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Iowa Lottery introduces electronic instant game cardNews Story
The world's first electronic version of a lottery instant-scratch game begins statewide sales this week in Iowa.The Iowa Lottery is the first to bring the new product, known as the electronic game card, to market. The first game card is Quarter Play, which aptly describes it - with 80 plays on a card sold for $20, each play costs 25 cents. The game cards are being distributed for sale to lottery retailers beginning today.Each electronic game card, about the size of a driver's license, is batte
May 17, 2005, 12:04 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameNews Story
The 29 lotteries that participate in the Powerball game have voted to make changes that will boost the average jackpot size, but also will boost the odds of winning.Starting Aug. 29, the beginning jackpot will increase to $15 million from the current $10 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association announced Wednesday. The top prize will grow by no less than $5 million between each drawing. Lottery games need to be changed from time to time, to respond to both player demands and population chang
Apr 6, 2005, 4:57 pm - Lottery News

Too many players winning Powerball, lottery saysNews Story
The agency running the Powerball lottery might decrease the odds of winning the multimillion-dollar jackpot to stem a record-setting run of winners that is keeping jackpots small and, the agency says, causing ticket sales to plunge. To some extent, you try to ride it out. But I think we'll need to make some changes to the game pretty soon, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Urbandale, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the game. We'll lose more than $400 milli
Mar 22, 2005, 7:21 am - Lottery News

Penn. officials study slots' effect on lottery revenuesNews Story
Pennsylvania state senators pressed state Revenue Secretary Greg Fajt last week on just one of the many multimillion dollar questions pertaining to the imminent arrival of slot machines.Will the new gaming harm the Pennsylvania Lottery, now flourishing due to the many small-time gamblers who focus their wagering dollars on the numbers and instant games?Fajt's answer on behalf of the pro-slots Rendell administration: We don't think so.But no one knows for certain. The question has not been studie
Feb 21, 2005, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery Scratch Games' Empty PromisesNews Story
Most players know the odds of getting rich from the Georgia Lottery are slim, but a recent investigation found you have no chance of winning the top cash prize when you play some scratch-off games.One of those games is 5 Karat Gold, a $1 instant game. Records from the Georgia Lottery show the game has no top prizes left because they were all claimed by mid-November.If I already knew that, then there's no way I'd buy this ticket, said player Brian Wright. That would be a false investment. Additio
Feb 15, 2005, 11:31 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpots will get bigger, quickerNews Story
The odds of record-setting jackpots in the Mega Millions lottery will improve tremendously after California joins the multistate game later this year.The nation's most-populated state will bring an influx of new players and money that promises to boost the lottery's prize pool for players in all Mega Millions states. Jackpots will grow much faster and at much higher levels, said Carole Everett at the Mega Millions lottery's headquarters in Baltimore. The lottery is drawn in Atlanta.California w
Feb 10, 2005, 9:26 am - Lottery News

Seven Days Left Until $14 Million Illinois Lottery Jackpot ExpiresNews Story
Time Is Quickly Running Out for One Lucky Winner of Huge Illinois Lottery PrizeA $14 million Illinois Lottery jackpot will expire at midnight on January 31, 2005 if no winner steps forward with the winning ticket.If the jackpot remains unclaimed, it will be the largest unclaimed prize in Illinois Lottery history.All Lottery players in the border states of Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky; as well as anyone that has traveled to Illinois and played the Lottery are urged to check fo
Jan 26, 2005, 12:09 pm - Lottery News

Two men played key roles in establishing Kentucky LotteryNews Story
Two people played key roles in Kentucky's joining the growing ranks of states with lotteries. One of them was a politician who grabbed the headlines. The other was a storekeeper who worked behind the scenes, but his role in the founding of the now 15-year-old Kentucky Lottery Corp. was an important one.In the headlines was the late Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, a Lexington-based millionaire textbook salesman who was a native of Liberty. Behind the scenes was J.N. Frankel, a prominent Danville merchant
Jan 25, 2005, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery Unveils Chocolate-Scented TicketsNews Story
Iowa's lottery customers may get a chocolate craving when they buy their tickets next week.The Iowa Lottery will begin selling chocolate-scented Sweet Rewards instant scratch-off cards Monday.The Sweet Rewards tickets are $1 scratch-off game cards with a Valentine's Day theme, according to the agency's news release. Winnings range from $1 to $200.When a player scratches off the game card, a chocolate smell is emitted, the news release said. The tickets may be good enough to eat, but remember t
Jan 21, 2005, 5:06 pm - Lottery News

Iowa man wins $100,000 lottery for second timeNews Story
An eastern Iowa man has beat extraordinary odds by winning $100,000 from the Iowa Lottery's Cash Game a second time.K. Morris Richardson picked up his second jackpot on Tuesday. I just kind of smiled all the way to the bank, he said.Richardson first won $100,000 in 2000 through the same daily game. His latest win came when he matched the five numbers for Monday's drawing.Richardson, 79, a member of the Solon American Legion Post 460, bought the $100,000 Cash Game ticket at a Hy-Vee Food store.
Nov 15, 2004, 9:14 am - Lottery News