Lottery Post

How a rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery and won millions of dollars around the world. Virginia, Insider Buzz, International, Jackpots, Pool, General Interest

Authorities have arrested three San Jose, California, men and are seeking at least one other suspected of breaking into Bay Area businesses to steal lottery […]

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 […]

The California Lottery is postponing a planned sales conference in the wake of an anonymous employee’s recent complaint to Gov. Jerry Brown about senior leaders behaving […]

Legalization of sports betting in West Virginia has reached another milestone, with the issuing of the first sports betting licenses by the state Lottery Commission. […]

In Japan, sales of Takarakuji lottery tickets issued by prefectural governments and ordinance-designated major cities totaled ¥786.6 billion (US$7.1 billion) in fiscal 2017, down 6.9 […]

A single ticket sold in New York state won Saturday’s Powerball jackpot worth $245.6 million, lottery officials announced early Sunday. Powerball, Jackpots, New York, Winning […]

A package of bawdy photos allegedly showing senior state Lottery leaders carrying on at a Southern California piano bar, with one image showing an official […]

An investigative article explores if scratch-off tickets are distributed to the same counties in the same sequence every month in North Carolina. IGT, Scientific Games, […]

Customers strolling into a South San Jose Wells Fargo this morning had no idea that millionaires would be cashing their checks. Mega Millions, Winner Stories, […]

Kentucky Pick 3 and Pick 4 lottery players now have an option to win just by getting close the numbers drawn. Kentucky, Changing Game, Poker, […]

The Connecticut Lottery’s longtime security director claims that an attempt to discipline him over the botched Jan. 1 raffle drawing is part of a pattern […]

The California Lottery says last month’s $543 million Mega Millions jackpot was won by 11 members of an office pool that played on a whim. Mega Millions, […]

The winners of a £57.9 million (US$67.3 million) EuroMillions jackpot were initially told they did not have a winning ticket and it was ripped in half […]

An interview with an employee of Australia’s largest lottery operator, The Lott, who makes calls every day to information lottery players that they won. Insider […]

A newly unsealed memo shows the Iowa Lottery kept marketing four popular games despite an August 2015 warning from its security chief that their integrity […]

A new Illinois lottery game will generate money to help the families of police officers killed or severely hurt in the line of duty. Illinois, […]

An over $70 million lottery upgrade launched this week in Kansas. Kansas, Scientific Games, Vendors, Retailer, Technology, Ticket Machine, Operations, Video

The Bermuda Governor’s office has stonewalled questions about whether it knew the sale of American lottery tickets in Bermuda was branded a potential breach of […]

The deadline has passed for a large lottery jackpot to be claimed and as a result, the state School Aid Fund will benefit from it. […]

For one firm, it will be something like winning the Powerball: A state government contract worth more than $800 milion that comes along just once […]

A winning ticket to the 11th-largest U.S. lottery prize ever was sold at a liquor store in San Jose, California. Mega Millions, California, Jackpots, Winning […]

For the second time in two days, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot has been raised due to surging ticket sales for a chance to […]

A rush of ticket sales for the half-billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Tuesday night drawing to $512 […]

After 22 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of nearly a half-billion dollars that could […]

A thief looking for some good luck busted through the roof of a grocery store and took hundreds of dollars worth of lottery tickets on […]

The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game continued its Summer climb Tuesday night, and is now at the point where jackpot rolls are sharply increased. Mega Millions, Jackpots, […]

A woman from Greenville, South Carolina, won $250,000 on a lottery ticket she didn’t even pick, but what she’ll do with the money will surprise […]

A woman awarded half of a $1.2 million lottery prize in Nova Scotia says her nephew is “dead” to her after he took half of […]

A Lebanon, Oregon, man was arrested after he sent a shooting threat in an e-mail to the Oregon Lottery. Legal, Oregon, Law Enforcement, Arrest, Crime

A Massachusetts man who has been playing the same numbers for 26 years won big when those numbers were drawn on the evening that he […]

Season ticket holder Christopher Voelker of Raynham, Massachusetts, is the winner of a $2.97 million jackpot prize in the state lottery’s Megabucks Doubler drawing that […]

Pennsylvania’s brand new online lottery, the iLottery, reported sales of $21.6 million in its first 26 days from its launch on June 4, despite the […]

Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May overturning a federal law that had prohibited legalized sports betting in all but Nevada, Iowa lawmakers, retailers […]

The Multi-State Lottery Association’s leadership for fiscal year 2019 has been set with the election of new Board & Game Chair Positions. Insider Buzz, Administration, […]

A Maryland man who unknowingly struck gold with a scratch-off also hit the jackpot with his choice of friends, as the lotto player’s pal alerted him to […]

Winning the lottery once was exciting for Cheyenne Long of Kalispell, Montana, but winning it twice in one day was unbelievable. Winner Stories, Montana, Scratch […]

An instant ticket factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is the second-largest producer of scratch-off tickets in the world and prints up to 30 different “games,” or […]

The Connecticut Lottery Corp.’s governing board voted Thursday to hire Gregory Smith, acting director of the Illinois Lottery, as its new CEO — in hopes […]

A father and son from Newport News, Virginia, won a combined $400,000 with four Cash 5 lottery tickets. Virginia, Winner Stories, Pick 5, Won multiple […]