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Connecticut Lottery launches its first $50 scratch-off ticket
New game features best overall odds at winning any prize
By Kate Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery announced the launch of its first $50 scratch-off ticket ever, with the best overall odds of winning any prize in its game repertoire.
Lottery players in Connecticut can now try their luck with the Connecticut Lottery's new $50 scratch-off game, the most expensive ticket offered in the state.
Previously, ticket prices for instant games in Connecticut ranged from $1 to $30, but that h
Dec 14, 2023, 7:46 am - Lottery News
Connecticut Lottery to move headquarters
Lottery announces temporary claims schedule to accommodate move
By Kate Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery will be moving its headquarters and claims center to a new facility this month.
On Thursday, the Connecticut Lottery announced that it will be relocating to a new location and posted a temporary in-person prize claims schedule to accommodate the move.
In May, the Lottery revealed that it's lease for its Rocky Hill headquarters building would be expiring and that it would be co
Aug 21, 2023, 2:01 pm - Lottery News
Connecticut Lottery to relocate headquarters this summer
New location for main lottery operations
By Kate Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery is packing up and moving the location of its headquarters this summer, consolidating its main operations into one building.
Once its lease at the Rocky Hill headquarters is up, the Connecticut Lottery will be moving into a larger building that will be able to accommodate all its main functions and operations.
Right now, the Lottery is situated in a nearly 92,000-square-foot building in Rocky Hill. O
May 29, 2023, 2:19 pm - Lottery News
Connecticut Lottery launches new system, players unable to check tickets
Players and retailers vent frustrations
By Kate Northrop
On Sunday, the Connecticut Lottery launched a new statewide retail system that was years in the making, but the change has left some players and retailers frustrated.
All 2,900 Connecticut Lottery retailers have officially been updated with a new statewide lottery system, but not everyone is finding the transition seamless.
On May 21, 2023, the Lottery did away with its older Connecticut Lottery Corporation (CLC) system, wh
May 26, 2023, 9:48 am - Lottery News
The transformation of Lucky for Life into a computerized daily drawing
How the popular multi-state game evolved
By Kate Northrop
In April, state lotteries participating in the popular multi-state Lucky for Life lottery game announced that the game would be moving from bi-weekly drawings to a once-daily draw format.
Now that the changeover has officially transpired since last Monday, Jul. 19, Lottery Post took a closer look at how and why the game offering players the opportunity to wi n $1,000 a day for life evolved as a whole.
For a little over a week
Jul 28, 2021, 2:12 pm - Lottery News
Lottery scammers steal $1.2 million from one victim
Crook receives six years in prison for crimes of conspiracy and fraud
By Kate Northrop
After stealing over $1 million from one single victim, the leader of a ring of Jamaican scam artists was sentenced Friday to almost six years in prison.
Like any typical scammer, Stieve Fernandez, 35, spent his time deceiving vulnerable individuals and robbing elderly targets of their life savings as part of a high-functioning underground network of lottery fraudsters.
Fernandez was said to h
Jul 12, 2021, 12:45 pm - Lottery News
Connecticut Lottery's Fast Play instant game crashes lottery terminals
Connecticut's newest instant game is so popular, lottery terminals can't keep up
By Kate Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery's newest game is attracting so many players that lottery terminals are slowing or shutting down.
Fast Play, the Lottery's newest instant game, was launched about a month ago. Since then, the game has attracted players across the state and generated about $5 million in sales. In fact, the game has received so much attention, that lottery terminals at retailers and the
Aug 17, 2020, 6:19 pm - Lottery News
In reversal, CT Lottery approves $205K settlement in whistleblower case filed by ex-security chief
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. reversed itself Thursday and approved a legal settlement that it had spurned last month with one of its former top officials, who had claimed in a long-running human rights complaint and a lawsuit that he'd suffered retaliation for blowing the whistle on problems at the CLC dating back five years.
In voting 8-2 to pay $205,000 to former lottery security chief Alfred DuPuis, the CLC's board of directors closed the book on one of several lingering legal disputes th
Jun 14, 2020, 9:49 am - Lottery News
$205K settlement reached, then rejected, in CT Lottery whistleblower case
Old disputes die hard at the Connecticut Lottery Corp. Here is the story of one of them.
A bitter legal dispute between the CLC and one of its former top officials was on the verge of being resolved 2 months ago. The opposing parties signed off March 10 on truce terms ranging from a $205,000 settlement price down to the exact wording of a script that would be read to any news reporter who asked about the case.
Signing a sheet of paper outlining the settlement terms were lottery CEO Greg Sm
May 22, 2020, 10:51 am - Lottery News
CT Lottery moving operations after employee tests positive for COVID-19
A Connecticut Lottery Corp. employee who had been self-isolating at home has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting lottery officials to announce they are temporarily moving operations from the lottery's Rocky Hill headquarters to a backup facility they declined to identify.
The move is effective Thursday.
Out of an abundance of caution, the Rocky Hill location will be closed for deep cleaning following today's notice of an employee testing positive for COVID-19, the lottery announced We
Apr 2, 2020, 1:53 pm - Lottery News