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Ohio Lottery's new game three months without jackpot winnerNews Story
The Ohio Lottery's newest game, which replaced Super Lotto Plus in October, has gone three months without a jackpot winner and some players and sellers think the 100-number, bingo-style Lot 'O Play game is too complicated. The game is mind-boggling, Alonzo Adams, 52, of Cleveland, said Friday outside a busy lottery outlet.That's the reaction Elizabeth Bost gets from lottery players from her vantage point at a gift shop in New Paris northwest of Dayton. There's too many numbers, she said.The L
Jan 9, 2006, 7:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery fires officialNews Story
The chief of the Springfield office of the state Lottery has been terminated from his $71,000-a-year job, highlighting the Lottery's lagging record on minority hiring.Luis Garcia, 48, of Springfield said he was called into the Lottery's Braintree headquarters on Oct. 20 and told by former state Rep. Joseph C. Sullivan, the lottery's executive director, that he was being terminated as of Nov. 5 as assistant director and regional manager in Springfield. Garcia, a Puerto Rican, said he was the only
Dec 5, 2005, 7:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Blackjack
Anyone interested in talking some blackjack....How the book relates to real life play, strategies based on where you're sitting at the table, how many players are at the table, how many decks in the shoe, how to bust a dealer streak, that sort of thing?Soft 18For instance, I tend to usually hit a soft 18 when I'm looking at a dealer 10. It seems to almost always work for me, particularly when the dealer's been 'having' them. I don't see many other people doing this. Any views?Splitting AcesI
Jul 1, 2005, 10:30 pm - Rip Snorter - Gaming Forum

Illinois lawmakers debate Internet lottery salesNews Story
If store lines have kept you from the big bucks possible in playing the state lottery, a Chicago senator has the solution - just buy the tickets online.Democrat State Sen. John Cullerton has proposed a bill to make lottery tickets available for sale on the Internet, something he says will attract more customers with bigger pocketbooks and possibly collect more money for schools. Senate Bill 198 is currently on the floor, but some Southern Illinois legislators say they're not ready to expand gami
Mar 8, 2005, 12:33 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery has record salesNews Story
Lottery Sales Increase by More Than 10 Percent for Second Straight YearThe Pennsylvania Lottery, the only state lottery to designate all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents, had record sales of $2.35 billion in fiscal 2003-04, topping the old record of $2.13 billion, set in 2002-03, by $219 million or 10.3 percent. This has been a tremendous year for the Pennsylvania Lottery and for the hundreds of thousands of older Pennsylvanians who benefit from Lottery-funded programs, sai
Jul 13, 2004, 7:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery programsReply
Colin F,Dang, I had a reply all worked up and somehow it never posted...Anyway. What I had said, was that a test was run last year during the month of March. Several users posted predictions from the software, along with Random numbers generated by Random.ORG. I myself only participated in the trial for the first week.The results brought out two distinct issues.Random numbers out performed the user designed stacks in that test example.That the user designed stacks was only a small set of poss
Feb 13, 2004, 9:27 am - Andrew - Lottery Systems Forum

Lottery board ups goalsNews Story
Profit expectations for Tennessee's new lottery director Rebecca Paul increased Tuesday by roughly $6 million following a vote by the state's lottery board.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) board, due to Paul's starting one week earlier than planned, increased the amount of net proceeds the lottery must garner if Paul is to receive the whole of her $400,000 incentive package. A former goal described by Paul as Herculean -- of $122 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year
Sep 24, 2003, 4:05 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winners say they feared for their safetyNews Story
Teri and Cornell Davis were so nervous that someone was going to snatch their winning New Jersey Lottery ticket that they hired two armed off-duty police officers to drive them to the lottery office in Trenton to claim their prize. I really thought we were getting our money that day, Teri Davis testified yesterday before state Superior Court Judge Marguerite Simon, sitting in Bergen County, adding that she and her husband had already started receiving threats about the money.But instead of gett
Aug 6, 2003, 5:37 am - Todd - Lottery News