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Winner of $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpot is infamous bulk buyerNews Story
Idaho legislation moves along bill to ban bulk lottery ticket purchases By Kate Northrop The Idaho Lottery's initial suspicions that a bulk purchaser was at play during a jackpot run that resulted in an $877,800 Idaho Cash win were correct when it was confirmed that an entity known for executing jackpot buyouts came forward to claim the prize. In response to restless national sentiment surrounding the nature of jackpot buyouts and a recent $877,800 Idaho Cash win, Idaho state legisla
Feb 25, 2026, 6:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery has delivered $6.1B in prizes since 1985Reply
In closely related news, Iowa lottery players have lost more than $6 billion since 1985. The average payout might be better than 50% if some (usually scratch games) pay more, but even if the average payout is 60% paying out $6 billion would mean players lost $4 billion. Not all of that would be profit, but operating costs shouldn't be all that high, and they'd also have collected some income tax on winnings and the salaries of everybody who works for the lottery.
Dec 6, 2025, 12:51 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery has delivered $6.1B in prizes since 1985News Story
Iowa Lottery celebrates 40 years Sales of the first Iowa Lottery tickets began in 1985 with a kickoff celebration at the Iowa State Fair. Forty years later, state fairgoers broke the Guinness World Record for the most people 1,380 to scratch lottery cards simultaneously, demonstrating the lottery's journey from $1 scratch tickets to a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Since its launch was approved by the state Legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Terry Branstad, the lottery has gen
Dec 5, 2025, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey couple wins $3 million lottery prize six months after winning $1 millionReply
i would bet that when they won a million dollars six months ago they decided to reinvest a good chunk of that in scratch off purchases. there's actually a way to optimize buying scratchers. you look for games where all the top tier and most of the second tier prizes are unclaimed but a larger than expected number of the bottom prizes have been claimed. it doesn't happen often, but due to normal variance you will sometimes find scratch off games that have these optimal conditions. some people kee
Nov 18, 2025, 11:11 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
YES, Delaware is a small state and does not have the players like other states. I lived close enough to play in Delaware and you could definitely tell they didn't have the players Maryland did. I am sure they want to 'protect' their scratch off games so players spend on those instead.
Jan 30, 2026, 4:49 am - DELotteryPlyr - Lottery News

New Jersey couple wins $3 million lottery prize six months after winning $1 millionReply
That's not how probabilities are calculated at all. Just like MM PB, each game has winning tickets with specific probabilities to that game. For scratch-offs it's # of printed tickets containing that prize amount divided by total number of tickets. And since these two games are not dependent, the combined odds is just multiplying the odds of winning each of those prizes individually. For instance, the odds of someone winning both PB MM jackpot would be 1 in 292M*290M. Probabilit
Nov 18, 2025, 5:02 pm - johnnyBlaze - Lottery News

Montana Lottery aims to prohibit bulk purchases after group takes gamble on $1.6 million jackpotNews Story
Smaller lottery unexpectedly targeted by purchasing group prompts security discussions Plans partially foiled by another winner By Kate Northrop The Montana Lottery is the latest state to propose rules that would prohibit bulk ticket purchases after an unknown entity bought hundreds of thousands of tickets to scoop a $1.6 million Montana Cash jackpot in May. One by one, state lotteries across the nation have been taking proactive steps to curb the possibility of organized groups
Sep 19, 2025, 2:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New Millionaire for Life multi-state game coming in 2026Reply
This is a non starter. 1st Problem: Computer simulation with no ball drop. 2nd Problem: Top prize isn't nearly enough for a $ 5 line. 3rd problem: Daily Draws - 2-3 times a week is max. Summary...MUSL apparently doesn't believe their own numbers after looking at the revenue loss on Mega Millions. IF they made the Cash Ball a multiplier of the jackpot that would spice it up tremendously (They would still have 1 as an out). Remember the Tennessee Cash 3 Double numbers problem (where doubles were c
Oct 24, 2025, 4:35 am - me8thinks3 - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
Dude what are you talking about? Apparently you don't know what a Fast Play ticket is. Fast Play tickets print out of the lottery terminal or a lottery vending machine. YOU instantly know if you have won or not by looking at the ticket or scanning it. There are NO waiting until the numbers are drawn. Arizona feels that there is a problem with some people trying to buy up all the Fast Play tickets in the Progressive games, which are jackpots that continually grow until someone wins. In my area of
Jul 9, 2025, 7:01 am - winterhug - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
YES they do! But also they see them (ball drawings) as a added EXPENSE that they can cut. In todays business world people get a bonus when they find ways to CUT costs. Marketing for lotteries seems to have been cut across the board. They just keep creating more expensive games (especially scratch offs) just putting out a press release for marketing. Until sales drop they will not go back to ball drawings. Thanks again for doing what you do in contacting them! How long would this have g
Apr 23, 2026, 5:16 am - DELotteryPlyr - Lottery News