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Colorado Lottery launches new jackpot game next weekNews Story
The Colorado Lottery will launch its first new Jackpot game in nine years next week. Called MatchPlay, the game will offer a rolling, $100,000 jackpot and more ways to win than the Lottery's current Jackpot games. Drawings for MatchPlay will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays at approximately 7:40 p.m.. The first tickets for the game will be sold on Sun., Feb. 21, and the first drawing will be held on Tue., Feb. 23. MatchPlay is a fresh, new game that will provide our players with fun fea
Feb 17, 2010, 12:11 pm - Lottery News

Iowa lottery offering bonus holiday drawingNews Story
Officials with the Iowa Lottery say those playing holiday scratch-off games shouldn't throw away their tickets if they lose. Terry Rich, the chief executive of the Iowa Lottery, says for the first time this year, holiday tickets that aren't winners are eligible for other prizes. Rich says players can enter the ticket serial number online to play a bonus game. The lottery is calling the promotion Tech the Halls and Rich says electronics and cash prizes are available. Players can enter th
Dec 28, 2009, 11:12 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery unveils Redskins scratch ticketsNews Story
The Virginia Lottery and the Washington Redskins unveiled a new $50,000,000 Redskins Mania scratch ticket that will go on sale in August, in time for the start of the 2009 football season. This is one of the first to be launched by a state lottery and an NFL team, according to a news release from the Virginia Lottery, taking advantage of a new NFL rule that allows teams to sign licensing deals with state-sponsored lotteries. The Redskins went all out for the announcement, displaying their
Jun 10, 2009, 7:28 pm - Lottery News

Players can get credit for Iowa lottery errorNews Story
The Iowa Lottery says it will pay qualified players after an operator error on its computer system vendor interrupted its Big Beepin' Deal promotion. Officials say any player who made a qualifying purchase on Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday can receive a $20 bonus by mailing the ticket to the lottery. Officials say the error prevented the promotion from running for a time. The Big Beepin' Deal began May 3. For every 20th purchase statewide of a $10 Powerball with a Power Play option,
May 27, 2009, 10:53 am - Lottery News

New Hampshire Lottery celebrates 45th anniversaryNews Story
Trailblazing N.H. had first-in-nation lottery A tragic mistake. A scandalous experiment in state financing. The shame of New Hampshire. Opponents of expanded gambling argue that it would hurt the state's image and cause more problems than it would solve. But the quotes above aren't from the current legislative debate; they're from newspaper editorials written in 1964, when New Hampshire launched the nation's first legal state-run lottery. As the state considers allowing video slot mac
Mar 18, 2009, 9:16 pm - Lottery News

Lawmakers steamed about lottery promotionNews Story
The Maine Lottery is getting strong, bipartisan criticism for its Funds For Fuel promotion as lawmakers say the lottery should not be using Mainers' fear of high fuel prices this winter to sell more lottery tickets. I think it is misleading, Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden, a member of the Legislature's Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee that has oversight of the lottery, said this week. It almost sounds like some of the money will go to fuel assistance. It doesn't. It is just another way to
Nov 14, 2008, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawingNews Story
A special promotion is giving Missouri Lottery Pick 3 players a shot at doubling their chances of winning cash in the Midday drawing. From Oct. 19 through Nov. 15, the Lottery will draw the winning Pick 3 numbers along with a second drawing from among three white balls and one orange ball. If the orange ball is drawn, the Lottery will draw a bonus set of Pick 3 numbers, giving players a second chance to win cash to win from the same ticket purchase. Even though there are no balls utilized
Oct 15, 2008, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery starts 2-for-1 Fantasy 5 FridaysNews Story
The Georgia Lottery began a new promotion of its Fantasy 5 game Friday, increasing players' chances to win the Pick 5-style lotto game. Every Friday from October 10, 2008 through January 16, 2009 is Fantasy 5 Friday with a buy one, get one free promotion. A free Fantasy 5 Quick Pick ticket for the next drawing will be automatically printed following any Fantasy 5 ticket purchased on Friday, through the end of the promotion in January. Fantasy 5 is a Georgia Lottery game in which players
Oct 11, 2008, 3:17 pm - Lottery News

Woman bets $50,000 of her lottery win for chance at $1 millionNews Story
It's been said lightning never strikes twice, but Judith Yap is betting 50 grand that the old maxim is wrong. Last month the Glen Ellyn nurse assistant won $150,000 in the Illinois Lottery, and now she's hoping to parlay it into $1 million in a single, 1-in-6 drawing. If she loses, she'll walk away with $100,000. Yap will learn whether the gamble pays off at a lottery drawing at the end of September at U.S. Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side. It's certainly a risk not many people wo
Aug 8, 2008, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery gives players a second chanceNews Story
Non-winning tickets can be replayed for a chance to win $1 million To launch its Replay for Riches summer promotion, the Illinois Lottery invited people across the state of Illinois to share one moment in their lives that deserved a second chance. A camera crew set to the streets and talked to nearly 100 people about their second chance moments. Some responses included: I would have called the guy that gave me his number. I wouldn't have re-gifted. I received a little mug and the
Jun 4, 2008, 1:05 pm - Lottery News