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Lottery News for October, 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 1 lucky player matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Idaho.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
 – Powerball:  The Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 6-16-18-29-37, and the Powerball is 24.  The Power Play number is 2.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Indiana lottery players still hunting year-old jackpot.  More than a year has fallen off the calendar since someone last claimed a Hoosier Lotto jackpot, an unprecedented drought that's raising eyebrows -- in addition to fueling ticket sales and pushing tonight's grand prize to a record $53.5 million.
 – Tenn. Lottery asks firms to pay cost for error.  Tennessee Lottery officials have asked two vendors to pay a total of $1.4 million to make up for losses caused by a computer coding error that compromised the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games in August.
 – Mega Millions: There were no jackpot winners and no $250,000 winners in the Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Mega Millions drawing.  For the complete rundown of winners in each of the other prize categories, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 2-8-44-46-51, and the Mega Ball is 22.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Texas Lottery to add 'Sum It Up' feature to Pick 3 game.  Starting November 11, the Texas Lottery will allow lottery players to place wagers on the sum of the Pick 3 digits drawn, in addition to the current method of play that involves matching the digits drawn.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Sunday, October 28, 2007

 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 8 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 2 from Connecticut, 2 from Louisiana, 1 from Minnesota, 1 from New Mexico, 1 from Oklahoma (1 with Power Play) and 1 from Pennsylvania.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Saturday, October 27, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 13-25-30-40-43, and the Powerball is 12.  The Power Play number is 4.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday, October 26, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from California, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Michigan, and 1 from New York.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Friday, October 26, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Friday, October 26, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 12-20-24-38-51, and the Mega Ball is 3.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!

Thursday, October 25, 2007

 – Employee hacks into online poker site.  A leading Internet poker site said Friday that a hacker exploited a security flaw to gain an insurmountable edge in high-stakes, no-limit Texas holdem tournaments -- the ability to see his opponents' hole cards.
 – Colorado's first Powerball lottery jackpot winners step forward.  Eugen and Stanislawa Markiewicz, a Polish couple with German citizenship who immigrated to the U.S. five years ago, became Colorado's first Powerball jackpot winners Oct. 10 when their personal combination of numbers hit the $20 million jackpot.
 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 1 lucky player matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from North Carolina.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 10-11-18-49-52, and the Powerball is 2.  The Power Play number is 4.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 4 from California, 3 from New York, 1 from Virginia, and 1 from Washington.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 2-7-45-52-53, and the Mega Ball is 18.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticket.  A Long Island woman said a scratch-off lottery ticket she bought in a vending machine had been cut in half when it came out of the machine, but the New York Lottery said the two halves don't match, and they refuse to pay up. The woman plans to sue the lottery to get her winnings.

Monday, October 22, 2007

 – Texas Lottery joins missing seniors program.  The Texas Lottery Commission in September joined the newly-opened Silver Alert Network, which assists efforts by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to find missing senior citizens.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Indiana, 1 from Louisiana (1 with Power Play), 1 from New Hampshire, 1 from Pennsylvania and 1 from Tennessee (1 with Power Play).  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Saturday, October 20, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 10-11-37-40-54, and the Powerball is 10.  The Power Play number is 3.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Divide and Conquer: Meet the Lottery Titans.  Over the last three decades, Gtech and Scientific Games have jointly generated several billion dollars in revenue as vendors to lotteries -- a business that flourishes at the crossroads of capitalism and public policy. In the process, the companies have steadily -- and often controversially -- evolved from minor suppliers into an influential oligopoly with a hammerlock on lottery operations.
 – California looks to British lottery model.  California is seeking to become the first US state to privatize its lottery to raise as much as $37 billion (£18 billion, €26 billion), with some of the funds used to finance governor Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger's sweeping health care reforms.
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday, October 19, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from California, 2 from Georgia, 2 from New York, 1 from Ohio, and 2 from Texas.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Friday, October 19, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Friday, October 19, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 5-15-18-23-46, and the Mega Ball is 14.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 2 from Louisiana (1 with Power Play), 1 from North Carolina (1 with Power Play) and 1 from South Carolina.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 14-15-19-42-46, and the Powerball is 37.  The Power Play number is 4.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Hoosier Lotto in a dry spell.  1 Year. 102 Drawings. 0 Jackpots. Indiana lottery players are grumbling as they join Tennessee's in their shared disdain for the computerized drawing system.
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from California, 1 from Georgia, and 1 from Texas.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 1-2-5-41-44, and the Mega Ball is 25.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Lottery Post member receives Distinguished Service Award.  Lottery Post member "GoArmy" earned the highest-level civilian decoration for saving a woman and two children, at risk of his own life. Read the story of three heros who put the saftey of other people ahead of their own.
Lottery CEO fired one day after poll.  The president of the B.C. Lottery Corporation was fired one day after an internal poll last May showed public trust in the corporation had plummeted in the wake of a warning by the province's Ombudsman of possible fraud by some retailers.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Delaware, 1 from Idaho, 1 from Iowa and 1 from North Carolina.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Saturday, October 13, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 21-30-34-36-49, and the Powerball is 42.  The Power Play number is 3.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday, October 12, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but one lucky player from Ohio matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Friday, October 12, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Friday, October 12, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 21-26-34-44-54, and the Mega Ball is 23.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Restaurant workers split $4 million lottery jackpot.  For 16 people who toil at a new Yorkville restaurant called "ONE", there was something special on the menu that turned out to be the special of the day -- a $4.6 million dollar win in Lotto 6/49.
 – W.V. Lottery Commission approves 24-7 table gaming.  A unanimous vote Thursday of 6 to 0 by the state lottery commission will allow racetracks to operate table games 24 hours a day 7 days a week, but there's still no date for when dealers will be passing out the cards.
 – Calif. Gov: Sell lottery to fund health care.  Hoping to rejuvenate lagging negotiations over health care reform, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that he wants to use the state lottery to help finance his plan that would require all Californians to have health insurance.
 – Tattersall's loses lottery monopoly.  In Australia, Tattersall's 54-year monopoly on Victoria's lotteries has been broken as the State Government seeks to make more money from the lucrative market.
 – CPA turns $2 into $13M lottery jackpot.  After one Illinois resident he discovered he was the single winner of $13.5 million Illinois Lotto jackpot, he "couldn't stop laughing."

