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Mass. shop's lottery sales earn visit from State TreasurerNews Story
The line of people which is usually present in front of the lottery machine at The News Shop on Main Street in Winchester, Massacusetts, should be a good indicator that the local store is one of the best in the state when it comes to lottery sales.A few weeks ago, the staff of The News Shop was personally thanked by State Treasurer Tim Cahill for helping to provide revenues for not just Winchester, but the 350 other cities and towns in the commonwealth as well.Kim Cater, owner of The News Shop,
Sep 22, 2005, 9:45 am - Lottery News

High gas prices may be cutting into lottery salesNews Story
The evidence is far from conclusive, but some people in the business think high gasoline prices have cut into lottery sales in New Hampshire.Rick Wisler, executive director of the state Lottery Commission, is among them, at least with respect to instant tickets. He reasons that with prices so high, many drivers are using credit or debit cards to pay for gasoline. That means they don't have cash in hand, which depresses impulse purchases such as instant lottery tickets. We believe, although there
Sep 21, 2005, 4:23 pm - Lottery News

N.D. Lottery chief says gas price might hurt lottery salesNews Story
Higher gasoline prices appear to be slowing lottery ticket sales, the North Dakota lottery director says.Lottery Director Chuck Keller said convenience stores have reported that the rising prices at the pump are affecting the sales of lottery tickets as well as such items as candy and pop. Most of our retailers are truck stops, and C-stores, convenience stores that do distribute fuel, whether it's diesel, gas, or both, Keller said.More promotions are being planned, including one that would allo
Aug 16, 2005, 7:09 am - Lottery News

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsNews Story
Major changes in the game in August should lure players who want bigger jackpots.Powerball players got lucky during the past 12 months, winning lots of smaller multistate jackpots but dampening overall enthusiasm by reducing the number of huge payoffs in the $200 million to $300 million range. The players are just beating the game, Iowa Lottery President Edward Stanek said Monday. We had 11 Powerball jackpot winners the year before, and we have had more than a 50 percent increase for the fisca
Jul 26, 2005, 6:42 pm - Lottery News

Indiana lottery sales decline has officials probing illegal gamesNews Story
The Hoosier Lottery, faced with slumping profits, is struggling to get more people to play ticket games in a world of electronic gambling.In the budget year just ended, lottery officials expect to see about a 5 percent decline in profits, which reached $199 million last year, according to W. Edward Benton, the lottery's chief financial officer.So what's eating into ticket sales? Smaller Powerball jackpots, for one thing, something Hoosier Lottery officials can't control.The approximately 22,00
Jul 11, 2005, 12:06 pm - Lottery News

Internet lottery game not popular with Kansas playersNews Story
Despite a redesign and humorous new commercials, the Kansas eScratch lottery game is still underwhelming players.The lack of success by the Kansas eScratch lottery game illustrates that lottery players do not want a game to be played on the Internet just for the sake of being an online game.Since May, when the game was relaunched and promoted heavily, sales have been 89 percent higher than last year. But the games have still generated only $260,000 in the last month and a half, a mere drop compa
Jul 8, 2005, 12:24 pm - Lottery News

Calif. Lottery Sales Reach Record HighNews Story
People bought more than $3 billion in California Lottery tickets this fiscal year, a record for the nearly 20-year-old games.Officials attributed much of the rise not to the flashy 12-state Mega Millions game that debuted last week, but to a burst in the popularity of Scratchers, in which players scrape a coating from tickets to reveal potential winning numbers.After some of Scratchers' dozens of themed games were tweaked last year to include interactive elements and more-lucrative prizes, their
Jun 30, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions fuels California lottery sales recordNews Story
Californians jumped on the chance to join a multistate lottery by purchasing a record $2.4 million on the first day of sales for the Mega Millions game, state lottery officials said Thursday.The statewide sales Wednesday surpassed the $1.7 million sold on New York s first day in 2002, officials said in a statement.California is the 12th state to join the Mega Millions game, which had a U.S. record $363 million jackpot in May 2000. It also had a $331 million jackpot in April 2002.Players pay $1 f
Jun 24, 2005, 8:57 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery Sales RiseNews Story
UK National Lottery ticket sales rose more than 150 million (US$275 million) last year, thanks in part to soaring sales on the Internet and mobile phones.In total, interactive sales via the Internet, the Sky interactive service, and Play by Text on mobile phones were up more than 600% to 87.5 million (US$160 million).Total ticket sales rose to 4.77 billion (US$8.73 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 31, a 3.3% increase, and 60 million (US$110 million) more went to the 'Good Causes', w
May 23, 2005, 10:51 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery has best quarter everNews Story
The Georgia Lottery had its strongest ticket sales ever during the past quarter, relieving concerns from state officials that slow sales would prove costly to the HOPE scholarship program.Lottery officials said yesterday that they sold $827 million worth of tickets during the third quarter of fiscal 2005 from January through March. For the first nine months of fiscal 2005, sales hit $2.15 billion, up 4.8 percent from the first three quarters of last year.Sales were particularly strong for inst
Apr 15, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News