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Michigan Lottery adds Double Play 2nd-chance option for Fantasy 5, Lotto 47News Story
So you didn't hit the jackpot on Fantasy 5 or Lotto 47? A new option being offered by the Michigan Lottery is giving players a second chance to win big and doubles non-jackpot prizes. The lottery's new Double Play option, which costs $1 more per panel per draw, begins Sunday at Michigan lottery retailers. Here's how the add-on game works: Double Play drawings will take place after each Lotto 47 and Fantasy 5 drawing. Another set of winning numbers will be drawn from the pool for each
Jan 19, 2019, 6:55 am - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery considering switch to computerized drawingsNews Story
Apparently new CEO looking to make things even worse at beleaguered lottery By Jon Lender The Connecticut Lottery Corp. (CLC) is quietly examining possible changes to the drawing procedures by which it selects winning numbers in its various games from the daily Play 3 game on up and one option under consideration is to discontinue live TV drawings that have been broadcast on local stations since 1977. Another option could be that, in addition to taking the drawings off TV, the lottery w
Dec 30, 2018, 10:04 am - Lottery News

Investigation finds lottery scamming Tipton brothers have repaid virtually nothingNews Story
By Jason Clayworth and Rachel Denny Clow Two brothers who spearheaded the biggest lottery scam in U.S. history have repaid less than $1,400 in restitution despite owning property worth nearly $2 million, a Des Moines Register and Corpus Christi Caller Times investigation has found. Between them, Eddie and Tommy Tipton have admitted rigging winning drawings in at least five states, including Iowa, worth a combined $24 million. But they have barely made a dent in the more than $2.4 millio
Dec 27, 2018, 8:52 am - Lottery News

8 years after buying $10.8 million ticket, lottery winner says life is 'marvelous'News Story
A Pennsylvania couple who took home more than $10 million in Delaware's first Hot Lotto jackpot eight years ago traded in their mobile home for a four-bedroom house but say their good fortune hasn't changed them. In August 2009, Robert Crowther already had retired from the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Newark, Delaware, where he had worked for more than 30 years. Since the Crowthers opted to take the jackpot as a lump sum of $10,774,362 rather than as a deferred annuity, life has been marvelous,
Nov 12, 2018, 4:09 pm - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery is now offering simulated sports games, much to casinos' dismayNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery on Tuesday rolled out the latest addition to its line-up with the introduction of a simulated sports games that may appeal to football and auto racing fans. Called Xpress Football and Xpress Car Racing, these realistic animation of sporting events allow players to bet on an outcome of a random computerized drawings that occur every five minutes. Tickets to play the games can be purchased and checked at any lottery retailer. Those who want to watch the drawing resul
Aug 17, 2018, 11:48 am - Lottery News

Memo: Iowa Lottery kept selling games after security warningNews Story
A newly unsealed memo shows the Iowa Lottery kept marketing four popular games despite an August 2015 warning from its security chief that their integrity was compromised. The memo was written following the trial of Eddie Tipton, who was convicted of rigging a Hot Lotto jackpot worth $16 million. Steve Bogle, its vice president of security, recommended that the lottery immediately suspend sales of Hot Lotto, Pick 3, Pick 4, and All or Nothing. He told CEO Terry Rich, we cannot allow the ci
Aug 1, 2018, 2:27 pm - Lottery News

Winning week for Georgia Cash 3 and Cash 4 lottery playersNews Story
Georgia Lottery players are enjoying a winning streak with triples and quads falling in Cash 3 and Cash 4 within the past week. Lucky players won a total of $3,285,616 in Wednesday's midday Cash 3 drawing with the winning combo 8-8-8. In addition, thousands of Cash 4 players quadrupled their luck twice over the weekend when two sets of quads fell, winning a total of $6,149,740 in prizes in the June 8 midday drawing and $5,755,887 in the June 9 evening drawing. Winning numbers for the Ju
Jun 14, 2018, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

Glitch delays live Powerball drawingNews Story
Powerball officials suffered an embarrassing but short-lived glitch when the regularly scheduled, live drawing had to be shelved because of unexplained technical difficulties. Players who stayed up late Saturday night to learn the lucky numbers probably should have just gone to bed: When the numbers finally were drawn, there were no winners of the jackpot estimated at a cool $215 million. Because of a technical problem tonight, we are unable to bring you the Powerball drawing at this time
May 7, 2018, 7:26 am - Lottery News

The man who cracked the lotteryNews Story
Crime story: A recounting of the biggest lottery scandal in history The file landed on Rob Sand's desk with something less than a thud. Despite holding the contents of an investigation still open after more than two years, the file was barely half an inch thick. Happy birthday, his boss said. It was not Rob Sand's birthday. His boss, an Iowa deputy attorney general named Thomas H. Miller, was retiring in July 2014 after nearly three decades of prosecuting everything from murder to fraud. H
May 3, 2018, 2:49 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery wins International Gaming-Compliance award for work in lottery rigging investigationNews Story
Long-running case culminated in 2017 guilty pleas from three men The Iowa Lottery has won an international gaming-compliance award for its work in the long-running lottery jackpot investigation that uncovered fraud against U.S. lotteries and resulted in guilty pleas from three men. GamblingCompliance on Wednesday named the Iowa Lottery its 2018 recipient for outstanding achievement in compliance. The organization's annual awards that recognize excellence in 11 categories focused on regulat
Apr 19, 2018, 10:29 am - Lottery News