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Virginia Border Stores Take Hit From N.C. LotteryReply
If I want to play Hot Lotto I have to drive to Montana. I don't play very often, because I can't afford to go back and forth to get tickets. So I can understand N.C. frustration with having to travel to play Pick 3 or other games.
Aug 11, 2006, 11:30 pm - bellyache - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot soars to $116 millionReply
Wahoo, I got my tix, had a friend shootin a movie up in Montana get them for me, wow what a breath taking state, WTG God, what a beautiful state, if I win the Jackpot, even with the 10% state tax, I think I would love living there. Good Luck to each of you.
Jul 21, 2006, 9:55 pm - DrumSlinger - Lottery News

Montana lottery system getting faceliftNews Story
The state lottery is on its way to becoming easier and more effective. More than 100 local managers and store clerks gathered at the Holiday Inn in Great Falls Monday to learn how to use new lottery machines as the state prepares to change over to a new, high-tech lottery system March 31. Intralot, a Georgia-based company, is assuming control of Montana's lottery system. Small, flashy-red machines with laser printers and satellite communication capabilities will replace the old lottery mac
Mar 8, 2006, 7:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery planning end for Super Lotto gameReply
I'm assuming you're talking about the G3 bingo. That's like an instant game that's printed out of the terminal. I wish more states would do that. The only ones who have them now are Montana and Minnesota.
Aug 19, 2005, 3:22 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery News

N.D. lottery profits outpacing estimatesNews Story
North Dakota's lottery has already turned over $1.43 million to the state treasury, matching the profits the new gambling venture was expected to make over 15 months, its administrator says.Players spent $5.84 million on lottery tickets since March 25 - when the Powerball game was launched in North Dakota - through June 30, said Chuck Keller, the lottery's director. The sum includes $122,758 in revenues from a second game, Hot Lotto, which began ticket sales June 25.Keller said the three-month f
Aug 10, 2004, 9:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Company picked to operate North Dakota state lotteryNews Story
Scientific Games International, which sells Powerball lottery tickets in Montana, Iowa and four other states, has been chosen to provide equipment for North Dakota's entry into the game next year.An advisory board voted Monday to pick Scientific Games over two competitors, GTech Corp. and Intralot USA, as the state's lottery supplier.State Rep. RaeAnn Kelsch, R-Mandan, the chairwoman of the board, said the company offered a more favorable commission rate than its competitors. Scientific Games c
Dec 2, 2003, 4:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.25 BILLION: Mega Millions jackpot set to deliver unimaginable wealthReply
We have the Pacific West and the Mountain West. I am going to tilt the Palantir just a little and let it point to the Mountain West. There is a straight line down from Montana to New Mexico. Colorado is a little out of line and kinda pushing Kansas out of the way, so because of such bullyish behavior I will eliminate Colorado. The people in Montana can always cross over to Canada and play lotto 6/49 there . The people in New Mexico can try their luck in Mexico maybe. So that leav
Aug 2, 2023, 1:20 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

Woman's winning lottery ticket rescued from trash by brotherNews Story
A Montana woman said a $50,000 winning lottery ticket she intended to throw away was rescued by her brother. Virginia Busko-Gewald told Montana Lottery officials she was inspired by her brother's lottery-playing hobby to pick up a lottery ticket at the Great Falls Albertsons. Even though her brother plays regularly, she didn't even know what game to play, so she bought the first game the clerk recommended: Powerball. I don't take it serious, Busko-Gewald said. It's just fun! After th
Dec 19, 2018, 11:25 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.D. lottery's first year deemed 'exceptional'News Story
Nearly a year after North Dakota unveiled its state lottery, former Gov. Arthur Link still gets annoyed waiting in line for someone else to splurge on the dream of a big payday.It happened just the other day, Link said, when he watched a man ahead of him in a convenience store hand over $2 for a couple of slips of paper. Link is among the lottery's foremost critics.Those with a sunnier view of the lottery point to a ledger that shows North Dakota's treasury raking in nearly $6 million since Marc
Mar 24, 2005, 10:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.2 BILLION: Powerball jackpot is 3rd-largest in game historyReply
Yes, it's Idaho. They call it bundling for your convenience as though that makes it better. I believe that Montana has also begun bundling the powerball. I wish MUSL didn't allow that. If you're gonna raise the price, just raise it nationwide instead of trying to manipulate players.
Oct 3, 2023, 12:45 pm - HoLeeKau - Lottery News