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Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

14 friends split $400,000 Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Fifteen friends who have been playing New Mexico Lottery games as a pool for six years claimed a $400,000 Powerball prize on Monday. The friends mostly co-workers at Albuquerque Public Schools pooled $28 to buy tickets for the June 7 Powerball drawing. They purchased 14 tickets at $1 each and then spent an additional $1 to add Power Play to each wager. Power Play multiplies non-jackpot prizes between two and five times, depending on the Power Play number drawn. On Sunday morning, the f
Jun 11, 2008, 9:15 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery 'whips up' Indiana Jones scratch gameNews Story
New game coincides with release of Indiana Jones movie later this month When the latest Indiana Jones movie makes its debut later this month, lottery players in New Mexico will be able to continue the movie characters' quest for fortune by picking up the latest scratch game. New Mexico lottery players will have a much safer archaeological adventure than the movie characters however, as they can dig for gold with just a spare quarter, and signing the back of the card is all it takes to keep
May 8, 2008, 3:11 pm - Lottery News

Anniversary: N.D. Lottery reflects back on last four yearsNews Story
Four years ago today, North Dakota launched it's own lottery. At the time only Powerball was available for purchase in the state. Since then, three new games have been added. Each one of the North Dakota Lottery's games are run by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which is famous for creating the first nation-wide multi-state lottery game, Powerball (formerly Lotto America). The North Dakota Lottery does not conduct any of the drawings itself. It's estimated by June 13th of
Mar 26, 2008, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery's delicious new scratch gameNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery's latest scratch-off game looks good enough to eat. The $10,000 Hershey's Milk Chocolate instant scratch-off game is inspired by the candy manufacturer that produced the first affordable milk chocolate candy bar more than a century ago. Available now, the $2 game features top prizes of $10,000. The game's ticket is a replica of Hershey's well-recognized chocolate-brown and silver-foil candy wrapper. In the play area, 10 potential winning numbers are concealed
Mar 26, 2008, 10:51 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $230 millionNews Story
The jackpot in America's Game continues to grow, as do the lines at the lottery ticket counters. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $230 million, with a cash option of $113.6 Million. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 3 lucky tickets in New Mexico (1) and South Carolina (2) matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $400,000 cash each. Thirteen other winners matched
Mar 10, 2008, 9:27 am - Lottery News

New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Some lottery winners missing their jackpotsNews Story
True story: Elderly man reads the newspaper every morning in the bathroom. He dies. Widow picks up the old papers, finds a Powerball ticket. Her kids insist: Mom, check it out. She does just in time! Widow claims a $100,000 prize the day before the ticket expires. That story from Karen Emery, deputy director of the Arizona Lottery is a rare happy ending in the history of long-lost lottery tickets. More than a half-billion dollars in lottery prizes went uncollected last y
Dec 6, 2007, 7:14 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery introduces peppermint-scented holiday scratch gameNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery last week introduced a new scratch game that is certain to be a hot gift item for lottery players this holiday season. A scented Scratcher game from the New Mexico Lottery is available now to holiday shoppers seeking fun surprises for stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, greeting cards and those ever-practical and predictable presents of sweat socks and underwear. The peppermint-scented Candy Cane Magic conceals 10 numbers under images of red-and-white candy mints.
Nov 20, 2007, 10:40 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery signs 7-year contract with IntralotNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery today awarded a contract for a new computer gaming system to Georgia-based Intralot, ending a competitive bidding process that started more than two and a half years ago. Over the life of the seven-year contract, the lottery will pay Intralot a base price of 1.50 percent or $18.2 million on projected total net sales of $1.15 billion. Intralot's base price includes ticket sale and validation terminals for 1,100 lottery retailers statewide as well as related peripher
Nov 20, 2007, 9:42 am - Lottery News