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Ireland Lottery retailers trying to keep up with jackpot frenzyNews Story
Stores are stuffed with hopeful lottery players ahead of the must-win Lotto draw By Kate Northrop Ireland National Lottery retailers are experiencing a massive surge of lottery ticket sales in advance of the must-win Lotto draw to be held on Saturday. On Thursday, the Lottery announced that one or more players are guaranteed to win the record-breaking 19.06 million (US$21.81 million) Lotto jackpot in a will be won event after it rolled seven months without a winner. Since the a
Jan 14, 2022, 4:13 pm - Lottery News

Ireland National Lottery to hold must-win draw for €19 million jackpotNews Story
The seven-month winner drought will finally end Saturday By Kate Northrop It's been seven months without a winner in the Ireland National Lottery's Lotto game, and Saturday, the capped 19.06 million (US$21.81 million) jackpot will finally be awarded to one (or more) lucky players. The National Lottery announced on Thursday that one or more players will win the current record-breaking Lotto jackpot in a guaranteed will be won event to be held this Saturday. We know that most of
Jan 13, 2022, 2:09 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery to add third weekly Lotto Texas drawingNews Story
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

New Jersey Lottery ticket sales temporarily unavailableNews Story
Lottery is halting ticket purchases during morning hours tomorrow By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery today announced that ticket sales for all draw games will be temporarily suspended Friday, Feb. 26. The Lottery will be applying an upgrade to its wagering system used for purchasing draw-based Lottery games. Players will not be able to buy tickets for those games between 12:01 am and approximately 10:00 am Friday. However, midday drawings for Pick 3 and Pick 4 will not be interr
Feb 25, 2021, 11:57 am - Lottery News

Texas Lotto jackpot grows to largest in a decadeNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Texas Lottery's premier in-state jackpot game, Lotto Texas, has now gone 65 drawings without a top prize winner, generating a jackpot that is the largest the game has seen in more than a decade. With no jackpot-winning tickets sold for the Aug. 29, 2020 drawing, the game's jackpot prize has grown to an estimated $36.75 million for the Sept. 2, 2020 drawing the largest jackpot since May 29, 2010 drawing when the game boasted an advertised $97 million jackpot prize. W
Aug 31, 2020, 1:52 pm - Lottery News

Canada's Lotto Max jackpot sets game recordNews Story
New rules lift jackpot cap to $70 million By Todd Northrop In the first days of the new year, records are already being broken in Lotto Max, one of Canada's nationwide lottery games. Tuesday's Lotto Max jackpot is a record-breaking $70 million, the biggest jackpot offered in Canadian history. The record-breaking amount comes after changes to the lottery in May allowed for the lottery winnings to surpass $60 million. Since the changes, jackpots of $65 million have been offered on t
Jan 6, 2020, 1:33 pm - Lottery News

MUSL paid $1.5 million to settle lawsuit over rigged jackpotNews Story
A national lottery group agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by an Iowa man who claimed that a $9 million jackpot he won in 2011 would have been bigger if the previous one hadn't been fixed by an insider. An email released Friday shows that the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) informed its directors on Oct. 9 that it had agreed to pay Larry Dawson $1.5 million as a full and final settlement of his claims. The association had refused to release details of the settleme
Dec 9, 2019, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery launches updated Lotto gameNews Story
The classic Lotto game is now Colorado Lotto+ On Sunday, the Colorado Lottery's 30 year-old Lotto game was replaced with the new-and-improved Colorado Lotto+. All 3,200 of the Lottery's retailer partners launched Colorado Lotto+ on September 22. The new game increased the cost to $2 per ticket, and has better odds of winning and more ways to win. The first Colorado Lotto+ drawing is set for Wednesday night, September 25. Colorado Lotto+ is similar to the classic Lotto game in that playe
Sep 23, 2019, 10:19 am - Lottery News

$11.7 million Michigan Lotto 47 jackpot is largest in more than 2 yearsNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Michigan Lottery's Lotto 47 jackpot hasn't been won in more than five months and has reached an extraordinary $11.7 million for the drawing on Saturday. The last time a player in Michigan won the jackpot was in February when a $2.5 million jackpot winner was bought at the Uptown Bar, located at 8 West Front Street in Monroe. The Lotto 47 jackpot hasn't been this large since Feb. 18, 2017, when a $22.55 million was won after more than 7 months of rollovers. The curre
Jul 11, 2019, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner can seek bigger prize at trial, judge rulesNews Story
Lucky Larry may have a shot to win millions more this time from a jury. A judge has ordered a trial in a lawsuit filed by Iowa lottery winner Larry Dawson, who contends a $9 million jackpot that he won in 2011 should have been nearly three times as big. Dawson filed his lawsuit in 2016 after an investigation revealed that lottery contractor Eddie Tipton rigged the previous $16.5 million jackpot, bought the winning ticket himself and unsuccessfully worked with associates to claim it. Da
May 17, 2019, 12:01 pm - Lottery News