Search

Missouri Lottery sold tickets after game endedNews Story
Players to get refunds if they saved their tickets The Missouri Lottery blundered Monday when it ended one numbers game and launched another, but will correct their mistake for players who saved their game tickets. A total of 473 people were able to buy lottery tickets for the Show Me 5 Paydown game on Monday, even though the game's final drawing was held Sunday evening. On Monday, the Missouri Lottery replaced its twice-daily Show Me 5 Paydown game with Show Me Cash, a similar Pick 5-s
Sep 10, 2008, 12:04 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $102 millionNews Story
N.C. player wins $800,000 Power Play prize The jackpot in America's Game is growing. With no winner of Saturday's $92 million jackpot, the top prize in Wednesday's drawing is now $102 million. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in North Carolina purchased with the Power Play option matched all 5 white numbers and won an $800,000 cash prize. Four tickets additional tickets from the states of Connecticut, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, pur
Sep 7, 2008, 10:07 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery changing games MondayNews Story
Missouri Lottery players will get a new numbers game Monday, but also lose one. Show Me Cash, a daily on-line drawing, is set to begin Monday when the twice-daily and struggling Show Me 5 Paydown game goes out of business. Lottery spokesman Gary Gonder said the new Pick 5-style game would offer players bigger jackpots and better odds of winning. The top prize in every Paydown drawing was a tax-free, lump sum $50,000. But if no player won that prize, cash trickled down to increase the a
Sep 6, 2008, 2:54 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $92 millionNews Story
Even though the grand prize was not hit after the Wednesday evening drawing, Powerball generated some big winners. Four tickets sold in the Wednesday drawing won $200,000 by matching the first 5 white ball numbers: 2 in Minnesota, 1 in Missouri, and 1 in Oregon. The jackpot for the Saturday, September 6th Powerball drawing is an estimated $92 million with a cash option of $46.3 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 38, 40, 46, 49, 50, and the Powerball was 34. The Power P
Sep 6, 2008, 2:33 pm - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lt. Gov. pushes lottery proposalNews Story
Four times members of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's staff have traveled to various corners of Arkansas to speak about the lottery proposal. When college has never been more important to Arkansas, it's also never been more expensive. Halter says Arkansas needs more college graduates. And the way to fund that is to keep some of the dollars flying out of Arkansas to neighboring states lottery games. Halter says, In Texas alone they raised more than a billion dollars for education last year off of t
Jul 15, 2008, 6:54 pm - Lottery News

Petition submitted for starting Arkansas lotteryNews Story
Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter submitted 138,615 signatures Thursday in support of a constitutional amendment creating a state-run lottery, moving his proposal to help fund college scholarships closer toward appearing on the November ballot. Supporters needed 77,468 signatures by July 7 to get the measure on the November ballot. Tim Humphries, an attorney for the secretary of state's office, said officials will count and certify the valid signatures on July 7 and Halter will have 30 days to su
Jun 27, 2008, 8:45 am - Lottery News

$275 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot raised againNews Story
The Powerball jackpot continues to build, now exceeding the level attained by Mega Millions last month before it was won by a Georgia couple. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot grew to an estimated $275 million for Saturday night's drawing, with a cash option of $135.7 million. It is the largest American jackpot in nearly seven months. The last jackpot to reach this level was a $330 Million Mega Millions jackpot on August 31, 2007. That was right after a $314 mi
Mar 13, 2008, 8:21 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $230 millionNews Story
The jackpot in America's Game continues to grow, as do the lines at the lottery ticket counters. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $230 million, with a cash option of $113.6 Million. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 3 lucky tickets in New Mexico (1) and South Carolina (2) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $400,000 cash each. Thirteen other winners matched
Mar 10, 2008, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Nebraska man wins Iowa Lottery's $500,000 second-chance jackpotNews Story
A railroad worker from Lincoln, Nebraska collected a $500,000 check Friday from the second chance drawing of the Iowa/Kansas Midwest Millions scratch ticket lottery game. Fifty-year-old Ralph Kuwamoto says he bought the tickets at a store called Eddy's in Glenwood, Iowa and then mailed them in for the second-chance drawing. Kuwamoto says he didn't think anything about it until a friend called. He says he was coming home from St. Joseph, Missouri when he got a call from a buddy in Arizona
Jan 19, 2008, 11:36 pm - Lottery News