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Indiana lottery sales decline has officials probing illegal gamesNews Story
The Hoosier Lottery, faced with slumping profits, is struggling to get more people to play ticket games in a world of electronic gambling.In the budget year just ended, lottery officials expect to see about a 5 percent decline in profits, which reached $199 million last year, according to W. Edward Benton, the lottery's chief financial officer.So what's eating into ticket sales? Smaller Powerball jackpots, for one thing, something Hoosier Lottery officials can't control.The approximately 22,00
Jul 11, 2005, 12:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery mulling changes to drawingsNews Story
Could this be a move to all-computerized drawings and the death of real drawings in Illinois? After 20 years of perky hosts and ping pong balls, the future of live Illinois Lottery drawings on WGN-Ch.9 is up in the air. Lottery officials said Tuesday they are considering parting ways with WGN-TV, home to daily drawings since 1994, when the current one-year contract expires in June. Advances in lottery technology, an influx of new games and the move by Tribune Co. to pull the evening drawin
Apr 16, 2014, 8:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

America's multi-state lottery titans agree to ticket-selling partnershipNews Story
Even bigger, unified national game could be next They are the two marquee games in American lotteries: Mega Millions and Powerball. Each lottery state currently has one, but not the other. However, the Mega Millions consortium and Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) have reached an agreement in principle to cross-sell Mega Millions and Powerball in all U.S. lottery jurisdictions. The agreement means that lotteries from across the United States, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will be able
Oct 14, 2009, 9:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

Over €85 million in unclaimed Ireland Lottery prizes over the past five yearsNews Story
Lotto game currently on six-month winless streak By Kate Northrop Over the last five years, Ireland's National Lottery has had over 85 million (US$95.8 million) in unclaimed prizes returned to its wallet. Whether lottery winners lose their winning ticket, forget to claim their winnings, or were unaware of the win in the first place, those numbers sure do add up. Each year, from 2016 through 2020, the Lottery saw at least 16.1 million (US$18.1 million) returned back to its bank
Nov 29, 2021, 12:55 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Bahamas 'web shop' accused of failing to pay winnersNews Story
Says Iowa and Indiana lotteries 'teamed up' on them Irate patrons of Paradise Games, a Bahamas web shop, yesterday vowed to take their business elsewhere amid accusations the gaming house has refused to reward tens of thousands of dollars in winnings. The customers, on the request of anonymity, allege after playing numbers and winning nearly $60,000 on one ticket and another $32,000 on an additional ticket in the 'Early Iowa' game, they were given the run around by Paradise Games and ultim
Jul 6, 2017, 11:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

It's time the lottery needs to stop releasing a person name and picture when a big win is won!Reply
You sure did your homework there mikeintexas! Got some good points there for sure. Well, I still would prefer a choice- period. I am less concerned about lottery officials cashing in on old school ball drops with astronomical odds than I am with walking around town with giant $ sign on my back. Yeah, you could easily lay low for awhile, but I don't want be a recluse either. Now if we go all computerized drawings perhaps I may be a little more leery of fraud, however, if that fraud w
Feb 10, 2015, 10:56 pm - Romancandle - Lottery Discussion Forum

Canada 6/49 and LottoMax
Happy New Years 2015 Jackpot Players! For those who play online for Canada's 6/49 and LottoMax, here are some curious facts that may interest you (tho you likely know many of these already). 6/49 and LottoMax are actually drawn by an umbrella company of the OLG at a separate physical address than the main ball drop draws at Dundas and Yonge Streets (they're drawn at an office up at Eglinton and Yonge Streets). They are computerized drawings (boo - hiss). If you want to witness the draws, y
Jan 10, 2015, 10:21 am - Minka$ - Jackpot Games Forum

New multi-state lottery game launches SundayReply
You posted- Is it ball dropped????????? Or computerized????? My response Every part of this game is computerized. It starts with the randomly computerized property number (easy pick players won't care), to the the actual drawing, to the millionaires club drawing, as well as the 2nd chance drawing. Below is a link where I found the 'computerized' drawing information from. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/279345 Since I don't support computerized drawings, this is the wor
Oct 20, 2014, 6:13 pm - Tatototman65 - Lottery News

I think I just may have cracked the p-3 codeReply
WOW......!!! I just backtested the next 5 days and on day 3 ANOTHER STRAIGHT HIT...!!! Plese note that I am only backetsting 5 numbers that I get at the end of the work out, so in essence this would be playing $5 per drawing (backtesting Mid to Mid right now) and the wins are in the $300-400 category on straight/box and $60-$125 on box alone. On a pure straight play were talking $756. This is unreal. I mean especailly in Cali where we have computerized drawings which are a PAIN in th
Oct 13, 2012, 1:39 am - ProTrader - Lottery Systems Forum

The Lottery Office is closed until Monday but speculation in Lapeer rages onReply
Not every member here is necessarily a stone faced serious, all business, hard core lottery system geek. I don't recall anyone else saying what most, some, or a even a few of the members should be, but you had to say something because that new member likes your posts even if they are irrelevant or unrelated to the topic. Personally I don't care if you say you were driving through Wasilla, Alaska and post a photo of Times Square or say your ancestor won $1 million playing penny-ante poker wh
Aug 22, 2012, 3:05 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News