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Ontario Lottery nixes Bingo scratch ticketsNews Story
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has hired outside auditors and is working with the printer, as it investigates a complaint that winning cards on two editions of a Super Bingo game could be identified without scratching them, a spokesperson has confirmed. In the meantime, the corporation has recalled more than one million of the scratch-and-win games and will destroy them, according to OLGC spokesperson Don Pister, who noted 19.5 million game cards had been printed. They were dis
Mar 22, 2007, 9:15 am - Lottery News

Does $9 goof point to larger problems with Ontario Lottery?News Story
When Ralph Landry finally wins the big one, he wants to know that the jackpot isn't accidentally given to somebody else. But the 67-year-old retired Air Canada employee has lost faith after he went to claim a small prize and found out that somehow somebody else got paid the money in another town. How does this happen? he asked. The self-proclaimed lottery addict bought his daily dose of lottery tickets at the Daisy Mart on Dec. 27, won $9 on a scratch-and-win Bingo and then within
Jan 11, 2007, 4:33 pm - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery adds Sunday drawingsNews Story
In an effort to ward off losses to North Carolina, the Virginia Lottery is adding Sunday drawings, starting this weekend. Competition south of the border will cut into Virginia Lottery profits this year, but new games could limit the losses to North Carolina. You don't want to sit still and watch that flattening of sales occur, said Sheila Hill-Christian, executive director of the State Lottery Department. The North Carolina lottery, started last year, could lop profits $50 million, d
Jan 5, 2007, 1:34 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery to ditch Lot 'O Play game over lack of interestNews Story
...or maybe over a lack 'O good name? The bingo-style Lot 'O Play game that the Ohio Lottery launched slightly more than a year ago will disappear Jan. 20 after a long struggle to win the hearts of players. In its place, Classic Lotto, a more traditional and preferred game of chance, will debut Jan. 21, lottery officials said. Lot 'O Play didn't catch on, and it's not what our players wanted, said Mardele Cohen, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Lottery. Lot 'O Play, which replaced th
Dec 20, 2006, 1:24 pm - Lottery News

Mechanic Got $200,000 Powerball N.C. Lottery Ticket In RaleighNews Story
A Goldsboro man who purchased his ticket in Raleigh came away a big winner last Saturday in the Powerball drawing. He matched all five white balls in Saturday's Powerball drawing to win $200,000. Henry Bunn visited the North Carolina Education Lottery's headquarters earlier this week to collect his $200,000 Powerball prize. Bunn purchased the winning ticket at Kangaroo Gas Station #935 on Capital Boulevard in Raleigh while he was on vacation. Bunn told lottery officials that he has pla
Aug 25, 2006, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winner remains silentNews Story
Let's say you opened your Tulsa World to Page 3, checked your Powerball numbers in the top right-hand corner same as you do every Thursday and Sunday and found you had a perfect, exact match. Let's say that made the ticket worth $101.8 million. Would you run screaming down the street? Call everybody you know and maybe everybody in the phone book? Faint? For the holder of a winning Powerball ticket sold in Broken Arrow about three weeks ago, the answer to at least two of
Jul 4, 2006, 7:48 am - Lottery News

TV network chosen to air N.C. Lottery drawingsNews Story
The Triangle's CBS affiliate has been chosen to produce and air the nightly number drawings for the North Carolina Education Lottery, with the first lottery broadcast coming later this month with a drawing for the multi-state Powerball game. WRAL-TV in Raleigh won out over WTVD-TV in Durham for the right to show the drawings on its station and provide it to other television outlets statewide. WRAL was the choice of an evaluation committee and executive director Tom Shaheen. The N.C. Educat
May 18, 2006, 9:39 am - Lottery News

Calif. lottery sales up 7 percentNews Story
Lottery sales are up 7 percent halfway through the fiscal year, the California Lottery reported over the weekend, representing an increase of $119 million. Lottery sales totaled $1.75 billion in the first two quarters, up from $1.53 billion in the same period a year ago. The lottery is coming off a record year that recorded sales of $3.33 billion. The state lottery commission credited the Mega Millions game and Scratchers with bingo and crossword themes for increasing interest. Offic
Feb 7, 2006, 11:15 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery's new game three months without jackpot winnerNews Story
The Ohio Lottery's newest game, which replaced Super Lotto Plus in October, has gone three months without a jackpot winner and some players and sellers think the 100-number, bingo-style Lot 'O Play game is too complicated. The game is mind-boggling, Alonzo Adams, 52, of Cleveland, said Friday outside a busy lottery outlet.That's the reaction Elizabeth Bost gets from lottery players from her vantage point at a gift shop in New Paris northwest of Dayton. There's too many numbers, she said.The L
Jan 9, 2006, 7:01 am - Lottery News

Lottery number strategies subject of newspaper investigationNews Story
The odds are long. The drawings are random. And the house keeps a much greater share of wagers than other forms of gambling.In sum: The lottery cannot be beaten. There is no system that can improve your chances of winning the lottery, period, says Mike Orkin, a California mathematician who has written extensively about gambling odds.Yet the quest for an ever-elusive winning lottery strategy is alive and well and for sale.On a quiet, dead-end street in Denville stands the headquarters of Doubl
Dec 6, 2005, 1:26 am - Lottery News