GOOD NUMBERS HUNTING REVAMPED GAME SELLS MORE TICKETS.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer BURBANK - As the SuperLotto Plus jackpot hit $47 million for tonight's drawing, lottery officials said the new game helped drive all ticket sales to $2.5 billion last fiscal year, the most in a decade. Redesigned four months ago, the new game has raised jackpots from the SuperLotto base of $4 million to $7 million for the new game, lottery officials said. The $47 million prize tonight is the largest in two months. In a one-hour period Friday afternoon, Lottery officials sold $454,000 in tickets, officials said. If no one wins or claims this prize, it could roll over to over $60 million. ``I'm feeling lucky I'm Feeling Lucky is a term and function used by the Google search engine. When a user clicks on the button the user will be taken directly to the first search result, bypassing the search engine results page. ,'' said truck driver Larry Saunders Saun´ders n. 1. See Sandress. , 50, of Fontana as he bought 10 Quick Pick tickets from the Magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. Liquor liquor /li·quor/ (lik´er) (li´kwor) pl. liquors, liquo´res [L.] 1. a liquid, especially an aqueous solution containing a medicinal substance. 2. Market at Screenland Drive and Magnolia Avenue in Burbank. ``Even a lot of my friends now are starting to get more into it because there are more opportunities to win.'' A single jackpot winner could receive 26 annual payments with the first payment of about $1.175 million and the 26th payment of about $2.397 million. The estimated cash value would be about half of the jackpot, $23 million. ``The best news is that public schools will receive more than $26 million from the draw sales associated with this jackpot,'' said Dave Rosenberg Boxer Dave Rosenberg was born in New York on May 15 1901. He was managed by Joe Schwinger and won the National and New York State Amateur Championship titles in 1919 before turning professional in October of that year. He died aged 77 on February 01 1979 [1] , chairman of the Lottery Commission. In the 15-year-history of the state's lottery, $12 billion has gone to education. About 34 cents of every $1 ticket goes to education, as required by a 1984 voter-approved measure. The largest jackpot in California Lottery history was $118.8 million on April 17, 1991, when the lottery issued 10 winning tickets and paid out to 54 winners. On Aug. 16, Juanita Colla of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden won $88 million, the highest single payout pay·out n. 1. The act or an instance of paying out. 2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders. in Lottery history. At the Magnolia Liquor Market, one of about 19,000 retail businesses in the state offering the game, even owner Nizar Barakat, 43, was feeling lucky. He bought 10 tickets and expected to see Lotto fans funneling through his store Friday after work. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Burbank liquor store owner Nizar Barakat, 43, sells a Quick Pick Lotto ticket Friday. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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