The logo doesn't look very fun to me, and it doesn't look like a lottery logo. 

I wish the lotteries would stop throwing "education" in our faces.  Most people playing the lottery are happy to see money going to education, but they play the lottery to win money, not to donate to education.  Everyone is already paying for education through state and local taxes.  Enough!

Maybe that logo makes the Christian folks feel better about a lottery they didn't want in the first place.

I agree it doesn't have any appeal should have some $$$$ signs on it and a picture of a man and woman with smiling faces holding up some cash in each hand.

I don't subscribe to the "Christian" stereotype you're saying.  In truth, the lottery will most likely get more money from Christians than anyone else.

I think there are anti-gambling people in every state, but I don't think I would make generalizations about their religion.

i happen to be one of those Christians and i play....but of course, i budget, play with responsibility, and most of all i show the love of Christ first & foremost. i think you'll find a lot of us Christians here that follow that.

so you may want to reconsider your "Stereotype"

I second that emotion..........

its looks a lil boring and sooooo not about playing the lottery

You know, when I glance at the logo, the first thing that catches my eye is that tassle hanging down -- it looks like a tear-drop to me.  Maybe that's the tear that most people will shed when their number doesn't hit?

Or, come to think of it, maybe it looks like a liquor bottle -- like the booze you'll be drinking after blowing your last dime on the numbers?

3 times lucky and Jumbo Bucks...  Looks very similar to the SC games doesn't it??

Hmm... that former S.C. lottery director in charge of the Arkansas Lottery might have something to do with it? 

Arkansas Lottery Web site address revealed!

A closer inspection of the scratch-off tickets reveals that the address for the new Arkansas Lottery Web site is:

http://www.myarkansaslottery.com/

(See it in tiny letters down the side of the scratch-off tickets?)

Right now the site just shows a count-down clock indicating that ticket sales will start in 15 days.

I guess they couldn't use a perfect Web address like www.arkansasscholarshiplottery.com or www.arscholarshiplottery.com.  Those names seem to be taken already.

I can't believe it is almost time for the lottery to start up. I can't wait to buy my first scratch off ticket.

Lottery directors do tend to bring a lot of old habits with them when they swtich states. Just look at how Rebecca Paul, or Hargrove, or Throatwarbler-Mangrove, started up the TN Lottery, a ton of similarities to Georgia.

There are a lot of lottery scratchers that are collectors. First issue should be a top piece for collectors. Unfortunately I heard the ones that have not been scratched at all bring the highest premium.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/132683

Nice reference to the news story from 2006!  I hope the collectors from Arkansas are listening...

thank'ssss..........>>>>Todd:

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PSYKOMO

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hairy ried

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all of the demo dog's HOUSE

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MADDOG:

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LOL

psykomo

just as psyko thought:

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psykomo

four:

i take no offense, i just think most people are too quick to "put all the sheep in one pen".

as far as Christians of all faith, there's only one Faith, one Savior.

as far as your wife, congratulations- i pray she follows the simple message of Christ-love.

and their interpretation of scripture with the lottery being "gambling" is incorrect. i believe complete scholarly study/facts will relate that.

anyway, we'll all face our judgement one day, and we as humans are not the judge.

have a blessed week.

No offense taken here either.  I guess I'm just very sensistive to seeing religion trashed in the media these days, so I tend to be on the lookout for it.

Don't know if anyone else noticed it, but the tickets state at the bottom that tickets may continue to be sold after all the top prizes are gone...a crooked practice in my opinion, but at least they are upfront about it.

I agree. And, while I'm not anti-religion by any means, I also tend to agree with the poster who suggested that the reason for the prominence of the "scholarship" stuff is to placate religion-based anti-lottery sentiment in Arkansas.

I have lived in Arkansas for more than twenty years. One of the reasons it has taken so long for Arkansas to get its own state lottery -- and after several previous attempts, some of which were halted by reasons so transparently contrived it was laughable -- is that the state constitution forbade it. Religious sentiment is another. There is a contemptible organization in this state which goes by the seemingly innocuous name of the "Arkansas Family Council" which fought the lottery legislation tooth-and-nail; and, when it passed anyway, they then moved to frustrate its implementation. They pretend that their motivation is to protect the poor, which makes you wonder whether it's okay for them to lie so long as their cause is just in their own eyes. (Kind of reminds one of the Taliban, which suspends religious rules for its people if it means being able to kill a few more non-believers.)

Religion is a good thing when it helps someone disciple himself; it becomes a bad thing when it's used to try to disciple others against their will.

By the way,  I've just written a letter to the Arkansas Lottery Commission, explaining why they should implement mechanical drawings for the state's lottery. I'll buy my Powerball tickets here, but I won't be buying state lottery tickets here unless and until they make the change.

Looks like the arkansas lottery page has just updated.

myarkansaslottery.com

Just calculated payouts with Arkansas scratch-offs:

• $1 3 Times Lucky - 62.5%
• $2 Arkansas Riches - 66.5%
• $2 Jumbo Bucks - 68%
• $5 $100,000 Cash Bonanza - 72.5%

Very impressive, already a better deal than Okie scratch-offs. But you'll still have to go to Sooner country to play games with real drawings, unless a miracle happens.