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Michigan Resident Surprised to Win $150,000 Big Game Prize. Donald Watkins of Plymouth, Michigan was thrilled to discover he was holding a winning $150,000 Big Game ticket from the February 5 Big Game drawing.Virginia Man Wins $150,000 Playing The Big Game. Melvin Lightfoot of Richmond, Virginia matched the first 5 numbers in the February 12 Big Game drawing for a $150,000 prize.Record California jackpot produced three winners. Stories from before and after the drawing:
Three Tickets Match in Calif. Lottery - AP
Three tickets match winning numbers for $193 million lottery - San Francisco Chronicle
3 winning tickets in $193 million lottery - CNN
State in Throes of Lottery Madness - Los Angeles Times
Patrons, Retailers Dream Big - Los Angeles Times
Workers Unite for a Big Payday - Los Angeles Times
Big lottery winners know a lot about what not to do - San Francisco Chronicle
Nevadans line up for chance to win long-shot jackpot - Las Vegas Sun
A record jackpot -- and wealth of potential pitfalls - Sacramento Bee
Lottery dreams by the millions - Daily Breeze
Five-month-old jackpot lottery ticket found in glovebox. A Canadian couple have found a £2 million winning lottery ticket among a stack dating back five months.Dreaming of Pigs Still Good for Winning Lottery. What does it mean if Koreans see pigs in their dreams? Having dreams of pigs was still found to be effective in predicting a winning lottery ticket.Connecticut lottery celebrates 30 years, $6.8 billion in prizes. "When ticket sales began in 1972, even the lottery's strongest supporters could not have envisioned today's success," said James J. Vance, lottery president and CEO.
Sunday, February 17, 2002
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Record Calif lotto had 3 winning tickets. Three tickets had the winning numbers in California's record $193 million state lottery drawing, officials announced Sunday.
Saturday, February 16, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 1 lucky player from Illinois matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, February 15, 2002
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Ohio hopes Big Game a winner. New confirmation of upcoming Big Game changes:
The Big Game states have officially voted to include Ohio as a member
Big Game tickets will be sold in Ohio starting late May or early June
The Big Game may surpass Powerball as the game consistently having the largest jackpots
The Big Game will be reconfigured to include a larger pool of numbers to select from
"Astronomical jackpots" to rival or surpass the U.S. record $363 million Big Game jackpot awarded in May 2000 may happen multiple times per year
We can't wait!
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $9 million Big Game drawing results!Is Big Game A Big Mistake?. Millions of dollars are expected to flow into Ohio now that the state has agreed to carry the Big Game lottery, but opinions in Tri-State are mixed about its arrival.Record jackpot has California in a frenzy
Lottery pools spring up for chance at $170 million jackpot - San Diego Union Tribune
No winner in lottery jackpot, next drawing estimated at $170 million - The Mercury-News
Giant jackpot sets hearts to racing - San Francisco Chronicle
Lotto jackpot soars to record $170 million - MSNBC
$171 Million Dollar Lotto Jackpot for Saturday - KPIX
Lottery machine licenses available, but officials satisfied with revenue. West Virginia State lottery officials told the committee that the licensing and installation of the machines in bars, clubs and fraternal organizations is running ahead of projections, even though licenses to operate nearly 3,300 machines remain unclaimed.Instant lottery prize
remains unclaimed. A $100,000 West Virginia Lottery instant ticket prize has yet to be claimed, although only 65,000 game tickets remain for sale, according to a news release.Lottery player hits on dream number. Ming Vo told Virginia Lottery officials the numbers 3-1-0-2 came to him in a dream. So when the Greensboro man woke up Monday, he headed across the state line to Danville, Va., and bought 100 tickets for the Pick 4 daytime drawing. By selecting those four numbers in that exact order, Vo's dream came true. Each $1 ticket was a winner worth $5,000, for a grand total of $500,000.Speaker proposes to extend Colorado Lottery to 2024. The Colorado Lottery would be extended to 2024, allowing 20-year bonding of land-conservation purchases by the state, under a bill advancing in the Legislature.Lottery ticket thief suspect caught when numbers come up. A New Jersey man who allegedly stole dozens of lottery tickets was arrested trying to cash one which won.
Thursday, February 14, 2002
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Saturday's California Lottery Jackpot to Set Record: Estimated at $170 Million. Oops! We were mistaken when we reported earlier today about Saturday's California Lottery jackpot being $135 million -- it is actually $170 million! I guess we jumped the gun this morning with the time difference. (Thanks for the tip, Patrick.)
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California Lottery jackpot reaches $136 million. As it stands now, $136 million is the second-largest jackpot in the 16-year history of the California state lottery. Depending on sales over the next few days, the jackpot could easily eclipse the current record of $141 million.Big lotto jackpot not what it seems. All you lottery dreamers salivating over the California Lottery jackpot, try this: Take the fortune in your bank account. Buy 41,416,353 Super Lotto Plus tickets, one for every possible combination. Then, no matter the winning number, you win. Sound impossible? It's been tried before.Texas Lotto Numbers Are In -- And They're Down. The Texas Lottery Commission says average weekly sales were down 2% in the first six months of the state's fiscal year.Tribe Vows to Reopen Texas Casino. A casino operated by the Tigua Indians has been shut down as required by court order, but the tribe's leader vowed that it would reopen.
