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Lottery petition attacks computerized drawingsNews Story
A popular lottery Internet Web site is opposing a controversial industry trend head-on, in an attempt to eliminate computer-generated drawings from all US lottery games.Among the 41 states and the District of Columbia offering lottery games to the public, there are approximately 175 different lottery games. In almost every one of those games the player selects three or more numbers, and those numbers are compared against numbers randomly selected by the state lottery to determine who is the win
Aug 29, 2004, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Numbers Drawing SuspicionsNews Story
The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.Yesterday, 5048 was the winning Big 4 number, as seen on Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Results Page. On Saturday, 8504 was the winning number, and 5408 hit on Friday.Also, 4508 hit in the Aug. 9 midday Big 4 drawing.The odds of any one four-digit number hitting on a given day are 1-in-10,000. Someone who regularly plays a boxed ticket -- that is, uses the same four digits, but rearranges them t
Aug 24, 2004, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Lottery machines fail before jackpotNews Story
With a $76 million Powerball jackpot waiting Saturday night, some Horry County, South Carolina lottery machines broke down during the weekend.A stroke of bad luck caused an Internet service provider not to recognize some lottery machines.Larry Sanders said the machine at his Food Shoppe in the Red Hill section of Conway stopped connecting about 10 or 10:30 p.m. Friday. His store couldn't provide lottery tickets until shortly after 2 p.m. Monday.The Powerball drawings are at 10:59 p.m. Wednesdays
Aug 10, 2004, 9:45 am - Lottery News

GTECH rolls out self-serve lottery machinesNews Story
GTECH sees its new vending machines as the next wave in the industryGTECH Holdings Corp. is about to make it easier for shoppers to get in on the big money.The West Greenwich, Rhode Island lottery provider yesterday unveiled a new vending machine that doles out instant and traditional lottery tickets directly to shoppers.These machines not only allow people to buy scratch-off tickets like they buy a can of soda, they also include a touch screen that allows players to choose their own numbers and
Jul 28, 2004, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Lottery foul-ups rare but expensiveNews Story
Lottery mistakes don't happen often, but when they do they're costly resulting in multiple awards or increases in the prize money.Here are some lottery foul-ups from across the country in recent years: Earlier this month, a missing nine ball in a drawing machine led the New Hampshire lottery to honor two winning numbers. It was the second double payout resulting from missing balls in the state's lottery drawing machines this year. In April, the Wisconsin lottery posted an incorrect winning num
Jul 19, 2004, 8:20 am - Lottery News

Minnesota top pull-tab stateNews Story
Imagine that every fruitless pull of a casino's slot machine produced a colorful bit of trash and you get an idea of how the garbage bins at American Legion Post 1776 overflow on a good night.Last year $6.4 million worth of pull-tabs were sold from this tidy metal-clad hall -- tops in a state that is tops in the nation -- allowing Post 1776 to pass a profit of $246,000 on to hundreds of schools, sports programs and charities.Though they're sold without the glamor of Las Vegas or the marketing bu
Jul 5, 2004, 8:32 am - Lottery News

W.V. Lottery sets single-month sales recordNews Story
But record year could be jeopardized if Pa., Md. legalize slotsMay was a record sales month in what will be a record year for the West Virginia Lottery, with profits to the state topping the half-billion-dollar mark.However, Lottery Director John Musgrave warned Tuesday that the lotterys halcyon days could be over possibly as early as today with the imminent legalization of video slots in Pennsylvania.That will certainly affect our net [income] and our play in West Virginia, Musgrave said of the
Jun 30, 2004, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Casino deal leads GTECH to rethink R.I. investmentsNews Story
The company warns that it may not go ahead with its plans because bills before the General Assembly fail to provide it with a portion of the slot machines in a new gaming facility.Citing the casino legislation in front of the General Assembly, GTECH Holdings Corp. is reviewing its planned investments in Rhode Island -- including its proposed $88.5-million corporate headquarters in downtown Providence.GTECH says the two casino bills before the General Assembly do not guarantee that it can operate
Jun 24, 2004, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Drive-up lottery store opensNews Story
Theres no fuzzy intercom, and you cant super size it, but a new drive-through dedicated almost entirely to selling lottery tickets has popped up near the N.C. state line.The DriveThru Lottery I-777 has been open about a month, selling everything from scratch-off games and Powerball tickets to cigarettes and soda. Its off I-77 near the Carowinds amusement park less than a mile inside South Carolina, where the lottery is legal.A menu board picturing some 20 scratch-off games greets customers just
Jun 21, 2004, 7:19 am - Lottery News

474 keeps coming up in Pennsylvania LotteryNews Story
Wanna make a quick $250? Or maybe more?If recent history is any indication -- which it isn't -- play 474 on today's Daily Number, and you just may beat the long odds. The number has hit four times since May 17, when 474 was drawn as the midday Daily Number. On May 29, the number hit during the evening drawing. And Saturday, the number hit twice, once in the afternoon and again that evening.The odds of that happening are quite literally one in a million. That's better than your odds of hitting a
Jun 15, 2004, 8:06 am - Lottery News