Losers from first round of Tokyo 2020 ticket lottery to get second chance
Those who were left empty-handed following the first-round lottery in June will get a second chance to apply for tickets beginning Thursday.
At least $1.6 billion, the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, will be up for grabs during the next Mega Millions draw after no winning tickets were sold for Friday night's draw, the lottery said Saturday. No one hit all of the numbers of 15, ...
Sales of Takarakuji lottery tickets issued by prefectural governments and ordinance-designated major cities totaled ¥786.6 billion in fiscal 2017, down 6.9 percent from the year before. Sales were down for the second consecutive year and fell below ¥800 billion for the first time since fiscal ...
The stuff of dreams: U.S. Mega Millions lottery tops $500 million
The jackpot for Tuesday night's U.S. Mega Millions lottery has reached $522 million, the fifth-largest prize in the game's history, sparking a wave of social media daydreaming about what people do if they won. The next drawing for the prize, following 22, which failed to ...
Lottery tickets in Japan will be sold online from October in bid to boost sales
Aiming to boost slumping sales, the internal affairs ministry said Friday that starting in October, people will be able to purchase tickets online for most public-run lotteries. Gamblers will be able to buy tickets for the popular Jumbo Takarakuji series, which are sold five times ...
Japan's lottery rakes in declining revenues as younger generation gives jackpot chances a pass
Several weeks ago Mavis Wanczyk, a 53-year-old woman from Massachusetts, won $758 million in the Powerball lottery — the largest single winner jackpot in North American history. Wanczyk said at a news conference that she had already quit her job and plans to "hide ...
Mega Millions jackpot at $454 million ahead of Tuesday drawing
The jackpot for Tuesday night's Mega Millions lottery drawing has swollen to $454 million, making it one of the 10 largest prizes in U.S. lottery history, lottery officials said. A drawing for the multistate Mega Millions prize will be held at 11 p.m. EDT (0300 ...
Anonymous donor leaves 2,000 lottery tickets at Tochigi City Hall for flood victims
An anonymous donor left around 2,000 lottery tickets at City Hall in the city of Tochigi, with an accompanying note stating any prize money should be used to help victims of the massive flooding in eastern Japan in September, police said Tuesday. A bag containing ...
NPB chief Kumazaki declines comment on proposed national sports lottery
Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki on Thursday declined comments regarding a recent proposal by lawmakers to make professional baseball the centerpiece of a new lottery. "I am aware of media reports but I have received no concrete or formal contact, and at this time, ...
The multistate Powerball lottery jackpot reached the half-billion dollar mark after rolling over for nearly three months into Wednesday night's drawing, the Powerball website showed. The estimated $500 million jackpot was the third-largest in the game's history and one of the largest lottery jackpots ever ...
Boy's 8,000 unauthorized Twitter accounts net him energy drink bottle lotto bonanza
A high school boy from Saitama Prefecture created some 8,000 Twitter accounts to participate in a lottery over the Internet and won some 70 bottles of an energy drink, it was learned Friday. Twitter prohibits individuals from creating multiple accounts for disruptive or abusive purposes. ...
Are you feeling lucky? Donors who give cash to the city of Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture are being rewarded with unconventional thank-you gifts: lottery tickets. Since November, Ube has been sending stacks of tickets to well-wishers who make a contribution to city coffers through the state-sponsored ...
