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Lotto America multi-state lottery game tickets on sale SundayNews Story
New game replaces canceled Hot Lotto By Todd Northrop What's old is new again. Ripping a page from the 1980s, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) is starting a new game on Sunday called Lotto America the original name of what is now known as Powerball. The throwback name is probably a good idea, since the new game has the difficult task of helping people forget the tumultuous ending to Hot Lotto, the game it replaces. Fortunately for lottery players, not only does the new g
Nov 10, 2017, 10:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lotto America to switch to computerized drawingsNews Story
Digital draw system to replace numbered balls, new draw schedule By Kate Northrop The Powerball Group announced yesterday that the multi-state Lotto America game will move to digital drawings, starting next week. Starting next week, Lotto America will no longer employ mechanical ball drawing machines, rather it will operate on a digital draw system to determine lottery results. Lotto America, operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and sold by 13 U.S. lotteries, wi
Apr 12, 2023, 6:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lotto America to launch third weekly drawing on Monday nightsNews Story
Lotto America is giving players a new day to play for cash prizes and a multi-million dollar jackpot. On July 18, 2022, Lotto America will launch a new Monday drawing, which will expand the weekly lineup of Lotto America drawings to three nights a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. The Monday night drawing will not change Lotto America's $1 ticket price, game odds, or set cash prizes. Players will continue to choose five numbers from 1 to 52 and one Star Ball number from 1 to 10. The
Jul 6, 2022, 3:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lotto America multi-state lottery game tickets on sale SundayReply
Throwback names make it so difficult for historians to separate out original information from throwback information (ie: Lotto America, Lotto America 2, Lotto America 3, etc.)
Nov 10, 2017, 10:45 am - Raven62 - Lottery News

Nebraska Lottery will join Lotto America in MayNews Story
Multi-state game to be offered in yet another state By Kate Northrop The Nebraska Lottery officially announced today that it will begin offering tickets for the multi-state game Lotto America. The Mississippi Lottery is not the only state lottery to recently announce its decision to join the multi-state game . Just today, the Nebraska Lottery revealed that it will start offering the game, too. In addition to Mega Millions and Powerball, Nebraska lottery players will soon have ano
Apr 21, 2024, 8:14 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery to begin offering Lotto AmericaNews Story
Third multi-state game to be offered in the state By Kate Northrop The Mississippi Lottery officially announced today that it will expand its repertoire to begin offering tickets for the multi-state game Lotto America. Mississippi lottery players will soon have another multi-state draw game to play in addition to Mega Millions and Powerball, with Lotto America launching locally next month. Lotto America is currently offered by 13 other U.S. lotteries. Mississippi will bump up tha
Apr 15, 2024, 4:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery scammer rigged more drawings than first thought, records showReply
Due to falling sales of Hot Lotto (whose final drawing was October 28, 2017), a new version of Lotto America became available on November 12, 2017; its first drawing was November 15, 2017. Lotto America is available wherever Hot Lotto was offered at the time of its final drawing (except New Hampshire, which is expected to join in June 2018.) Lotto America is drawn on Wednesday and Saturday nights after 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT. For each $1 play, bettors choose five numbers from 1 through 52, and a
Feb 20, 2018, 4:04 pm - Bodia77 - Lottery News

Lotto America ticket worth $4.4 million won in IowaNews Story
By Todd Northrop Iowa Lottery officials say a Lotto America ticket bought at a convenience store in Davenport is worth nearly $4.4 million. The ticket matched the six numbers in Saturday's Lotto America drawing: 8, 15, 18, 32, and 45, with Star Ball number 1. The ticket was generated free when the person bought a Powerball ticket at the Kwik Trip convenience store, located at 2850 W. Locust Street in Davenport, Iowa, as part of an Iowa Lottery promotion for May. Lotto America is a mu
May 8, 2018, 8:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lotto America multi-state lottery game tickets on sale SundayReply
Lotto*America was the first lottery game offered by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). It was replaced in 1992 by Powerball, which, along with Mega Millions, are MUSL's flagship games. In 1987, six states and the District of Columbia banded together, since, on their own, they could not create jackpots into the tens of millions of dollars that had become commonplace in the most populous lottery states. MUSL's first game was called Lotto*America even though only those seven jurisdictio
Nov 11, 2017, 1:07 am - Coin Toss - Lottery News

Iowa man claims $4.38 million Lotto America prizeNews Story
A Davenport, Iowa, man on Thursday claimed a $4.38 million lottery jackpot, acknowledging he had beaten long odds to win a jackpot with a ticket he received as a free play in a lottery promotion. But Chuck Anderson emphasized he wasn't getting ahead of himself. I'm waiting until the money is deposited, he said. I won't believe it until it's there. Anderson, 52, won Iowa's first jackpot in Lotto America just six months after the game's start. In an interesting twist, his winning ticket
May 10, 2018, 3:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News