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N.C. Lottery starts Pick 5 game FridayNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery turns seven months old next week, and its players continue to try and cash in. On Oct. 6, the Carolina Pick 3, a game that has a top prize of $500 and operates similarly to Powerball but gives players a better chance to win, was released. On Friday, the Carolina Cash 5 game will be released. Tracy Montgomery, a cashier at Spinx convenience store in Kinston, said lottery sales have skyrocketed since the release of the Pick 3 game. We've sold more
Oct 24, 2006, 7:48 am - Lottery News

New N.C. lottery game exceeds expectationsNews Story
Lottery officials say North Carolina's newest game sold more tickets than expected this weekend. Carolina Pick 3 launched Friday with its first drawing. Those who know the pick 'em games were fired up to see the new game start last week. It gives you more opportunity to win, plus it gives you the opportunity to spend more money, put it back into the state and back into the schools, lottery player Shawn James said. More money was spent than lottery officials expected. Through Sunday, s
Oct 10, 2006, 9:45 am - Lottery News

New N.C. lottery games debut this monthNews Story
First Pick 3 drawing this Friday Two new North Carolina lottery games make their debut this month. The game Carolina Pick 3 launches Friday and lets you win as much as $500 by picking three numbers in a daily drawing. OK, so you're doing 50/50's at $1 and we're doing four different games. Wake Forest resident Sam Boone got a crash course Monday on how to play the new game. A lot of numbers to choose from, you have three numbers, a lot of chances of winning, Boone said. Lottery
Oct 4, 2006, 12:29 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma Cash 5 lottery game on sale todayNews Story
Starting today, stores that participate in Oklahoma's lottery games will be selling tickets for a new Pick 5 game. Lottery commission officials said Oklahoma's Cash 5 tickets go on sale today, September 1, with the first drawing to be held on Tuesday, September 5. It works similarly to Powerball, officials said, except players only select 5 numbers out of a pool of 36. Tickets cost $1 each and offer buyers a chance to win a grand prize of up to $25,000. Pleayers can also win $500 for m
Sep 1, 2006, 10:57 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery to roll out 3 new games in OctoberNews Story
Numbers games coming sooner than expected because of demand October will be a busy month for the N.C. Education Lottery. That's when the state will debut Pick 3 and 5 games and plans to start selling a controversial scratch-off game featuring the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes. The pick-numbers games are coming a little sooner than expected because of high demand from players and retailers, state lottery director Tom Shaheen said. The N.C. lottery started just five months ago.
Aug 18, 2006, 3:48 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery announces dates for pick 3, pick 5News Story
The state lottery announced this morning the dates for the start of its next two major games Pick 3 and Pick 5 numbers games. The Pick 3 game will begin Oct. 6. The Pick 5 game will start Oct. 27. The games are played similar to the multi-state Powerball game, but with fewer numbers to choose from, better odds and lower prize amounts. Drawings will be held every day of the week. Top prize for picking the exact numbers in the Pick 3 game is $500. Top prize in the Pick 5 game will
Aug 16, 2006, 1:54 pm - Lottery News

A million bad reasons to voteNews Story
Why the Arizona voter lottery is a terrible idea By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Arizona voters will face an embarrassment of electoral riches this fall, when as many as 19 proposed laws appear on the state ballot for their approval. Among the measures to be voted on are a 50 percent increase in state legislators' salaries, a constitutional amendment allowing bail to be denied to illegal aliens , and the designation of English as the state's official language. But one Arizona initiative ha
Aug 2, 2006, 9:41 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery's 'Pocket slots' a hit with playersNews Story
Battery-powered game has nearly sold out after little more than a month, so Kansas Lottery plans more. The Kansas Lottery's pocket slots game is approaching sellout after just five weeks of retail sales. The battery-powered Super 7's instant-winner game is flying off the shelves, said lottery director Ed Van Petten, and two more batches, including a poker-themed version, were ordered this week for sales through the end of the year. Kansas last month became the second state to offe
Jul 28, 2006, 8:57 am - Lottery News

N.J. Gov. wants video lotteryNews Story
Is Corzine trying to make up for his throwing away millions during lottery/casino shutdown? New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, who cost the state millions of dollars in tax revenue by shutting down the state's lottery and casino games in a move to force legislators to accept massive tax increases, proposed Tuesday that New Jersey should add video lottery terminals. (See Budget Process Questioned After Shutdown, below.) The terminals have long been proposed for the Meadowlands and ot
Jul 26, 2006, 7:02 pm - Lottery News

First Ever Multi-State Video Lottery Game Up and RunningNews Story
Jackpot Over $540,000 and Growing The lotteries of Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia have begun operation of America's first multi-state video lottery game. Ca$hola (pronounced cash-O-lah) features a shared prize pool that will create the progressive jackpot game for players in all three states; a jackpot that currently has an annuity value of over $540,000 and grows until won. Sales of the Ca$hola game have begun at video lottery terminals (VLT's) located at tracks in the thr
Jul 26, 2006, 5:23 pm - Lottery News