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Colorado Lottery approves credit card purchases and online ticket salesNews Story
Skeptical legislators threaten to undo rule changes By Kate Northrop Colorado lottery players will soon be able to purchase lottery tickets online and pay for tickets using credit cards after the Colorado Lottery approved rule changes in a commission meeting this week. On Wednesday, the Colorado Lottery approved rule changes that will allow players to purchase lottery tickets online and use a credit card despite some state legislators expressing concern. Retailer advocates also s
Nov 24, 2025, 4:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
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 . And in this case you got garbage out because you put garbage in as a result of data that wasn't updated. In this case it looks like you used the $498.4 million cash value for the originally announced $1.1 billion jackpot. The actual cash value at drawing time was about $46 million higher, so they needed almost 70 million fewer ticket
Sep 4, 2025, 3:37 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
Wow, no bumps in the jackpot anymore these days. Looks like no one cares about Powerball anymore Sales are slower than they used to be, but enough people care to buy about 125 million tickets for tonight's drawing, based on the latest sales estimate. What do you think the final jackpot will reach tonight? Will it not make the estimation, will it exceed the estimation or will it pretty much hit the mark? The worksheet posted on Monday estimated the funded annuity at just a hair shy
Dec 24, 2025, 9:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Powerball drawing produces huge number of big winners, including two who split the jackpotReply
Once again New York a high volume in sales was not included in the winnings
Apr 30, 2026, 5:27 pm - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

Colorado bill would ban credit card lottery ticket purchases and online salesNews Story
Lottery couriers nearly caught in the crossfire By Kate Northrop Colorado legislators have introduced a bill that would roll back credit card purchases for lottery tickets and ban direct online ticket sales. Some lawmakers in Colorado are not happy with the Colorado Lottery's unilateral decision to approve credit card purchases and direct online ticket sales, which the Colorado Lottery Commission approved in a meeting in November 2025. At the time the Lottery voted in favor of th
Mar 12, 2026, 9:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
I see the cash option was updated, it is now $689.3 million. The annuity is still $1.5 billion. Will it be raised again tomorrow before the drawing? The interest rate has dropped slightly, so each cash dollar will now buy $2.176 worth of annuity instead of $2.185 worth of annuity. Players are wildly unlikely to buy a different number of tickets because of a change in interest rate so it seems wildly unlikely that a legitimate sales forecast was revised upward exactly as much as require
Dec 19, 2025, 3:39 pm - 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 Millionaire for Life multi-state game coming in 2026Reply
I think the MUSL is in full denial of slumping MM sales
Oct 22, 2025, 10:48 am - hearsetrax - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
How are sales, will it roll over? I'm wondering if there's any chance that sales today have been lower than expected, because I was sure we'd see an updated jackpot this afternoon. Their own, and presumably conservative, sales estimate is for 112 million tickets which would add about $75 million cash and increase the annuity by $165 million. Saturday's drawing ended at about $544 million cash and $1.201 billion for the annuity. That means their sales estimate puts tomorrow's jackpot at $619
Sep 2, 2025, 7:42 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
How are sales, will it roll over?
Sep 2, 2025, 4:30 pm - heisenberg991 - Lottery News