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The Pennsylvania Lottery is a lottery operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on August 26, 1971; [1] two months later, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first executive director. The Pennsylvania Lottery sold its first tickets on March 7, 1972 and drew its first numbers on March 15 ...
The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6 , were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
A single ticket purchased in Pennsylvania matched all six numbers to win the Powerball jackpot. Nobody matched all five numbers except for the Powerball worth $1 million. Double Play numbers are 5 ...
In case you're wondering, the winning numbers for the Powerball lottery drawing on Wednesday, Aug. 14, were 8-9-23-29-62 and the Powerball was 13. Power Play was 2x. Tickets start at $2 a piece.
August 13, 2024 at 12:44 AM. One lucky lottery player in Pennsylvania matched all six balls in Monday night's Powerball to win the estimated $214 million, according to the Powerball website. The ...
Today, many state lotteries offer similar "daily numbers" games, typically relying on mechanical devices to draw the number. The state's rake is typically 50% rather than the 20–40% of the numbers game. The New York Lottery and Pennsylvania Lottery even use the names "Numbers" and "Daily Number" respectively. Despite the existence of legal ...
This particular game was called Winfall. A ticket cost $1. You picked six numbers, 1 through 49, and the Michigan Lottery drew six numbers. Six correct guesses won you the jackpot, guaranteed to be at least $2 million and often higher. If you guessed five, four, three, or two of the six numbers, you won lesser amounts.
Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.