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NJ Changes Cash 5 GameNews Story
The New Jersey State Lottery announced improvements to its Jersey Cash 5 game, starting with the September 15 drawing, that are designed to produce higher jackpots and more player excitement. Since its inception in 1992, Jersey Cash 5 has served as a roll-down game, whereby if there was no top winner (five out of five numbers), the jackpot was divided into the remaining prize pools (four out of five numbers). Jersey Cash 5 now will change to a roll over structure, where the jackpot grows an
Sep 22, 2003, 4:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $50 MillionNews Story
The excitement is rising along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 367,039 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.8 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $50 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, September 24 drawing will be an estimated $26.5 million.The numbers drawn were: 11, 13, 28, 31, 33, and the
Sep 22, 2003, 4:08 am - Lottery News

Paul gets brusque farewell from Georgia lottery boardNews Story
When Rebecca Paul gave three weeks' notice that she was stepping down as head of Georgia's lottery to start Tennessee's, her bosses showered her with praise and wished her well.Days later, the lottery's board of directors barred Paul from her desk and declared it wanted the $500,000-a-year executive gone yesterday literally.Officially, Paul's last day on the job became Sept. 5, two days before she phoned Georgia's governor and told him she had accepted the job of Tennessee Education Lottery Corp
Sep 20, 2003, 8:57 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $43 MillionNews Story
Everything surrounding Powerball is growing; the jackpot, the number of players winning prizes, and the amount of prizes being won. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 322,842 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.5 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $43 million.The cash option for the Saturday, September 20 drawing will be an estimated $22.7 million.T
Sep 18, 2003, 6:50 am - Lottery News

Wisc. Lottery validates man's $3.4 million Megabucks ticketNews Story
Wisconsin Lottery officials said Wednesday they had validated a ticket purchased by a New Berlin man as the winner of a $3.4 million Wisconsin Megabucks jackpot earlier this month. They said the ticket purchased at a Clark service station in New Berlin for the Sept. 3 drawing had been presented by Dennis Poppe.The ticket with the numbers four, six, 17, 25, 42 and 48 had been a quick pick selection with the numbers generated by computer rather than picked by the purchaser.The jackpot was the 50
Sep 18, 2003, 6:21 am - Lottery News

Online Lottery Glitch Leads to Cancelled PrizesNews Story
Online scratch-card outfit - tombola.com - has apologised after a software glitch at the weekend led to a large number of gamblers winning the jackpot.Those who took part in the online game couldn't believe their luck when they won up to 5,000 (US$8,050) just for taking part in the i:scratch game.But their euphoria was short-lived when they received an email telling them that the game was null and void.Said the email: I am writing to you in relation to your win on tombola.com over the week
Sep 17, 2003, 11:25 am - Lottery News

$100,000 Powerball prize goes unclaimedNews Story
Someone has lost out on a $100,000 prize in the Powerball lottery game. Last September, someone bought the winning lottery ticket at Larsens Food Pride in Osage.The winner had until 4:30pm Monday to cash in or lose the money, and no one came forward.Iowa lottery officials had plastered reminders on and around Larsens store in the hope of prompting someone to produce that winning ticket.Last year, more than a million and a half dollars went unclaimed in various Iowa lotto games.
Sep 17, 2003, 11:15 am - Lottery News

Georgia businesses not worried Tenn. lottery will hurt local salesNews Story
Rossville, Georgia store owners say they arent worried the Tennessee Lottery, which is expected to launch early next year, will dam the stream of money flowing from Tennessees gamblers.Legislation creating the lottery corporation was signed into law by Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen on June 11, according to the lottery Web site at www.tnlottery.gov.Subsequently, Governor Bredesen announced appointments to the new seven-member lottery board on July 1, the Web site reads. Proceeds from the future sa
Sep 17, 2003, 2:58 am - Lottery News

Lottery persistence turns profitableNews Story
Ellen Crowley is a dedicated Powerball player and, recently, her persistence paid off.After many unsuccessful attempts to get on the Powerball Instant Win television game show, she was finally invited to play.Ellens husband, Bill, stood in for her and, in the end, came away with almost $35,000 and a trip to Las Vegas. I decided that I wanted my husband to stand in for me on the game show, because I dont like to have my picture taken, she said. That was probably the best decision I ever made, s
Sep 17, 2003, 2:50 am - Lottery News

Add-on games stem UK Lottery sales declineNews Story
UK National Lottery sales have stabilized even though the main Lotto draw suffered yet another fall, operator Camelot says.Latest figures show sales across all Lottery games averaged 85 million a week, matching the previous quarter.But they are still a long way down from a peak of around 100 million a week towards the end of the 1990s.Lotto, the main draw, sold around a million fewer tickets a week in April to June this year than in the previous three months - from an average 61 million a wee
Sep 16, 2003, 3:52 am - Lottery News