$20 lottery game unlikely to break even
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State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said yesterday that the lottery's $20 sweepstakes game is unlikely to break even, one of the rare instances when a game failed to pay for itself.
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Here's a good bet. If Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to do some gambling in Nevada, check out the blackjack table. "I'm not much of a gambler, but I have gambled," the New York senator said in a brief interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, adding that her favorite game probably is blackjack.
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Tycho: We'll be going over PAX preregistrants soon to determine this year's Omeganauts, and anyone who has registered by June 15th is eligible. If you'd like to hurl yourself into the running, please do so at your earliest convenience. This year's Omega Prize differs substantially from our offerings in the past. Here's how: Winner and guest secure passage to this year's Tokyo Game Show, flight and Hotel included, assisted by five thousand dollars in cash as a kind of general purpose "Misbehavior Fund." Ain't a bad wage for three days' work. (CW)TB
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Gabe: Just a reminder that the last day to purchase tickets for the Child"s Play charity dinner and auction is Thursday. New items for the auction are coming in every day. I wanted to let you all know that we"ll have items in all different price ranges. I know last year we talked about items going for ten and twenty thousand dollars. Trust me when I tell you that you can come with significantly less than that and walk out with something cool. Even if you don"t want to bid on anything it"s a really fun event to watch. Either way, Thursday is the last day to get your tickets.
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MEGA MILLIONS, Sept. 16  /PRNewswire/ -- One ticket has won it all. Somewhere there is a ticket worth an estimated $163 million.  That ticket, which was purchased in Bainbridge, Georgia, matched all six numbers in the September 15, 2006 Mega Millions drawing.
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Massive windfall House of Cards The biggest betting day of the year - Super Bowl Sunday - has come and gone, and the numbers are in. Legal wagers in the State of Nevada totaled $93.1m, down slightly from last year's figure of $94.5m.â¦
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MEGA MILLIONS, June 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Lucky players nationwide continue to win big with Mega Millions.  In Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, a total of 412,035 tickets from coast to coast won prizes, including five tickets that each won $250,000.
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The biggest jackpot in lottery history could be won later in the Euromillions draw played across nine countries.
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BOSTON - A 94-year-old woman who won a $5.6 million dollar Megabucks lottery drawing in September wants to get the cash now instead of a 20-year annuity payout.
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A woman from Newfoundland purchased a lottery ticket worth &#36;17.7 million Saturday, after scolding her husband for buying the wrong ticket.
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The only winning ticket for a $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.
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The biggest jackpot in lottery history could be won later in the EuroMillions draw played across nine countries.
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The only thing fans want the Philadelphia 76ers to win these days is the draft lottery. The playoffs are far out of reach for the third-worst team in the NBA, so winning games won't do anything except lower the number of available ping pong balls.
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The Massachusetts Lottery, already struggling to reach this year's revenue targets, is having trouble selling tickets for its new $20 sweepstakes.
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Five years ago, Don J. Wims received a call telling him he had won $425,000 in a Spanish lottery. All he had to do, the voice on the other end of the line said, was pay $1,800 in taxes and handling fees and the money would be his.
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No tickets matched all six numbers in the latest WinFall drawing, raising the jackpot for Saturday&#39;s game to $2.9 million. Saturday&#39;s $2.
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No ticket matched all four numbers and the MegaBall in Friday&#39;s Mega Money drawing of the Florida Lottery. The numbers drawn were 10-18-19-22; the Megaball was 6. Twelve tickets matched four of the numbers