Thursday, October 11, 2007

 – Colorado chalks up its first Powerball winner.  A ticket sold in the Denver metro area matched all six numbers in the Powerball jackpot Wednesday night -- the first time a Powerball winning ticket has been sold in the state.
 – Powerball Jackpot Winner!  There was one $20 million jackpot winner from Colorado in the Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Powerball drawing.  More details to follow after the winner comes forward to claim their prize.
 – Bear draws lottery tickets.  Trainers have taught a black bear, named Echo, to spin a drum and draw a raffle ticket out of it.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 12-16-31-33-54, and the Powerball is 5.  The Power Play number is 4.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – S.C. Lottery Director: Profit losses leveling off.  Sales of South Carolina lottery tickets initially sank as gas prices climbed, but customers seem to have gotten used to paying more at the pump, the state's lottery director said Wednesday.
 – Lottery fraudster spared prison.  A Belfast woman who falsely claimed more than £40,000 (US$75,000) in benefits after she had won nearly £60,000 (US$110,000) playing the UK National Lottery has been spared jail.
 – Mass. Lottery plans big expansion of keno-style game.  The Massachusetts state lottery, which fell short of revenue projections last year, is dramatically expanding a keno-style game in a move it estimates could bring in an additional $160 million annually, officials said.
 – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Mega Millions drawing, but one lucky player from Michigan matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 1-10-17-32-51, and the Mega Ball is 44.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!

Monday, October 8, 2007

 – CBS publishes second hatchet job on lottery.  CBS News, currently the lowest-rated broadcast network of the "big three", today ran its second story in the past month attempting to dig dirt on lotteries in America.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

 – Tenn. Lottery CEO claims recent errors didn't hurt sales.  Three recent mistakes made by the Tennessee Lottery have not hurt ticket sales, the lottery's president and CEO said, but the legislator who led the effort to create the lottery questions the lottery's move to computerized drawings.
 – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Indiana, 1 from Minnesota and 1 from South Dakota.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Saturday, October 06, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 8-30-32-33-51, and the Powerball is 2.  The Power Play number is 3.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Mega Millions Jackpot Winner!  There was one $26 million jackpot winner from Maryland in the Friday, October 05, 2007 Mega Millions drawing.  More details to follow after the winner comes forward to claim their prize.
Also, one lucky player from Virginia matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

Friday, October 5, 2007

 – Mega Millions:  The Friday, October 05, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 10-19-37-40-48, and the Mega Ball is 1.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Lottery competition between two border states.  A Tennessee newspaper examines two competing lotteries -- Georgia and Tennessee -- to highlight the similarities and differences, and to examine the issue of gambling.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

 – W. Va. video lottery parlors warned to limit ads.  West Virginia video lottery parlors could lose all but one of their machines if they exploit last week's federal ruling that removes limits on the words they can use in advertising, a group representing machine leasing businesses warns.
 – 2 Oklahoma lottery pools win big.  Two winning lottery tickets were redeemed Wednesday with the winnings going to employees at two Tulsa-area businesses, according to the Oklahoma Lottery.
 – New $20 Mass. Lottery scratch game off to a record start.  The Massachusetts State Lottery rolled the dice when it launched its first ever $20 instant ticket, the most expensive new product in its history, but a week after its big rollout the gamble appears to be paying off.
 – Powerball Jackpot Winner!  There was one $15 million jackpot winner from Connecticut in the Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Powerball drawing.  More details to follow after the winner comes forward to claim their prize.
Also, 10 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Connecticut (1 with Power Play), 1 from Iowa, 2 from Kentucky, 1 from New Hampshire, 2 from Oregon, 2 from Pennsylvania and 1 from Rhode Island.  For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

 – Powerball:  The Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 2-4-14-15-28, and the Powerball is 23.  The Power Play number is 4.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!
 – Mega Millions: There were no jackpot winners and no $250,000 winners in the Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Mega Millions drawing.  For the complete rundown of winners in each of the other prize categories, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.
 – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 28-37-40-43-44, and the Mega Ball is 20.  To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results.  We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega.  Good luck!

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