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Lottery Post's guide to 2025 holiday raffles across the USANews Story
Annual holiday raffles getting bigger this year By Kate Northrop As the holiday season approaches, state lotteries throughout the U.S. are gearing up to launch their yearly raffles, which typically provide better chances of winning a million dollars than other game available year-round. And players are undoubtedly ready to line up for their tickets Montana's raffle tickets are selling out faster and faster, down to within mere hours after tickets go on sale. Whether players are looki
Oct 31, 2025, 9:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery to add second daily Mass Cash drawingReply
This really sucks for loyal Mass Cash players. What's going to happen is exactly the same thing that happened with Florida Fantasy5 when the Florida Lottery added an additional Fantasy5 drawing each day in March of 2023. The mid-day Mass Cash drawing will have a low jackpot amount, and the evening drawing will have a somewhat larger but still reduced jackpot amount due to ticket sales for the mid-day drawing siphoning off money that formerly went to the evening drawing. Most players are
Jul 18, 2025, 9:15 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery Mass Cash drawing delayed due to ball drawing machine blunderNews Story
Oops! Operator error renders June 5 draw invalid By Kate Northrop A Massachusetts Lottery Mass Cash drawing was delayed after a ball drawing machine door was mistakenly left open, causing the balls to fall out of the drum before the first number could be drawn. The June 5, 2025 Mass Cash drawing needed a redo after a user error caused the balls to escape the drawing machine. The Massachusetts Lottery published a statement on Friday explaining the extent of the problem. The do
Jun 7, 2025, 9:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Two D.C. Lottery DC 4 drawings boast payouts of over $1 million each, less than a day apartNews Story
D.C. players win big across the span of two days By Kate Northrop Two D.C. Lottery DC 4 drawings, held on consecutive days, resulted in over one million dollars in prize payouts after the drawings produced winning numbers 8-8-8-8 and 2-2-2-2. The D.C. Lottery told Lottery Post that hundreds of tickets won big in Sunday's and Monday's DC 4 drawings after the winning combinations 8-8-8-8 and 2-2-2-2 were drawn less than a day apart. Number combinations with the same four digits are
Sep 27, 2024, 2:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

One lottery ticket sold in California wins $526.5 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Half-billion lottery jackpot scooped up by one winner in last night's draw By Kate Northrop Last night's Powerball drawing produced a single winning ticket for the $526.5 million jackpot, giving someone in California a half a billion reasons to celebrate. The multi-state Powerball lottery game produced a winner from California on Saturday, March 29, which resulted in a single ticket worth $526.5 million in 30 annual payments over 29 years or $243.8 million in cash all at once. Th
Mar 31, 2025, 5:04 pm - Todd - Lottery News

A Texas Lottery jackpot was "bought" last year, but legislators are pushing wrong solutionNews Story
Media echo chamber confuses problem and misleads public Exclusive Lottery Post investigative report By Kate Northrop Last year, a New Jersey-based group essentially bought a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot by purchasing all the possible number combinations. Now state legislators are eying possible measures to prevent it from happening again, but those solutions may do more harm than good. A New Jersey-based group called Rook TX gamed the odds by buying nearly every number combin
Oct 18, 2024, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Post's guide to 2024 holiday raffles across the USANews Story
Annual holiday raffles making a comeback this year Update: Montana Lottery Montana Millionaire raffle tickets sell out in just three hours By Kate Northrop With the holidays ahead, this marks the time of year when state lotteries across the U.S. start amping up excitement for their own annual raffles, many of which offer the best odds at winning a million dollars compared to any other game offered in-state. For that reason alone, it's no wonder many raffles sell out so quickly.
Nov 1, 2024, 7:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery to add third Pick 6 drawingNews Story
Lottery officials expect faster growing jackpots By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery announced on Monday that it will be adding a third weekly drawing to its Pick 6 game, the first major game change since 2022. Starting this summer, New Jersey lottery players will be getting a third weekly drawing for Pick 6, which the Lottery expects will result in faster growing jackpots. Pick 6 currently offers two weekly drawings on Mondays and Thursdays. On July 12, the game will get a S
May 1, 2025, 8:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

No winner again: Powerball jackpot hits $1.6 billion in longest-ever rollover runNews Story
5th-largest lottery jackpot in world history set for Monday drawing By Todd Northrop Following the massive Powerball drawing worth $1.43 billion Saturday night, get ready to head back to your local lottery retailer, because things have gotten even more interesting. That's because nobody won that Powerball lottery jackpot Saturday night, sending the Monday jackpot to heights only seen four times previously in world lottery history. Monday's Powerball jackpot is currently estimated
Dec 21, 2025, 7:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery to add second daily Mass Cash drawingNews Story
Popular draw game falls in line with Numbers Game Update: Midday drawing launch delayed By Kate Northrop On Monday, the Massachusetts Lottery announced that it will be adding a second daily Mass Cash drawing starting later this month. In less than a week, the Massachusetts Lottery's Mass Cash draw game will get a second daily drawing. Currently, the Lottery offers one daily Mass Cash drawing at 9:00 p.m. EST. Beginning Sunday, July 20, the game will operate with a new 2:00 p
Jul 15, 2025, 11:03 am - Todd - Lottery News