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Lottery's Best Odds of Winning $1 Million MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With less than a month remaining until the Pennsylvania Lottery's 16(th) Millionaire Raffle drawing takes place, ticket sales are picking up steam. As of today, 40 percent of the game's 500,000 available tickets have already sold. The Millionaire Raffle, to be drawn on July 6, offers the Pennsylvania Lottery's best odds for winning a million-dollar prize. Each $20 ticket offers a...
NEW YORK, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) today announced that it has signed an instant ticket and cooperative services contract with the South Carolina Education Lottery (SCEL). The new contract provides for game design and development, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and marketing assistance for instant lottery games, as well as inventory management and related services. The five-year contract, which begins on October 1, 2013, was...
CHICAGO, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Summer Cash," a new instant game from the Illinois Lottery, has arrived--just in time for the warm-weather season. Summer Cash offers players the chance to win prizes up to $2,000. Total available prizes exceed $6.2 million, enough to finance many a summer soiree. Summer Cash joins the Lottery's current line-up of popular instant games like Spread the Word, which benefits people living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois, and Free Gas, which features...
NEW YORK, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) today announced that the Company has signed a new lottery systems contract with Szerencsejatek Zrt, the Hungarian State Lottery. The Company was selected for the contract following a competitive procurement process. Under the terms of the contract, which ends December 31, 2020, Scientific Games will implement its AEGIS NGS next-generation central system hardware and software, install additional...
MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Lottery's Cash 5 jackpot has reached $1 million after rolling five times. It has been growing since two tickets won the May 30 jackpot and marks the third time in two months that the Cash 5 jackpot has reached $1 million. On Feb. 6, two Cash 5 tickets shared a game-record $1.9 million jackpot. A Cash 5 ticket worth nearly $1.7 million from the April 19, 2011, drawing holds the record as the largest single,...
Free Gas lottery instant game offers 700+ Gas Card prizes, plus over $7 million in cash prizes CHICAGO, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the summer travel season, the Illinois Lottery has launched a new Free Gas instant lottery game. Under The Good Life family of games, the Free Gas game offers more than 700 Gas Card prizes ranging from $650 to $15,000 worth of gasoline--and the Illinois Lottery will pay state withholding taxes on behalf of winners of any prizes of $1300...
Jackpot-Winning Ticket Sold in New Jersey; June 4 Jackpot Reset to $12 Million MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One Mega Millions® ticket worth $250,000 from the May 31 drawing was sold at Short Stop Mart, 3013 N. Susquehanna Trail, Shamokin Dam, Snyder County. The winning ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 02-20-26-44-46, but not the yellow Mega Ball 26, for a prize of $250,000, less 25 percent federal withholding. The store will receive a $500...
Brand strategy achieves initial result HONG KONG, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VODone Limited ("VODone" or the "Group"; Stock code: 00082), the leading Internet video broadcasting company in China, disclosed the user data of its handset lottery product Lottery 365. As of 27 May, 2013, the number of users downloading Lottery 365 exceeded 10 million. On the morning of June 2nd, 2013, Huang Yan, the General Manager of Liaoning Whowin Football Team, together with the coaches and...
NEW YORK, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) today announced that it has signed a Lottery Gaming Services contract with the Oklahoma Lottery. The new contract provides for lottery systems and services, including terminals and statewide communications, instant ticket printing, warehousing and distribution, technical and sales staff as well as additional lottery services. The contract, which was awarded through a competitive procurement process,...
MIDDLETOWN, Pa., May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A $1 million Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 jackpot from the May 25 drawing will be split by the holders of two winning tickets sold in Berks and Westmoreland counties. The jackpot-winning Cash 5 tickets were sold at: Sunoco Birdsboro Convenience Store, 235 N. Furnace St., Birdsboro, Berks County; and All Aboard Express, 221 S. Broadway St., Scottdale, Westmoreland County. Each ticket correctly matched all five balls,...
