State Lottery News

As we head through the middle of October, Lottery jackpots all across the nation are on the rise. There are as many as 5 state lotteries throughout the country with jackpots of at least $10 million.

The Illinois Lottery's Lotto game jackpot is at $10 million for Saturday night's drawing after no winner was recorded on Wednesday. Illinois' Lotto game holds drawings every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday night's. For a minimum bet of $1, players get two chances to match six numbers... Full Story

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The Florida Lottery jackpot for Saturday will be $15 million. There was no winner for Wednesday night's drawing. Wednesday's numbers were; 2, 9, 30, 34, 39, and 53. 

"I don't mind when the jackpot is not that high, less people play and feel like I have a better chance to be the only winner." Says Kimberly Fontaine, of Lake City, Florida. "It's a lot of money.".. Full Story

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Arkansas may well be the next state to run a lottery. Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter is leading a movement to chandw the state constitution to allow the creation of a state lottery.

Champions of the institution of a lottery estimate over $100 million could be raised in annual revenue for the state. Missouri officials said the running of an Arkansas lottery could cost Missouri's system as much as $25 million... Full Story

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It was not a good night on Saturday if you were one of the people who were expecting the major lotteries around the country to grow. All of the lotteries that had large jackpots going into the night came away with winners.

The California Lottery was growing throughout the week leading into Saturday. It will start over again for their next draw after the grand prize was hit. It was not alone, however.

The multi-state Powerball lottery was headed towards a grand prize of $100 million. That was before Saturday. After the weekend that jackpot will drop back down to $15 million for Wednesday... Full Story

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While casinos around the country are having problems with their  revenue numbers for the first time in a long time, state lotteries are not suffering from a similar fate. State lotteries are setting ticket sale records all across North America.

Iowa is the newest state to report that they have broken a sales record. They reported sales of nearly $250 million for the fiscal year that recently ended. The sales were a six percent increase from the previous year.

The Iowa Lottery began back in 1985 and has steadily increased... Full Story

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The state of Kentucky has been known for a lot of things. Being a leader in lottery sales was not one of those things. That is, until this past year. The state set a new record for ticket sales in the fiscal year that just ended.

The Kentucky Lottery Corp. revealed on Monday that in the fiscal year that ended this past June 30th, the state set a record for their amount of ticket sales. The record was broken for the second year in a row.

$778.2 million was accumulated in the past fiscal year. That was $34 million more than the record that the state set last year... Full Story

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The lottery numbers have been coming in for the past fiscal year, and surprisingly many states are seeing record numbers. Colorado is one of those lucky states.

The Colorado Lottery has announced that they have set a record in the amount of sales from their tickets in the fiscal year that ended on June 30th. They reported sales of $505.8 million.

Scratch tickets were the primary reason that the sales have jumped. The scratch off tickets sold a record $336 million. That figure was 13.1 percent higher than the sales from 2007's fiscal year... Full Story

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State lotteries around the country are trying to come up with all kinds of ways to market their product in the face of an economic recession. They may already have the best marketing tool available and they don't even realize it.

The lottery provides people with a chance to dream. A chance that one lucky dollar could produce the answers to these tough economic times. Lottery tickets are perceived as a way out for many Americans.

State lotteries have chosen to ignore their marketing tool and proceed with amped up efforts to get people playing. With the gas crisis going on in America, many lotteries have combined free gas with their promotional efforts... Full Story

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The Iowa Lottery has come up with a way to give back to their Veterans. They have come up with a new scratch off ticket that was revealed today where the winnings will go to the Veterans Trust Fund.

The new tickets called "Stars and Stripes" will sell for $1. All of the profits from the tickets  will go directly into the veterans account. Money will then be accrued through interest, and the money will go towards different areas to help out veterans... Full Story

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Six months have passed and still no winner has come to claim three tickets for the Montana Millionaire lottery game. Two of those tickets were worth $100,000.

The drawing for the winning tickets were on the last day of 2007 and when the six month mark was met in June and the tickets were still unclaimed, the money went back into the state's general fund.

Jo Berg, a Montana lottery spokesperson, said that the $200,000 will be included in quarterly lottery transfers come December and the $10,000 for the third ticket, which was a 'Hot Lotto' ticket, will be... Full Story

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A $20 million lawsuit that was filed against the Indiana Hoosier State Lottery has gotten class-action status. That means that anyone who lost money on the fraudulent tickets may now join the lawsuit.

The lawsuit originated from two men, Jeff Frazier and Jeff Koehlinger. They claimed that they lost $40,000 and $2,400 in the scratch off lottery game Cash Blast. They filed the lawsuit after finding out that half of the tickets that were printed for that game were defective... Full Story

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Last week, we reported on how a man was suing his state's lottery for selling lottery tickets that already had the top prize cashed in. The man claims he and others were deceived by the tickets.

Now, a broader report has been done that has unveiled that many states have been partaking in the same practice. They have been selling tickets to games where the top prize has already been paid.

The scam is getting much attention throughout the country, and the backlash could be devastating for state lotteries. Ticket sales have already been lagging before the news of the ticket scam was brought out into the public... Full Story

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The Kansas Lottery cannot be happy with what they had to do this week. There was a glitch in their reporting system this week and it has caused the lottery to pay Pick 3 numbers that never came out.

The lottery admitted that they made a mistake in reporting Pick 3 numbers from Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday of last week. The numbers they reported were not the ones that were chosen.

The lottery claims that the number generator worked effectively, but that there was an error in the reporting of the winning numbers... Full Story

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The Colorado Lottery is joining lottery's from other states who are trying to come up with innovative ways to sell tickets. The latest idea from Colorado is their introduction of their latest lottery ticket, a scratch and sniff game.

The scratch and sniff ticket will target mostly the women audience since they are the majority of the ticket buyers in the state. The tickets will come in three different smells, Chocolate Crossword, Crossword Bouquet, and Coffee Crossword.

The tickets will sell for $3 each starting on Monday... Full Story

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