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Couple finds winning $1.8M lottery ticket while cleaning house for Thanksgiving
Claims prize two weeks before expiration
Harold and Tina Ehrenberg hit the jackpot literally as they tidied up their Mandeville, Louisiana, home this week while preparing to host a Thanksgiving crowd. On a nightstand in their bedroom, Tina stumbled upon a few forgotten lottery tickets and one was a winning ticket that entitled them to a $1.8 million jackpot.
But that's not even the craziest part. It turns out the pair claimed the prize just in the nick of time. Winnings for draw-style lott
Nov 23, 2018, 8:58 am - Lottery News
NJ Pick 6 lottery jackpot climbs to highest amount in 14 years
$25.2 million grand prize to be drawn Thursday
The jackpot for the New Jersey Lottery's Pick 6 drawing has quietly climbed to $25.2 million making it the largest prize the game has offered in more than 14 years.
That may seem like a paltry sum compared to the multi-state Powerball and Mega Millions games, which now have minimums jackpots of $40 million. But the odds of winning the Pick 6 jackpot are much better at about 1 in 14 million compared to Powerball (1 in 292 million) and Mega Mill
Nov 7, 2018, 8:01 pm - Lottery News
NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot jumps to 9-year high
$21.3 million up for grabs Monday
By Todd Northrop
With the multi-state Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games stealing players' attention these days, New Jersey's popular Pick 6 game has been quietly rolling to levels seen around once a decade.
When nobody won Thursday's Pick 6 drawing, the new jackpot for Monday, Oct. 15 was set at $21.3 million. It is the largest New Jersey Pick 6 jackpot since a $24.3 million jackpot was won on Jun. 4, 2009, making the current jackpot the largest
Oct 12, 2018, 10:47 am - Lottery News
Audit reveals 'questionable' Colorado Lottery wins
A handful of people seem to have been winning the Colorado Lottery a bit more often than the odds would dictate, raising the specter of possible wrongdoing, a state audit revealed Monday.
That audit showed that some individuals, including one licensed Lottery retailer, have won several high-dollar prizes over the past three years, raising concerns with the Colorado Auditor's Office that something could be amiss.
One person won $600 or more from the Lottery's Pick 3 game 47 times over a th
Sep 25, 2018, 9:16 am - Lottery News
NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot highest in 4 years
$16.7 million drawing tonight
By Todd Northrop
New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey is urging New Jersey Lottery players to get their Pick 6 game tickets as early as possible in advance of the Thursday, September 13 drawing for the $16.7 million jackpot.
This is the largest Pick 6 jackpot since June 2014, and the fourth largest in 10 years. The jackpot has been growing since February 19, 2018 and is ready to be won soon by a lucky New Jersey Lottery player. The lotte
Sep 13, 2018, 8:28 am - Lottery News
Kentucky Lottery offers new "1-off" wagering options
5 Card Cash game also gets enhancements
By Todd Northrop
Kentucky Pick 3 and Pick 4 lottery players now have an option to win just by getting close the numbers drawn.
Last week, starting on July 29, the Kentucky Lottery added a new feature for the Pick 3 and Pick 4 games which allows players to win prizes if their numbers are one digit higher or lower than the winning numbers drawn.
1-Off is a new wager type for Pick 3 and Pick 4. A player can select the 1-Off feature at the time of
Aug 6, 2018, 4:11 pm - Lottery News
Memo: Iowa Lottery kept selling games after security warning
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
Lottery tickets will not be sold in South Carolina for more than 12 hours this weekend
You're out of luck if you planned on buying Powerball or Pick 3 tickets in South Carolina on Mother's Day morning.
Stores will stop selling tickets for computerized lottery games including Mega Millions and Palmetto Cash 5 at 11:45 p.m. Saturday as the state switches to a new contractor's computer system.
Exactly when stores will start selling again is unclear, but it will be sometime Sunday afternoon, more than 12 hours after going dark, state lottery Director Hogan Brown said. The lotte
May 10, 2018, 11:02 am - Lottery News
MUSL issues report about computerized drawing failures in Arizona
One machine was broken, the other generated 'apparently valid results'
By Todd Northrop
The Arizona Lottery released the report last month from the Multi-State Lottery Association's (MUSL) investigation of a computerized drawing malfunction that caused the same winning numbers to be generated in successive drawings.
When lottery drawings are discussed or envisioned by members of the public, one imagines a spinning drum of numbered balls from which the lucky winning numbers are drawn. I
Apr 11, 2018, 9:45 am - Lottery News
Powerball sales drop busts NJ Lottery's 7-year winning streak
Lottery sales in New Jersey fell for the first in seven years in 2017 led by a sharp by decline in revenue from Powerball tickets, though scratch-off games remain the state's biggest money maker, according to the New Jersey Lottery's annual report.
The lottery sold $3.186 billion in tickets for all games about $103 million less than in fiscal year 2016. The lottery still contributed $994 million to education and social programs last year, up from $987 million the previous year.
Sales of
Jan 26, 2018, 5:00 pm - Lottery News