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Kentucky Lottery starts new 'Double Up Cash' game this weekendNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery will begin selling tickets Sunday for a new computerized game, Double Up Cash, that offers players a chance to double nonjackpot prizes if they correctly pick heads or tails. Numbers for the game will be chosen nightly, Monday through Saturday. Tickets cost $1, and the prize payouts range from a free-play ticket to a minimum jackpot of $40,000.The jackpot will increase by $10,000 for every night it isn't hit, up to a maximum of $500,000, said lottery spokesman Chip Polsto
Mar 30, 2005, 7:40 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery hurt by players' luckNews Story
Big prize payouts by the Kentucky Lottery, including multimillion dollar payments to winners in three February Pick 3 games, are making a dent in the amount of money being returned to the state treasury, lottery officials said Friday.Normally, in the twice-daily Pick 3 drawing, having the same digit for all three numbers occurs only once every six weeks or so, lottery officials said. But 3-3-3 was drawn on Feb. 2, resulting in payment of $2.86 million in prizes, 2-2-2 was drawn on Feb. 12, resul
Mar 28, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery Sales Pass $1 BillionNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced today that gross ticket sales have surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.This is terrific news for education, said CEO and President Rebecca Paul. Tennessee players have embraced this new way to raise dollars for education. This milestone represents an ongoing level of success that we are committed to continue.Lottery officials said they soon will start their fourth computerized game, set to begin late spring. The new game is said
Mar 14, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Nebraska man claims $198,000 Pick 5 lottery jackpotNews Story
After using a Tupperware cookie jar as a safe for two days, an Aurora man redeemed his jackpot-winning Nebraska Pick 5 ticket worth $198,000.Gale Rath purchased a five-play Nebraska Pick 5 ticket at the Pump Pantry in Aurora for the Saturday, Feb. 19 drawing.The next day, he got a list of the winning numbers after a friend had told him, Someone won on a ticket in Aurora. Rath retrieved the ticket from his truck, checked the numbers and realized he held the $198,000 winner.The winning number
Feb 25, 2005, 2:54 pm - Lottery News

Will Tennessee's new games cloud Kentucky lottery's future?News Story
Kentucky has Daniel Boone, Abe Lincoln, Adolph Rupp, Loretta Lynn, and Ashley Judd.Tenessee has Davy Crockett, Andy Jackson, Bob Neyland, Dolly Parton, and Dixie Carter.For a couple of centuries, there has been a border rivalry between Kentucky and Tennessee as the states have dueled over history and heroes and have had spats over sports and politics. Now the rivalry has become more serious than ever. The Big and the Big Orange are fighting over the Big Green - as in money.Kentucky has the lotte
Jan 27, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Kentucky lottery sales fall, but still exceed forecastNews Story
Tennessee games cut into revenue The year-old Tennessee Lottery continues to have less impact on Kentucky Lottery revenues than expected, with ticket sales for the first six months of fiscal 2004-05 down just 8 percent from the same period last year.Sales from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2004, were $20 million higher than forecast last spring, when officials were still trying to gauge the impact of the competing Tennessee Lottery, directors of the Kentucky Lottery Corp. learned at a meeting late las
Jan 25, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery set to roll out changesNews Story
The Florida Lottery will implement a series of changes January 31, including new lottery machines, changes to the Pick 4 game, and new game called Grouper.The new game Grouper is really a new way to play Florida lottery games, rather than being a new game itself. When players purchase a Grouper ticket, they pay $5 for quick picks of five existing games and get a sixth quick pick -- for free -- of a randomly selected game.On the same day Grouper sales begin, lottery retailers throughout the stat
Jan 24, 2005, 11:45 am - Lottery News

New Delaware Lotto Game to be Launched Amid Concerns Over DrawingsNews Story
While the Delaware Lottery is launching its new Multi-Win Lotto game on Thursday, lawmakers will be continuing work on a measure stipulating that the lottery must convert back to mechanical drawing machines and live television broadcasts.But lottery officials say their high-tech system provides top security and ensures the offerings remain games of chance.Inside lottery headquarters in Dover, an auditor from an outside firm and state lottery office personnel gather in a secure room to draw the n
Jan 22, 2005, 1:05 am - Lottery News

111 on 1-11 means one big loss for Ohio LotteryNews Story
Triple ones cost the Ohio Lottery nearly $3.5 million on 1-11.The Pick 3 Numbers day drawing was 111 on Tuesday, forcing the lottery to pay out more than $3.9 million to winners despite only $427,094.50 in sales.Everyone who played 111 on their $1 ticket won $500.It's the second time 111 has been drawn on 1-11. It happened previously on Jan. 11, 1982.Pick 3 was first drawn Dec. 6, 1979, the Ohio Lottery said.The odds of any three-digit number occurring in any one Pick 3 drawing are 1 in 1,000 (0
Jan 12, 2005, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Triple 8's Still Hot in Virginia LotteryNews Story
Virginia Lottery players are once again coming out ahead.Just two weeks to the day since 8-8-8 was drawn in the Virginia Lottery's Pick 3 game, the exact same order combination was drawn in Monday's Pick 3 day drawing.That means that every player who wagered $1.00 on the Exact Order combination won the top prize of $500. When you add it all up, Virginia Lottery players wagered a total of $363,310 for the Monday, January 10, 2005 Pick 3 day drawing, and they won a total of $1,005,025 in prizes!
Jan 11, 2005, 8:18 am - Lottery News