$33 MILLION POT LURES LOTTO PLAYERS.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer With dollar signs in their eyes, state lottery A game of chance operated by a state government. Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar. players hope to cash in tonight on a jackpot expected to reach $33 million, the biggest since the first SuperLotto Plus drawing on June 7. Buyers are expected to spend $6 million on tickets today, doubling Friday's $3 million pace, said California Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston. ``I'm buying for this jackpot because it's big money,'' said Hashmatallah Najib, a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. taxi cab driver cab·driv·er also cab driver n. One who drives a taxicab for hire. cab driver n → taxista m/f cab driver n → . ``If I win, I'm going to buy a house and go travel.'' If no one wins the jackpot tonight, the prize money is likely to grow to more than $40 million by the next drawing on Wednesday night, Johnston said. A manager at a Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. 7-Eleven store, who did not wish to be identified, said the store sold $358 worth of SuperLotto Plus tickets by early Friday afternoon, adding that he expected a swarm of buyers today. ``I expect a rush the whole day,'' the manager said. The old SuperLotto, which involved a choice of six numbers, was changed to SuperLotto Plus in June after prompting by retailers seeking higher sales and customers craving craving Psychology A strong desire to consume a particular substance–eg of abuse, or food; craving is a major factor in relapse and/or continued use after withdrawal from a substance of abuse and is both imprecisely defined and difficult to measure. higher jackpots, Johnston said. The new game requires customers to choose five numbers from one field ranging from one to 47 and a sixth Mega number Many states have set up lottery games that award a substantial prize, often in the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to some lucky winner or group of winners. Such games often go by the name of Mega Millions, Hot Lotto, or Powerball. ranging from one to 27. The change affords more chances at winning larger amounts of money since the odds have increased from 1 in 18 million to 1 in 41 million, with more ``roll overs'' expected as the unclaimed jackpot grows after each drawing. Kyra Griffiths, 42, of Woodland Hills said she thought it was harder to win with the new game. ``I see it keeps rolling over. . . . I think I prefer the old (game),'' she said. The new game starts with a jackpot of $7 million, as opposed to $4 million under the old game. If a ticket holder correctly guesses the Mega number, he at least gets back his $1 ticket cost. Since the debut of the new game, there have been four winning tickets. On June 10, three people split a $32 million jackpot. On June 21, an individual won a jackpot of $15 million. On July 1, an individual won a $14 million jackpot. On July 15, a $21 million jackpot was split by 10 people. The 7-Eleven manager said he noticed a slight increase in sales since the switch to the new game. ``Many people don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. yet about the SuperLotto Plus,'' he said. ``We have to tell everybody what it is, and when they know, they buy.'' |
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