Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Bring on the MegaMillions
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Can't win if you don't play.
The North Carolina lottery commission voted unanimously Monday afternoon to add MegaMillions to its lineup, giving the state a second multi-state game with eye-popping jackpots.MegaMillions tickets could start selling as early as Jan. 31. North Carolina has sold Powerball tickets since 2006, the year the state lottery began, with two drawings a week on Wednesday and Saturday.
The addition of MegaMillions will give players two more drawings a week, Tuesday and Friday, in which the jackpot can balloon to $200 million or more. Lottery officials are betting that the additional game will boost revenue in a market that is constantly looking for new options to offer players. Neighboring states Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia have already voted to sell two games, and South Carolina is scheduled to vote next Tuesday.
Read the rest of this News and Observer article here.
Can you school the lottery? Dunno. But these folks seem to think so:
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Lotteries are for people who are bad at math. The state knows that. That is why it is against the law for YOU to run a lottery.
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