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Connecticut Lottery shutters headquarters after receiving letter with "powder-like substance"News Story
Headquarters reopens one day after the incident By Kate Northrop The Connecticut Lottery sent its employees home and shuttered its headquarters after receiving a mysterious letter containing an unknown powder-like substance. A mystery letter sealed by an unidentified sender landed in the hands of Connecticut Lottery officials, prompting them to close up shop for the rest of the day. At about noon on Tuesday, a receptionist at Wallingford Lottery headquarters opened a piece of ma
Feb 19, 2026, 8:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery proposes rules regulating courier services to allow them to operateReply
A lottery courier allows someone to play their state's lottery games over the Internet. What you are doing is paying a company a small extra fee to go to a store for you, buy the lottery tickets you request, and hold them on your behalf. If your ticket wins, they will redeem it for you and give you the money. But if you were to win a prize big enough to claim at lottery headquarters, they would arrange to hand you to the winning ticket, and you would take it yourself to lottery headquarters to c
Jun 15, 2025, 8:46 am - Todd - Lottery News

South Dakota launches mobile lottery ticket cashing for some prizes of up to $5,000Reply
Very interesting as I was just thinking of this today. Virginia allows you to cash out to your debit card. I am about to win big and was wondering if there is an amount that you win that requires you to go into headquarters. Thankful for the little things!
Mar 17, 2025, 1:11 pm - Donitall - Lottery News

California man says he's waited nine weeks for $44 million Powerball lottery jackpot payoutReply
In Georgia..you can get some in 24 hours, then some in 8 days, then some in 14 days, etc...im no opposed to them getting and making sure he the winner..there are a lot of scams out there..but I do know they have forensics at the headquarters and they can find out if you purchased your tickets..my friend wasted cologne on one of her tickets..she played a number ten times straight and cologne got on two of them..she had to FedEx in and let forensics do their job..it took six months and they determ
Nov 2, 2024, 10:48 pm - CHLOE$76 - 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

Louisiana lottery winners collect their "Night of Millionaires" Powerball prizes of $1 millionNews Story
Pattern on play slip triggered nationwide windfall as Louisiana ranks third in wins By Kate Northrop Lottery winners who struck it big in the Powerball Night of Millionaires drawing that awarded nearly one hundred players a second-tier prize of $1 million or more have been lining up to collect their prizes, one after the other. In what was dubbed the Powerball Night of Millionaires by lottery officials, Louisiana was the state that came in third for the greatest number of second-tier
May 26, 2026, 4:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Ohio husband's lottery luck leads to wife's $300,000 winReply
Strange story. He spent 20.00 of his 150.00 for 4 5.00 Cash Words for her and I will go out on a limb here and say he probably was familiar with the game and it's prize structure. She is happy as a clam to get the 4 tickets and scratched them in front of her friends when they were out doing something else that I guess wasn't too exciting. She downloaded the app and was fairly confident she won 300k. She tried calling him to no avail so instead of going home she stayed with her friends which was
Feb 17, 2026, 4:01 pm - billybucks - Lottery News

First big win of new Mega Millions game is one ticket in Ohio worth $112 millionReply
Mega Millions is dead in the water. They shot themselves in the foot with this increase. OK, Friday nights numbers were impossible but no one cares because no one is playing it anymore. It is only going up 10 million next Tuesday. watch it only go up 7 million. Players will see that and say I wasn't going to play it anymore anyway because of the 5.00 a line but now for sure I am not playing it with this slow jackpot crawl. There is wholesale panic at Mega Millions lottery headquarters. Heads wil
Apr 26, 2025, 10:30 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Kentucky woman brings in carton of eggs to claim $281,651 online lottery prizeNews Story
Internet meme inspires an uncanny lottery win and a memorable claim By Kate Northrop A Kentucky woman brought in and posed with a carton of eggs while claiming a $281,651 online lottery prize at the Kentucky Lottery headquarters. Word spread quickly around Kentucky Lottery headquarters that a lottery winner had walked into the building carrying a winning ticket and a carton of eggs. It was Hazel Morris and her husband, Dale, who had set Lottery staff abuzz last week with an unusu
Mar 30, 2025, 8:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

South Dakota launches mobile lottery ticket cashing for some prizes of up to $5,000Reply
The phone scanner on the KY app is about the same as the scanners in stores. They're function is whether a ticket loses or wins and if so for how much. Online winnings under $601 can be withdrawn from your Fun Club account and deposited directly into your bank account usually in a couple of days. They will mail you winnings or over $601 or you can collect at lottery headquarters. Interesting how lotteries seem to be going in different directions; some want online sales, others don't and som
Mar 18, 2025, 11:27 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News