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Wisconsin Lottery starts midday drawingsNews Story
Later evening draw times for Pick 3, Pick 4 By Todd Northrop Wisconsin Lottery fans now have more opportunities to win big, with three of its games now drawing twice per day. The state's Pick 3, Pick 4, and All or Nothing games will all receive new midday drawings, in addition to their current evening drawings. This brings Wisconsin games in line with most other state lotteries that already offer multiple daily drawings of popular games. Now the only remaining states without midday d
Jun 14, 2020, 9:55 am - Lottery News

N.C. man wins $10 million from scratch-off lottery ticketNews Story
Iron worker's big win is the largest scratch-off lottery prize in the state By Kate Northrop On his way home from work, Wade Harmon purchased some lottery tickets at the Big Boy's Truck Stop on Bagley Road in Kenly. He originally stopped to try his luck on the Pick 3 and Pick 4 lottery games. His decision to tack on an additional $30 scratch-off ticket to his purchase awarded him the $10 million top prize, the largest scratch-off prize in the state. In a news release by lottery official
May 18, 2020, 4:38 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery now using computerized drawingsNews Story
Coronavirus claims another victim: Real lottery drawings By Todd Northrop Starting today, you will no longer be able to watch how the Kentucky Lottery draws its daily numbers games because the drawings now take place inside a computer program. The daily Pick 3, Pick 4, and CashBall 225 games are all transitioned to computerized drawings starting Monday, and will no longer be drawn using balls and machines. Instead, a dedicated computer system known as a random number generator will rand
Apr 13, 2020, 9:11 am - Lottery News

Record number of people win SC Lottery Pick 4 gameNews Story
SC Lottery pays out more than $3.4 million We now know that a lot of people in South Carolina have the same strategy for the Pick 4 lottery game and it just won them a lot of money. Nearly 1,400 people won the South Carolina Education Lottery's Pick 4 midday drawing Saturday with the same set of numbers: 2-2-2-2. It was a record number of winners for the Pick 4 and a record payout, the Lottery announced in a statement. Lottery spokeswoman Holli Armstrong said that people started lining
Oct 2, 2019, 12:14 pm - Lottery News

N.J. man who previously won $2M on lottery scratch-off wins another $250K jackpotNews Story
Two years after winning $2 million in a New Jersey Lottery scratch-off game, a New Jersey man hit it big again this time with a scratch-off ticket that proved to be worth $250,000. Freddie Robinson of Newark bought several of the $10 tickets at C-Town Supermarkets on 18th Avenue in Newark and took them home to check. He scanned the first few on his phone with the New Jersey Lottery app and won nothing. Robinson then won $50 with the second-to-last ticket before capturing the $250,000 jackpot
Sep 20, 2019, 5:49 pm - Lottery News

NC Lottery pays out record $7.8 million in Pick 4 drawingNews Story
In the lottery world, four zeros can win a lot of money. More than 2,000 players won the Pick 4 lottery in North Carolina on Saturday when they all chose the winning numbers 0-0-0-0. About half the 2,014 winners bought $1 tickets and will get $5,000, while the other half got 50-cent tickets and will receive $2,500, lottery officials said. The total payout, including other winners, will be about $7.8 million, the largest ever for the Pick 4 in the state. The NC Education Lottery said
Jun 25, 2019, 6:46 am - Lottery News

N.J. woman wins $4M Pick 6 lottery jackpot with loose change she found around the houseNews Story
A New Jersey woman won a $4 million Pick 6 lottery drawing after buying two tickets with loose change she found scattered about her Morris County home. Wanda M., of Roxbury, watched the April 29th drawing on television and showed up the next day at New Jersey Lottery headquarters in Lawrence with her son and daughter to claim her jackpot, officials said. Wanda bought a pair of $1 quick pick tickets at Valero, a gas station on Route 46 in Netcong. She said she yelled out, we won the big one
May 7, 2019, 9:32 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery to add new Fireball feature to Pick 3 and Daily 4News Story
Replaces Sum It Up feature Texas Lottery players will soon have more chances to win when they play Pick 3 and Daily 4 by purchasing Fireball, a new add-on feature for both daily draw games. Fireball will replace the Sum It Up! feature starting Sunday, April 28. The first drawings for Pick 3 plus Fireball and Daily 4 plus Fireball will be Monday, April 29. We are excited to refresh Pick 3 and Daily 4 with the launch of the Fireball add-on feature, said Gary Grief, executive director of
Apr 26, 2019, 8:53 am - Lottery News

Virginia woman wins $150,000 lottery payout in one Pick 4 drawingNews Story
Some people have all the luck. In February, that person was Deborah Brown. When Deborah Brown bought 20 Pick 4 tickets from the Virginia Lottery all with the same four digits for the same drawing she just had a feeling. A couple of times during the day, I saw those numbers, she said. A little while later, when she bought 10 more plays again for the same drawing with that same number combination (1-0-3-1) she said she was really feeling it. Turns out, that feeling was right! When
Mar 10, 2019, 10:16 am - Lottery News

NM Lottery Pick 4 computerized drawing glitch made many tickets worthlessNews Story
Players can get a refund IF they held onto losing tickets By Todd Northrop When the New Mexico Lottery introduced its latest lottery draw game, Pick 4, in early February, players had no idea that many of the tickets they purchased were completely worthless with no chance of winning. That's because the game's computerized drawings were incorrectly programmed, making combinations with repeat digits impossible to be drawn. Only combinations in which every digit was different were able to b
Feb 21, 2019, 7:25 pm - Lottery News