N.C. Lottery Update: Moving Quickly

Comment #14

Tenaj — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:08:19 GMT

Comment #13

NCPicks — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:02:09 GMT

Well duh,that's when the article was published.Not when the games start.

Comment #12

LOTTOMIKE — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:08:57 GMT

feb. 25,2006??? its past that date......

Comment #11

LOTTOMIKE — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:08:19 GMT

i hope north carolina does have balls......

Comment #10

JimmySand9 — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:01:11 GMT

You are right about the different terminology for computerized. However, Oberthur is a scratch-ticket manufacturer. They don't make ball machines. And if they they got that detail wrong, how can you be so sure they got the draw method detail right

Comment #9

Tenaj — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:13:40 GMT

When they say computerized they are using a different terminology of what we know it to be. They are talking about the machines that check the scratch offs and Powerball tickets. The Charlotte Observer stated that NC will be using ping pong balls pulled in a drum by Aberthur. I hope they use it for pick 3 and 4 if we get both. They always say pick 3 or 4.

So NC will have balls.lol

Comment #8

CASH Only — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:01:02 GMT

Computerized? In what way?

BTW the minimum age to play appears to be 18.

Comment #7

NCPicks — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:21:25 GMT

From the NC website:Feb 25,2006 The multi-state Powerball game is scheduled to start May 30.Additional computerized lottery games may be added in the fall.

Comment #6

Tenaj — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:59:55 GMT

Lottery sales are expected to exceed $1 billion a year. After prizes and operating costs, about $425 million is expected to be divided among several education programs: 50 percent to hire more elementary-school teachers and to expand a prekindergarten program; 40 percent to help counties build schools; and 10 percent for college scholarships.

I think NC will live up to this.

Comment #5

LOTTOMIKE — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:12:35 GMT

he'll finally drop eventually.poor lungs can't handle but so much........

Comment #4

DoubleDown — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:03:04 GMT

Mike, I know someone that smokes 4 packs a day.

It is sad to see him lighting one off the other....

Poor sap is 52 and will never see 60.

Comment #3

LOTTOMIKE — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:40:40 GMT

lol.your right doubledown.the cancer rate must be booming there.i can imagine folks having 4 pack a day habits.......

Comment #2

DoubleDown — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:28 GMT

LottoMike said: anyone know when the pick 3 would start???

Heck no, the only thing they can pick right now is tobacco so they can get them people smokin' !!!

It can be very frustrating for a customer who just wants a pack of cigarettes to have to wait for someone who is buying lottery tickets, she said as she watched a line form in front of her store's single register Thursday morning.

Comment #1

LOTTOMIKE — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:23:16 GMT

anyone know when the pick 3 would start

N.C. Lottery Update: Moving Quickly

Lottery Post — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:15:00 GMT

More than 200 stores in Forsyth County have applied to sell scratch-off tickets for the scheduled start of the new North Carolina lottery March 30.

Although most of them are convenience stores and grocery chains, applicants also include a miniature-golf course, several tobacconists, at least one pawn shop and a store that sells Indian food and spices.

At one store, Blue Ridge Tobacco Candle Outlet on Cloverdale Avenue, customers should soon be able to buy scratch-off tickets with their c... [ More ]