4:45 pm - Lottery News
Minnesota Lottery to discontinue Lucky for Life
Minnesota is the latest state to end participation the multi-state game
By Kate Northrop
The Minnesota Lottery revealed that it will no longer offer the Lucky for Life multi-state draw game after the drawing on Jun. 28, 2021.
The Lottery also announced that advance draw purchases will be limited in Minnesota starting this Thurs., May 13.
Players will gradually be able to purchase fewer advance draws with each consecutive drawing, with 13 advance draws available during the sales perio
May 11, 2021, 4:41 pm - Lottery News
UPDATE: New Jersey Lottery restores Fast Play sales following glitch
Lottery promises compensation for some players
By Kate Northrop
The New Jersey Lottery today announced that sales for its Fast Play family of games will be restored this evening after a software issue forced ticket sales offline and provided details regarding compensation for affected tickets.
On Tuesday, the Lottery suspended Fast Play sales immediately after discovering a vendor software error.
Sales for the Fast Play family of games are scheduled to resume tonight, Apr. 29 at 5:00
Apr 29, 2021, 4:16 pm - Lottery News
New Jersey Lottery suspends Fast Play sales due to software issue
No definite timeline for sales to start again
By Kate Northrop
The New Jersey Lottery announced last night that ticket sales for the Fast Play family of games was suspended due to a vendor software issue.
Tickets for Fast Play are printed by Lottery terminals and are also available at self-service vending machines. When a player buys a Fast Play ticket, it immediately informs whether they won.
Upon discovery of the problem, the Lottery immediately halted ticket sales. The suspension
Apr 28, 2021, 3:18 pm - Lottery News
Powerball will stay in Idaho
Freedom to play Powerball is restored.
By Kate Northrop
The Idaho Lottery today announced that Powerball, Idaho's longest running and most popular lottery game, will continue to be offered in the state.
The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), the governing body for the Powerball game, informed its members yesterday that international Powerball sales will be delayed until sometime in 2022. As a result, the decision to soon remove Powerball from the Idaho Lottery's game offerings ha
Apr 21, 2021, 2:02 pm - Lottery News