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N.D. Lottery wrestles with credit card buying optionsNews Story
The North Dakota Lottery's recently announced holiday sale of ticket subscriptions highlights a quirk in its operations. Gamblers are barred from using a credit card to buy tickets, but they may use plastic to play one of the lottery's four games dozens of times over an extended period. Credit card sales are limited to subscriptions, said Chuck Keller, the director of North Dakota's lottery. A subscription allows a gambler to buy a chance to play the same lottery number for 13, 26 or 52 strai
Dec 4, 2007, 7:10 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery searches out more storesNews Story
Amid sluggish sales, officials hope to beef up the number of outlets Griswold's Family Produce sells honeydew and dreams. The combination produce stand and old country store south of Monroe sells apples to zucchini, homemade ice cream and, now, N.C. lottery tickets. Pick up a bag of golden delicious and a chance to become a millionaire. Griswold's is one of the newest, and less typical, retail outlets for Powerball or scratch-and-win tickets. It's also the sort of high-traffic, well-loc
Nov 23, 2007, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery surpasses $1 billion mark in profits for the stateNews Story
The Kansas Lottery has banked its first $1 billion while also marking its 20th anniversary. At ceremonies Friday in Topeka, director Ed Van Petten said sales revenue transferred to the state treasury on Thursday pushed the game's all-time profits over the $1 billion mark. We are thrilled to tell you that the lottery has reached another milestone, he said. The second billion won't take nearly as long after Kansas' state-owned numbers game morphs into state-owned casino operator under a
Nov 12, 2007, 8:19 am - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery Director: Profit losses leveling offNews Story
Sales of South Carolina lottery tickets initially sank as gas prices climbed, but customers seem to have gotten used to paying more at the pump, the state's lottery director said Wednesday. When gas prices climbed above $3 a gallon after Hurricane Katrina, lottery sales at South Carolina gas stations fell sharply, probably because customers felt that they had less pocket change after filling up. But a sample survey of retailers shows convenience store sales have since leveled, director Ernie
Oct 10, 2007, 10:17 pm - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery plans big expansion of keno-style gameNews Story
The Massachusetts state lottery, which fell short of revenue projections last year, is dramatically expanding a keno-style game in a move it estimates could bring in an additional $160 million annually, officials said. The Daily Race Game, in which players can win up to $900 on a $1 bet, will expand from 200 to 1,500 locations across the state, and the graphics will change from cars to horses. Lottery commissioners on Wednesday approved the changes, which should be complete by next spring.
Oct 10, 2007, 7:45 pm - Lottery News

CBS publishes second hatchet job on lotteryNews Story
News outfit intent on slamming lotteries CBS News, currently the lowest-rated broadcast network of the big three , today ran its second story in the past month attempting to dig dirt on lotteries in America. In its latest diatribe, CBS News alleges one of the oldest, most widely-spread lottery myths that lotteries prey on the poor and destitute. The problem is, the myth has been disproved time and again by long-term studies, using scientific means. (See Study proves lottery not '
Oct 8, 2007, 12:19 am - Lottery News

Lottery competition between two border statesNews Story
A close look at the Georgia and Tennessee Lotteries University of Georgia demographer exemplifies general lack of understanding; buys into lottery myth: There aren't people in Brooks Brothers suits holding briefcases standing in line for tickets. Bob Kilgore lives in Jasper, Tenn., but he regularly buys lottery tickets in neighboring Georgia. I started playing the lottery in Georgia when it started (in 1993), and I've just kept buying most of my tickets in Georgia, Mr. Kilgore sai
Oct 5, 2007, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

New $20 Mass. Lottery scratch game off to a record startNews Story
The Massachusetts State Lottery rolled the dice when it launched its first ever $20 instant ticket, the most expensive new product in its history. A week after its big rollout, the gamble already appears to be paying off, with sales of the Billion Dollar Blockbuster off to one of the fastest starts of any ticket in Lottery history. Nearly 2 million tickets have been sold so far, ringing up more than $40 million in sales. That edges two other tickets that in recent years got off to fast sta
Oct 4, 2007, 4:23 pm - Lottery News

Mass. Gov. promises to protect lottery revenueNews Story
Seeking to nullify a major complaint about expanded gaming, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick is pledging to protect state Lottery revenues from being ravaged by casinos. As part of his proposal to establish three casino resorts, including one in Western Massachusetts, Patrick said he will hold harmless the state Lottery, a major source of state aid to cities and towns. The governor said he would cover any loss in lottery revenues with money from a proposed annual 27 percent tax
Sep 26, 2007, 10:52 am - Lottery News

Okla. Lottery Commission struggles to meet its 35% profit requirementNews Story
As a result of the finance and audit committee's dreary budget forecasts for fiscal year 2008, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission is planning to trim costs and attempt to get a key statutory requirement of the commission eliminated. The board plans to try to amend out a requirement that the Lottery Commission post a 35-percent profit in their third year of operations. The board said they are doing all they can to trim operating costs without cutting current staff and advertising expenditures,
Sep 19, 2007, 4:34 pm - Lottery News