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Kentucky man who won $500,000 lottery prize celebrates by giving retailer employees moneyNews Story
First thought from lottery winner is a generous one By Kate Northrop A Kentucky man's first action on his to-do list after winning $500,000 in the lottery was to give money away to the employees at the store he bought the ticket from. A Kentucky lottery winner decided to pay it forward after he won a $500,000 top prize in a scratch-off game. Last Sunday, Daniel Reffitt was leaving the Meijer grocery store on Houston Road in Florence when he walked by a Kentucky Lottery vending ma
Sep 5, 2023, 3:57 pm - Todd - Lottery News

California woman chooses wrong lottery ticket because of "rude" person, wins $10 millionNews Story
Woman is millions richer thanks to a stranger's bad manners By Kate Northrop A rude person at a grocery store inadvertently helped a California woman win $10 million in the lottery after their bad manners caused her to select the wrong ticket. There have been countless stories of people being persuaded to buy a different lottery ticket and winning but one player was literally pushed into purchasing a ticket she had no intention of buying and won a huge prize as a result. In Nov
Apr 7, 2022, 12:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

North Carolina Lottery adds Cash 5 Double Play featureNews Story
Players try out new feature for a second chance to win By Kate Northrop Sunday marked the release of the North Carolina Lottery's Cash 5 Double Play add-on feature, which gives players the chance to win a prize twice in one night for an extra $1 per play. Opting in for the Double Play feature will have the player's numbers for the original Cash 5 drawing entered for a second drawing that takes place immediately after. The prizes for the original Cash 5 drawing and the Double Play dra
Apr 26, 2021, 4:08 pm - Todd - Lottery News

The man who won the lottery 14 times (part 1)News Story
Just after 11 PM on February 15, 1992, a lottery ball machine at the Virginia State Lottery HQ spit out 6 winning numbers on live television: 8... 11... 13... 15... 19... 20. In the coming days, officials would find out that one person had secured not only the $27,036,142 jackpot, but 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes collectively worth another $900k. What unfolded next was the strangest, most improbable lottery tale in history one involving thousands of internation
Aug 20, 2018, 7:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery is now offering simulated sports games, much to casinos' dismayNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery on Tuesday rolled out the latest addition to its line-up with the introduction of a simulated sports games that may appeal to football and auto racing fans. Called Xpress Football and Xpress Car Racing, these realistic animation of sporting events allow players to bet on an outcome of a random computerized drawings that occur every five minutes. Tickets to play the games can be purchased and checked at any lottery retailer. Those who want to watch the drawing resul
Aug 17, 2018, 11:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Kansas lawmakers considering lottery vending machinesNews Story
Kansas Lottery players soon might be able to buy tickets from vending machines. The House voted this week in support of the move, which the state lottery has sought for three years. Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford said the measure would increase lottery revenue and cut labor costs for retailers, where ticket buyers could bypass clerks and use the self-service machines. She said 37 other states, including Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma, use the machines. Vending machines have increas
Mar 25, 2017, 3:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Generating Play Slips
To prevent from having to time consuming process of manually fill out play slips for several different state lotteries I have tried multiple methods: Method 1: Create a number matrix in reporting in an Access Database or SSRS (SQL Reporting Services) that prints the dots on the numbers I want to play and how many games. Fill the manual feed tray of the printer with play slips and print. The advantages to this method are: Accuracy No color printer requirements A laser jet printer can
Feb 23, 2017, 9:49 pm - Novan60 - Lottery Discussion Forum

US lottery experiences and the Patels
So I thought I'd share some recent very boring experiences from NY. I was recently in NY and bought tickets for the NY Lotto (once only) and bought PB and MM tickets regularly. Some dollars and some dreams, it would have been so much fun to figure out how to deal with the winning while on vacation, flying there coach, flying back private or first class. Unfortunately, that didn't work, as the one time I am in New York it does not win, of course. Instead, as you know, it went to Illinois
Jun 4, 2015, 9:05 am - MaximumMillions - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Another failed experiment tonight. Switched games up and played the Old Gold Rush. After playing so many of those tickets, I have still yet to come across a golden nugget. I concentrated on this game instead of the 100X because the 100X has just sucked for me recently. Investment: $205 Locations in Gainesville: Chevron (Williston Rd I-75) 3 GRT (1 from each bin) Kangaroo (Williston Rd I-75) 1 GRT Citgo (Main Street South of NE 10th) 1 GRT Sunoco (13th Street North of 39th
Dec 20, 2014, 9:41 pm - zzplayfaster - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Lucky woman buying lottery ticket narrowly escapes truck crashNews Story
Includes video report Surveillance cameras captured amazing video of a woman who barely escaped with her life when a truck crashed into a grocery store in the Park Manor, Illinois, neighborhood Friday afternoon. It happened at the Farmers Food Basket at 71st and Martin Luther King Drive. Witnesses say a Ford pickup truck hit two other vehicles in the intersection, then careened into the front of the store. The woman, who was buying lottery tickets from a vending machine near the site
Apr 21, 2014, 11:19 am - Todd - Lottery News