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$280M in dreams for only a dollarNews Story
Record Friday drawing to be held in Times SquareFor a buck, you could be richer than A-Rod.But first there are some mighty long odds to buck in tomorrow's $280 million Mega Millions drawing.With the jackpot in the 11-state lottery soaring to a record high, New Yorkers armed with the proverbial dollar and a dream yesterday fantasized about super-sized bank accounts. One dollar and that's it, said Michael Davis, a Greyhound driver buying a ticket at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. That's all it
Jul 1, 2004, 8:24 am - Lottery News

474 keeps coming up in Pennsylvania LotteryNews Story
Wanna make a quick $250? Or maybe more?If recent history is any indication -- which it isn't -- play 474 on today's Daily Number, and you just may beat the long odds. The number has hit four times since May 17, when 474 was drawn as the midday Daily Number. On May 29, the number hit during the evening drawing. And Saturday, the number hit twice, once in the afternoon and again that evening.The odds of that happening are quite literally one in a million. That's better than your odds of hitting a
Jun 15, 2004, 8:06 am - Lottery News

N.D. to add two new lottery gamesNews Story
North Dakota lottery players will have a second game to play come June 24, four months after the state introduced Powerball.The North Dakota Lottery has announced the arrival of Hot Lotto, a game lottery officials describe as similar to Powerball.For a $1 ticket, Hot Lotto players have a shot at a $1 million jackpot. Players select five numbers from 1 to 39 and one number from 1 to 19 and have a 1 in 16 chance of winning.Drawing dates will take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays and jackpot prize
Jun 7, 2004, 10:50 am - Lottery News

Can you beat the odds to win the Powerball jackpot?News Story
If you've played the Powerball drawings and lost, would you like to improve your odds of winning the multi-million dollar jackpot? The head of the University of Tennessee's math department explains whether it's possible to beat the odds.People say getting struck by lightning is a better bet than winning a lottery. But the National Association of States and Provincial Lotteries web site says that in 1996, 1,136 people won $1,000,000 or more playing lotteries in America. And 4,520 others won $100,
May 21, 2004, 7:49 am - Lottery News

Canada to change Lotto 6/49News Story
Canada's Lotto 6/49 is going for gold with bigger jackpots and better chances of winning. Starting May 30, the first major changes in the game's 22-year history will take effect. We're hoping these changes will provide added excitement, said Kathleen Polyak, spokeswoman for the Western Canada Lottery Corporation.The game will still be based on the popular 6/49 format, but it will offer bigger jackpots more often, a new $5 prize category and better overall odds of winning a prize.But to enable b
May 20, 2004, 7:25 am - Lottery News

NY Lotto inching closer to all-time highNews Story
The New York Lotto is two rollovers away from its all-time high of $55 million.The current Lotto jackpot of $47 million is the result of 19 consecutive rollovers. The jackpot started at $3 million on Wednesday, March 03, 2004, and since then no ticket has matched all 6 numbers drawn.The next drawing of New York Lotto will take place Wednesday, May 12 at 11:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time.The record New York lottery jackpot was set on Wednesday, April 23, 2003, when two lucky players matched all six
May 11, 2004, 9:51 am - Lottery News

Michigan man wins $1 million lottery jackpot twiceNews Story
Russell Tanner better stay inside during a thunderstorm, because if somebody has a chance of being struck by lightning, it's him.The 78-year-old Dexter resident won his second $1 million scratch-off lottery game last week the only known two-time winner of the game in Michigan.The retired custodian and factory worker who still lived in a manufactured home following his June 2002 winning ticket, said he was stunned to win again. I couldn't believe that I could be so blessed. It just feels great to
May 7, 2004, 4:44 pm - Lottery News

Winning $4 million Hoosier Lotto ticket sold in South BendNews Story
There is only one winning ticket from Wednesday night's $4 million Hoosier Lotto drawing and it was purchased in South Bend, Indiana.As of Thursday night, no one had come forward with the winning ticket.Discount Liquor, 2609 S. Michigan St., sold the ticket. When store management got the call from lottery representatives Thursday morning, they thought it was a joke.Discount Liquor will get a good chunk of money just for selling the winning ticket -- $37,000 to be exact. It's all customers and st
Apr 9, 2004, 7:38 am - Lottery News

Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"News Story
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with 1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.But a physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that in theory it would have been fairly easy to carry out with a little know-how and the right tools.Two men and a woman were arrested on 16 March after raking in a huge win over two evenings. Suspicious casino staff are
Mar 25, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Gang arrested after £1.3m win at Ritz casinoNews Story
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of using James Bond-style electronic trickery to win almost 1.3 million at a London casino.The Metropolitan Police said today that two men and a woman, all from Eastern Europe, had been arrested for allegedly obtaining money by deception.They are accused of using a scanner inserted into a mobile phone and hooked up to a microcomputer to calculate where a roulette ball would probably fall after the third turn of the wheel.The Daily Mirror newspaper re
Mar 22, 2004, 4:41 pm - Lottery News