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NJ Lottery rounds off 50th Anniversary celebrationNews Story
Lottery to host Facebook Live event tonight By Kate Northrop Today marks the New Jersey Lottery's 50th year in operation, and to round off the year-long celebration, it will be hosting a Facebook Live event where 50 players will have the chance to receive $500 in scratch-off tickets. The New Jersey Lottery sold its first ticket to former Governor William Cahill on December 16, 1970. Back then, tickets cost only 50 cents. Now, the Lottery has grown to offer more games and player experien
Dec 16, 2020, 12:28 pm - Lottery News

Man sues New Hampshire Lottery over losing scratch-off ticketNews Story
Player claims that Lottery owes him either a gold bar or $750,000 By Kate Northrop A man from Massachusetts is suing the New Hampshire Lottery Commission following a claim that the Lottery owes him either a gold bar or about $750,000, the approximate equivalent of a standard gold bar's worth. Robert Martel of Ipswich, Massachusetts purchased a losing My Big Million! scratch-off ticket for $20 at a Market Basket supermarket in Seabrook, New Hampshire in August. However, he's claiming tha
Dec 9, 2020, 5:27 pm - Lottery News

50 players win Massachusetts Lottery jackpotNews Story
New state record for most players to win a top prize By Kate Northrop 50 players walked away from the Mass Cash drawing on Sunday, Dec. 6 with a claim to the $100,000 top prize, breaking the state's previous all-time record of 34 jackpot winners in one drawing. Mass Cash is one of the Massachusetts Lottery's popular nightly draw games where players choose five numbers from a pool of 35 for a dollar a play. 50 players across the state did just that after the ball drawing machine produced
Dec 8, 2020, 4:40 pm - Lottery News

New Jersey scammer defrauds 3 elderly women of $675,000News Story
Lotteries urge players to be wary of the telltale signs you are being scammed By Kate Northrop A scammer from New Jersey tricked three elderly women across the country into sending her over $675,000 by convincing them that they owed prepaid taxes as a prerequisite for claiming a prize that didn't exist. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, Shanile Lyle, 27, of Orange was charged on Monday with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after wrongly convincing her v
Dec 4, 2020, 2:39 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery to update Lotto gameNews Story
Changes coming to the Florida Lottery's most popular game By Kate Northrop The Florida Lottery announced they will be making changes this week to their most popular game, Florida Lotto. Introduced in 1988, the game that has awarded over $10.3 billion in prizes won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Instead, the Lottery will be introducing some changes related to the player experience, odds and prizes, and look of the game starting this Thursday, Oct. 8. While Florida Lotto is an esta
Oct 6, 2020, 2:12 pm - Lottery News

UPDATE: Florida winner whose ticket was lost in mail gets her prizeNews Story
Florida Lottery did receive the ticket after all; USPS tracking still shows undelivered By Kate Northrop Every lottery player's worst nightmare came true for a Florida woman whose ticket was supposedly lost in the mail by the United States Postal Service over a month ago. After telling her she would have to forfeit her $1,000 prize and then awarding it to another player, the Florida Lottery looked again and discovered the winning ticket was in their possession after all. Sue Burgess, 62
Oct 2, 2020, 10:47 am - Lottery News

Lottery nightmare: Florida woman's prize is forfeited after postal service loses winning ticketNews Story
Winner doesn't have much hope of claiming her prize after messy debacle By Kate Northrop It's every lottery winner's worst nightmare in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic your winning ticket getting lost in the mail. Sadly, that's exactly what happened to a Florida woman whose certified mail containing a ticket worth $1,000 was lost by the U.S. Postal Service. Worse, the Florida Lottery said her prize was forfeited and awarded to someone else. Since claim offices have closed or limited
Sep 30, 2020, 5:19 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lotto jackpot grows to largest in a decadeNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Texas Lottery's premier in-state jackpot game, Lotto Texas, has now gone 65 drawings without a top prize winner, generating a jackpot that is the largest the game has seen in more than a decade. With no jackpot-winning tickets sold for the Aug. 29, 2020 drawing, the game's jackpot prize has grown to an estimated $36.75 million for the Sept. 2, 2020 drawing the largest jackpot since May 29, 2010 drawing when the game boasted an advertised $97 million jackpot prize. W
Aug 31, 2020, 1:52 pm - Lottery News

Washington Lottery making changes to Hit 5 gameNews Story
Lottery reveals adjustments to Hit 5 a week after announcing rebranding of its Daily Game By Kate Northrop The Washington Lottery revealed modifications to its popular Hit 5 lottery game just a week after announcing its rebranding of Daily Game to Pick 3 . Starting Sunday, August 30, players will see those changes in effect. Currently, Hit 5 offers drawings three times a week and for a chance to win a minimum starting jackpot of $100,000. At the end of this month, the drawings will be r
Aug 19, 2020, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery releases first lottery game based on real-time horse racingNews Story
By Kate Northrop If you're a fan of the Kentucky Derby, or just horse racing in general, you might want to try out the Kentucky Lottery's latest game. Yesterday, the Kentucky Lottery announced that the first-ever lottery game based on real-time horse racing results has officially launched statewide. Win Place Show is the first of its kind, nodding to the state's signature thoroughbred industry and featuring races across the country. Players who purchase a $2 lottery ticket will see three r
Aug 18, 2020, 2:32 pm - Lottery News