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
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Osama Bin Laden scratch-off lottery game proposed. A bill introduced Monday in the Minnesota House would put bin Laden's image on a state lottery scratch-off ticket. Players would discover any winnings by scratching off "and thus obliterating," as the bill notes, bin Laden's face.Newspapers protest lottery numbers ad. Complaints from the newspaper industry prompted the Missouri Lottery Commission to apologize for a radio spot touting its Web site as the place to check winning numbers. Editor: That's right, you should always wait until the next day to check your numbers in the newspaper.Harassed gardener makes lottery plea. A gardener has asked Germany's lottery headquarters to confirm he's not won their £5.5 million jackpot after the Lotto company released a description of the winner which exactly matched him.Residents pin hopes to lottery audition tapes. About 60 South Carolina residents dropped by Columbiana Centre on Monday afternoon, bringing audition tapes and high hopes of announcing nightly numbers for the S.C. lottery.Taiwan Lottery Breaks Record for Transactions. According to TaipeiBank, the sixth computerized lottery draw broke the world record for the highest number of transactions for a single draw, while also recording the fifth-highest amount in terms of turnover.Lottery to amend contract rules. Out-of-state companies that have done business with the Texas lottery say a new rule for awarding contracts unfairly favors Texas-based firms and could force some of the world's leading lottery firms out of the Texas market, one of the nation's largest.Lottery's free drawing hits a snag. The California Lottery's free $1 million drawing to make amends for past missteps in its Scratcher games has fallen about half an inch short. Hopeful players who mailed entries on 3-inch-by-5-inch cards -- as directed by materials distributed by the lottery -- are finding them returned from the post office bearing a red "undersized" stamp.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 2 in Georgia, 2 in Illinois, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
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Ohio Lottery announces state will apply to the Big Game. More detail about Ohio's decision to join the Big Game, including the Georgia and Michigan Lottery Directors' expected trip to Cleveland on Wednesday, and the ongoing lawsuit to stop the multistate lottery expansion.
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $7 million Big Game drawing results!News Alert: Ohio Lottery to join The Big Game. The Ohio Lottery is expected to announce that Ohio will become the ninth Big Game state. Although seven states currently participate in The Big Game, New York announced in December that they will participate in The Big Game starting in the spring of 2002. It is also expected at that time that The Big Game will undergo changes, such as a revamped prize structure, in order to increase the jackpots.Lottery players setting sights on $115 million. California lottery players are scooping up SuperLotto Plus tickets in hopes of cashing in Wednesday on the California Lottery's projected $115 million jackpot.
Monday, February 11, 2002
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Multistate lottery opponents seek injunction. Plaintiffs challenging Ohio's interest in joining a multistate lottery have sought an injunction to prevent Ohio from proceeding.Lottery: Easley way out of deficit. While campaigning for an education lottery with farmers gathered in Greensboro for an annual conference, North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley told reporters he can wait until May for legislators to return.
And when they do, he will again ask for a lottery to pay for education.Kirk says lottery would hurt education budgets, projects. Disagreement abounds on whether to institute a North Carolina lottery or not.Sheriff: Lottery winner shoots her ex-husband in abduction. The former Waffle House waitress who gained national attention for her court fight to hold onto a $10 million Florida lottery prize shot and wounded her ex-husband in an alleged kidnapping, a sheriff says.Kansas Lottery announces Super Kansas Cash game. Beginning Feb. 18, the Kansas Lottery will draw numbers for a "Super Kansas Cash" game, which will give players more chances to win.Ariz. Lottery backers want games until 2012. Voters must OK continuing Arizona lottery operations because former House Speaker Jeff Groscost added those provisions to the 1998 legislation that reauthorized the lottery.
Saturday, February 9, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 1 lucky player from Illinois matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, February 8, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $5 million Big Game drawing results!Illinois Man Wins $150,000 Big Game Prize. A computer specialist with Scott Air Force Base matched the first five numbers in the Big Game drawing for January 4, 2002 for a $150,000 Big Game prize.Voters Mixed Over Gambling Issue. As a state lottery and other forms of gambling are being contemplated in Hawaii, some fear it could change their way of life while others said gambling could bring the lifeblood of cash into a struggling economy.Lottery 'losers' win trip to Hawaii. Bob and Tanya Jaeggi of Columbus, Nebraska wanted to go to Hawaii. So Tanya bought several Nebraska Lottery Scratch tickets in hopes of losing -- that's right, losing.N.C. Treasurer gives lottery cold shoulder. North Carolina State Treasurer Richard Moore said Wednesday he doubts a lottery will fix the state's budget troubles.Lottery job may be ticket to fame. The South Carolina lottery commission, looking for an on-air personality to announce the winning numbers on nightly telecasts, is accepting applications.Andrew N.S. Glazer: Counter rudeness with a calm head. A recent visit to Vegas provided a lesson on how to stand up for yourself when you're not treated well at a casino.
