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Florida Lottery set to roll out changesNews Story
The Florida Lottery will implement a series of changes January 31, including new lottery machines, changes to the Pick 4 game, and new game called Grouper.The new game Grouper is really a new way to play Florida lottery games, rather than being a new game itself. When players purchase a Grouper ticket, they pay $5 for quick picks of five existing games and get a sixth quick pick -- for free -- of a randomly selected game.On the same day Grouper sales begin, lottery retailers throughout the stat
Jan 24, 2005, 11:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey lottery turns 40 with record $2.6B in revenueNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery sold a state record $2.6 billion in tickets for fiscal year 2010, an impressive number considering the state is in the midst of an historic recession. It's also impressive because the New Jersey Lottery, which turns 40 in December, continues to be an economic force in a state desperate for cash. Even after all this years, for better or worse, the lottery remains a growth industry. The lottery is a recession-proof business, says Carole Hedinger, acting executive dire
Nov 19, 2010, 10:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery introduces first joint lottery/tribal casino gameNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery and Santa Ana Star Casino have entered into the first joint lottery/tribal casino game in the state and possibly the United States.The two have launched LottoSino(C), an instant (Scratcher) game with two distinct playing fields: one for the lottery and the other for the casino.The traditional New Mexico Lottery portion features 11 ways to win with top cash prizes of $30,000. Santa Ana Star's portion includes a scratch-off playing field revealing various casino prizes rangi
Jun 14, 2005, 12:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Florida Mega Money game getting "way more mega"News Story
The Florida Lottery announced today that beginning January 28, the Mega Money game is getting way more mega. The first drawing for the new game will be held Friday, January 30, 11:15 p.m. EST. I am pleased to announce exciting changes to the new Mega Money game, Florida Lottery Secretary Rebecca Dirden Mattingly said. We listened to our players in redesigning the game. They told us they wanted more ways to win and bigger prizes and we have given it to them. Top annuity prizes for the new Me
Jan 23, 2004, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

$800 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot approaches billion-dollar rangeNews Story
Cash value is a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop This is the lottery jackpot every lottery player has been waiting for! Reaching into uncharted stratospheric heights, the Saturday Powerball jackpot is by far the largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen, and is now also the largest lump-sum cash jackpot in world history. Just a day after the jackpot was raised to $700 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has once again raised the official Powerball jackpot e
Jan 8, 2016, 11:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Keno: The Next Big Bet For The N.H. Lottery?News Story
On a recent afternoon at the Common Grounds Cafe, 200 yards from the New Hampshire border in Methuen, Mass, a handful of men sit along a short counter or at several tables in the back of the cafe. Eyes moving back and forth from their pink and white betting slips to two wall-mounted video monitors, they wait for the next drawing of a popular electronic lottery game called Keno. We've got some regulars who come in almost every day, said Shane Bernard, who runs the cafe with his parents. An
Jan 8, 2014, 9:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery leaders convene in D.C. to discuss future of gamesNews Story
La Fleur's annual symposium draws hundreds of lottery personnel, vendors By Todd Northrop This week leaders from nearly every U.S. and Canadian lottery met in Washington, D.C. at the annual La Fleur's Lottery Symposium to discuss the future of government lotteries, especially with regard to Internet sales and play. Emboldened by a U.S. Department of Justice opinion issued in Dec. of last year clarifying that the Wire Act only has bearing on sports wagering, state lotteries have immediat
Apr 26, 2012, 3:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.M. Gov. cancels 8-day-old lottery scratch gameNews Story
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has ordered the New Mexico Lottery to discontinue a just-released ground-breaking game that paired the lottery with Santa Ana Pueblo's Star Casino via a new scratch ticket. I am very concerned the new game sends the message that the state is promoting casino-style gambling, Richardson said Tuesday in a prepared statement.The LottoSino game, which began June 14, will die when the four-month contract for tickets ends.It was a first-of-its-kind scratch-off scratch
Jun 24, 2005, 3:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New tri-state lottery game to go on sale SundayNews Story
Declining sales have prompted lottery officials from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to replace the Tri-State Heads or Tails game.The last Heads or Tails drawing is Saturday.Tickets for a new game, Tri-State Triple Play, are to go on sale Sunday, and the first drawing is Tuesday. Subsequent drawings will happen twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.Triple Play tickets will sell for $2.In the new game, players may choose 5 numbers from a field of 1 through 45, or they can have the lottery termina
Jun 24, 2005, 11:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery Plans To Introduce New GameNews Story
The Pennsylvania lottery is currently developing a new pick your own numbers game.The Pennsylvania lottery scored a record $2.1 billion in sales in fiscal year 2002-2003 -- a ten percent increase from the previous year and the largest increase in 19 years.Lottery officials are ecstatic about the impact of the mega-jackpot Powerball game and are now developing a game to compliment Powerball.Lottery director Edward Mahlman says like Powerball, the new game will allow players to pick their own nu
Sep 2, 2003, 3:57 am - Todd - Lottery News