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Tickets for updated Mega Millions game on sale SaturdayNews Story
By Todd Northrop Starting Saturday, October 19, lottery players from around the United States will be able to buy tickets for the newly-refreshed Mega Millions game, with a ticket price that is remaining just $1 per play. Mega Millions drawings will have larger, faster growing jackpots, million-dollar second prizes and better odds of winning any prize. We think that players will respond favorably to the new Mega Millions changes and expect even greater sales for the game, said Gary Gri
Oct 18, 2013, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

New Tri-State lottery game debuting SundayNews Story
By Todd Northrop A new pick 5-style lottery game called Gimme 5 goes on sale Sunday in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont the states that collectively are known as 'Tri-State'. The first drawing for the new Gimme 5 game will be held Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine Lotteries are once again joining together to offer our players a new draw game, said Greg Smith, Executive Director of the Vermont Lottery. Tri-State Gimme 5 is a fresh, easy-to-play game that car
May 9, 2013, 12:52 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery kicks off 2012 with raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop For four lucky Ohio lottery players, 2012 will begin with a windfall of one million dollars. The winning numbers for the Ohio Lottery's New Year's Raffle game were announced this evening. The full list of lottery results can be found on Lottery Post's Ohio Lottery Results page. The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale in November. 500,000 tickets were available. This is the fifth consecutive New Year's Raffle for the Ohio Lottery. The game has the best odds to win
Jan 2, 2012, 8:56 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery draws raffle winning numbersNews Story
State tries different raffle cost, prize format By Todd Northrop This afternoon the Florida Lottery conducted its eighth raffle drawing, but its first using a new lower-cost and lower top prize format. The top prize in Lucky 7 Raffle is $700,000, but hundreds of other players will win prizes ranging from $70 to the top $700,000 prize. The complete list of winning numbers for Lucky 7 Raffle can be found at Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page. Tickets for the raffle went on
May 5, 2011, 3:35 pm - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery holds first of four bonus raffle drawingsNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Colorado Lottery's first bonus drawing for its newest $20 raffle game, Bonus Millionaire Raffle, was held Sunday. Ten random raffle ticket numbers were randomly selected from all of the raffle ticket numbers sold before Sunday, with each number drawn worth $2,000. The winning numbers for the bonus draw are displayed at Lottery Post's Colorado Lottery Results page. All future bonus draws plus the main draw will also be published on that page following each drawing.
May 2, 2011, 2:37 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery director's benefits in conflict with law?News Story
Arkansas law expressly prohibits the use of a multiplier in determining the state lottery director's salary for retirement purposes, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an opinion Monday. Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue's base salary is $141,603 a year, but the Lottery Commission has been paying him $324,000 a year thanks to an optional multiplier included in the state's lottery law. His retirement benefits have been based on the $324,000 figure, not his base salary. Sen. Bobby Gl
Feb 8, 2011, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Three state lotteries set to begin new multi-state gameNews Story
Decades of Dollars to replace Win For Life game By Todd Northrop UPDATED: Since the original news story was written, it has come to our attention that Arkansas will not be participating in the new lottery game, due to legislative hurdles, and the Win For Life game will continue to be played in Virginia. The title of the story has been changed to reflect three state lotteries, rather than the four state lotteries originally referenced, and the body of the article has been updated with the a
Jan 11, 2011, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery kicks off 2011 with raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop For four lucky Ohio lottery players, 2011 will begin with a windfall of one million dollars. The winning numbers for the Ohio Lottery's New Year's Raffle game were announced this evening. The full list of lottery results can be found on Lottery Post's Ohio Lottery Results page. The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 12. 500,000 tickets were available. This is the fourth consecutive New Year's Raffle for the Ohio Lottery. The game has the best odds to win $1
Jan 1, 2011, 8:49 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery rings in the New Year with raffleNews Story
For four lucky Ohio lottery players, 2010 will begin with a windfall of one million dollars. The winning numbers for the Ohio Lottery's New Year's Raffle game were announced this evening. The full list of lottery results can be found on Lottery Post's Ohio Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/oh). The $20 tickets for the raffle went on sale Nov. 20. 500,000 tickets were available. This is the third consecutive New Year's Raffle for the Ohio Lottery. The game has the best od
Jan 2, 2010, 9:08 pm - Lottery News

Five-time lottery winner accused of taking ticket from groupNews Story
It will be up to the courts to decide if a Calgary-area man's amazing run of lotto luck will continue. Seguro Ndabene of Airdrie, just north of Calgary, has already won the lottery four times in the past five years including two wins of $1 million, another of $100,000 and a fourth prize of $50,000. But his biggest win of all $17 million in a Super 7 draw back in January is being disputed. Ndabene's claim as sole winner is being questioned by a man who alleges the winning ticket was part
Oct 28, 2009, 9:52 am - Lottery News