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Powerball drawing produces huge number of big winners, including two who split the jackpotReply
It's interesting that states may have to put some thought in how they arrange numbers on their play slips to eliminate pattern selections if they don't have in place rules protecting themselves with parimutuel payouts for large payouts. I kind of remember Texas All or Nothing https://www.lotterypost.com/news/262005 having similar issues where they needed to add parimutuel to the rules for large payouts. Even though the article does not mention it I believe their play slips allowed you to sel
Apr 30, 2026, 6:14 pm - jimjwright - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery approves credit card purchases and online ticket salesReply
Missouri and Illinois have done this for years. QuikTrip in Texas also allows you to pay lottery tickets by credit card. States where laws allow for the purchase of lottery tickets with a credit card include: Arizona California Colorado : Recently approved the use of credit cards for purchases. Delaware Florida Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Michigan Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota
Nov 25, 2025, 12:30 am - TwoMillion - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotReply
waiting until the jackpot reaches a certain amount before playing isn't fraud. the fraudulent stuff is when courier companies get their own dedicated machines to print off lottery tickets in a way that a regular member of the public can't access. that's what was going in in texas with one of the couriers who set up a fake store where they just printed tickets all day long or some such. if a group of friends decides to take a day off work to drive around to a bunch of convenience stores t
Oct 19, 2025, 2:38 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
I didn't miss any memo. I have a spreadsheet for running the Poisson distribution, which of course, is an approximation. To calculate estimated sales, I simply load the last cash value, and subtract the previous cash value (generally off the Texas Lottery site) and use the cash/sales ratio to estimate sales . I make no warranty about the last time I checked the cash value, or the accuracy. You may do whatever you wish. I really don't care, but I would suggest that neither accuracy nor p
Sep 3, 2025, 7:22 pm - Prob988 - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
Me. In Texas. Anonymous state.
Sep 3, 2025, 12:05 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery News

Texas Lottery Commission abolished, oversight of Texas Lottery transferredReply
Yes. It says order or arrange. Very broad language. If you had a huge win with your facts, you could argue it was an informal social favor between friends and hope a court narrows and interprets the law as being overbroad. 50/50 odds at best. It is a big jump in logic for the Texas lottery needing and wanting to ban couriers and then further extending it to a daughter buying her invalid aunt a lottery ticket.
Jun 24, 2025, 8:14 am - Artist77 - Lottery News

$83.5 million Lotto Texas winner reveals name in court battle: "Tired of being ignored"Reply
The problem as I see it is that the Texas Lottery made their first mistake when they essentially caved to that attention-seeking woman who makes her living by trying to make the lottery look bad. You can't appease a person like that. When she initially started bad-mouthing couriers, the lottery should have ignored her. Instead, they should have explained to the public that no, couriers are not bad, and they have nothing to do with lottery jackpots being purchased . The entire problem with this p
Jun 11, 2025, 6:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotNews Story
No evidence of couriers involved By Kate Northrop When an Idaho Cash lottery jackpot jumped up $126,000 overnight to $877,800 and was subsequently won, the Idaho Lottery had a suspicion a bulk buyer was at play. On Tuesday, Sept 30, the Idaho Lottery witnessed their Idaho Cash draw game jackpot reach a record level of $877,800, the highest prize the in-state draw game has ever seen. Based on sales figures, familiar signs from other similar recent activity , and reports from local Ida
Oct 18, 2025, 9:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Montana Lottery aims to prohibit bulk purchases after group takes gamble on $1.6 million jackpotReply
It would also grant the Lottery the ability to deny a claim for a winning lottery or sports wager ticket if it was found to have been purchased in relation to a bulk transaction. I don't agree with this. It's the lottery's job to shut down so-called bulk ticket retailers, not collect all this money and then deny payment. That's what Texas tried to do to a winner and she had to sue them to collect. If they want to make their lottery unattractive to bulk ticket purchasers when the jackpot
Sep 19, 2025, 6:38 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

South Dakota trust claims $78 million Lotto Texas jackpot days before it expiresReply
i think the secrecy is to deter scammers. there are just too many out there these days. Scammers are one reason to (try to) remain anonymous. People you already know are often another good reason. People who think your net worth is fairly typical tend not to pester you for large handouts, but a lot of us have a relative or acquaintance who would want a piece of the pie if they knew it was a multi-million dollar pie. Keeping the wealth secret tends to be a lot harder than just claiming anony
May 16, 2026, 1:33 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News