Rhode Island Daily Lottery
January 6, 2009
CRANSTON, R.I.—The winning numbers in the Rhode Island daily lottery drawing for Tuesday were:
1-3-9-2
(one, three, nine, two)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Lottery Numbers
Lottery Numbers
Jan. 6, 2009
Midday New York Numbers — 339; Lucky Sum — 15
Midday New York Win 4 — 7039; Lucky Sum — 19
New York Numbers — 080; Lucky Sum — 8
New York Win 4 — 2767; Lucky Sum — 22
New York Take 5 — 4, 7, 18, 19, 33
New York Pick 10 — 3, 4, 10, 19, 20, 24, 28, 30, 42, 44, 46, 49, 52, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74
Midday New Jersey Pick 3 — 343
Midday New Jersey Pick 4 — 7508
New Jersey Pick 3 — 962
New Jersey Pick 4 — 2036
New Jersey Cash 5 — 15, 19, 30, 38, 39
Mega Millions — 3, 11, 12, 19, 33; mega ball, 30
Connecticut Midday 3 — 413
Connecticut Midday 4 — 2514
Connecticut Daily — 194
Connecticut Play 4 — 3530
Connecticut Cash 5 — 4, 9, 12, 30, 34
Connecticut Classic Lotto — 2, 4, 12, 18, 22, 34
Jan. 5, 2009
New York Take 5 — 5, 10, 26, 35, 39
Connecticut Daily — 854
Connecticut Play 4 — 1540
Connecticut Cash 5 — 6, 8, 9, 22, 26
Jan. 6, 2009
Midday New York Numbers — 339; Lucky Sum — 15
Midday New York Win 4 — 7039; Lucky Sum — 19
New York Numbers — 080; Lucky Sum — 8
New York Win 4 — 2767; Lucky Sum — 22
New York Take 5 — 4, 7, 18, 19, 33
New York Pick 10 — 3, 4, 10, 19, 20, 24, 28, 30, 42, 44, 46, 49, 52, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74
Midday New Jersey Pick 3 — 343
Midday New Jersey Pick 4 — 7508
New Jersey Pick 3 — 962
New Jersey Pick 4 — 2036
New Jersey Cash 5 — 15, 19, 30, 38, 39
Mega Millions — 3, 11, 12, 19, 33; mega ball, 30
Connecticut Midday 3 — 413
Connecticut Midday 4 — 2514
Connecticut Daily — 194
Connecticut Play 4 — 3530
Connecticut Cash 5 — 4, 9, 12, 30, 34
Connecticut Classic Lotto — 2, 4, 12, 18, 22, 34
Jan. 5, 2009
New York Take 5 — 5, 10, 26, 35, 39
Connecticut Daily — 854
Connecticut Play 4 — 1540
Connecticut Cash 5 — 6, 8, 9, 22, 26
Lotto win father breaks his toy shop promise
Lotto win father breaks his toy shop promise
A father who promised his son a toy shop if he won the lottery backtracked after taking securing a £1 million jackpot – and bought him a £300 Lego Star Wars set instead.
By Matthew Moore
6 Jan 2009
Lotto win father Mark Myatt breaks his toy shop promise
They couple have already paid off their mortgage, credit cards and loans, and said that the windfall came just as family finances were becoming tight Photo: PA
Mark Myatt and his wife Trina, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire treated themselves to a Mercedes to celebrate their win, but they were less lavish with gifts for their two children.
Mr Myatt, 39, a builder, said that his eight-year-old son Alexander, from a previous relationship, tried to hold his father to the forgotten promise but had to be satisfied with a shopping trip to Toys 'R Us.
"The first thing he said was 'Can we have a toy shop now?"' Mr Myatt said."I did have to do a bit of backtracking this weekend although he has still done very well. He now has the Lego Star Wars Death Star set worth £300."
The couple's younger son Oliver, three, picked out a Thomas the Tank Engine train set as his present. "You can't move for toys in our house at the moment," said Mr Myatt.
The couple won £1,014,308, a third share of the New Year's Eve Lotto jackpot, but were unaware of their fortune because they were playing the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? computer game on the night of the draw.
When they heard the results at a family get-together the next day Mrs Myatt, 38, had to rush home to check their numbers after forgetting the last one she had picked.
She chose the numbers several years ago and could not remember if the sixth number – her age at the time – had been 32 or 33.
"When I saw we had all six numbers I was just gobsmacked," she said. The first person she told was an assistant in the shop where she stopped to buy a bottle of champagne on the way back to the party, she said.
They couple have already paid off their mortgage, credit cards and loans, and said that the windfall came just as family finances were becoming tight.
"We're like everybody else – petrol has gone up, shopping has gone through the roof. Everybody has got bills. Everybody has got debts," Mr Myatt said.
"Now we can sit back and think about things and think about what we are going to do. It will be nice just to take a breather and enjoy living there rather than stripping walls and rewiring sockets."
Mr Myatt had been due to start a new job in sales on Monday, but has asked for more time to consider the future. The family have no plans to move from their five-bedroom detached house.
Despite their new fortune, the Wyatts have not forgotten the value of a good deal. They opted for a four-month-old Mercedes rather than splashing out on a new car, and even managed to convince the dealer to drop the asking price.
"We get it tomorrow and I think the bloke in the dealership will strangle me," he said.
More than 2,200 millionaires or multimillionaires have been created since the National Lottery launched in 1994. The biggest ever UK winner was Angela Kelly from Glasgow who won £35.4m on the EuroMillions draw in August 2007.
Shocked Hawke's Bay family claims $5.2 Lotto prize
Shocked Hawke's Bay family claims $5.2 Lotto prize
Wednesday Jan 07, 2009
A Hawke's Bay family has claimed the $5.2 million Powerball prize from the December 27 draw.
The family, who wish to remain anonymous, claimed their prize in Wellington today, after their ticket, bought from Waipukurau Paper Plus, scooped the jackpot.
"We're just overwhelmed, it's quite unbelievable," one of the family members told NZ Lotteries staff today, while sipping on champagne to celebrate their good fortune.
"We'll just stick it in the bank for a while now and then maybe help out family, but there are no plans for any big splash-outs."
A Christchurch couple have claimed a $237,964 Lotto first division prize and said it means trying for a second child earlier than planned.
"We were going to get back on our feet after the first one, but now we are, there're no excuses not to try for baby number two now," said the man, who discovered he won when he checked his numbers online, but his partner took a bit longer to realise.
"I called out to her that she should come and see this, but she said she was having a shower, so I had to really stress that she should see this.
"Only a woman can ventilate, scream and cry at the same time like she did when she saw the numbers were ours," he said.
- NZPA
Wednesday Jan 07, 2009
A Hawke's Bay family has claimed the $5.2 million Powerball prize from the December 27 draw.
The family, who wish to remain anonymous, claimed their prize in Wellington today, after their ticket, bought from Waipukurau Paper Plus, scooped the jackpot.
"We're just overwhelmed, it's quite unbelievable," one of the family members told NZ Lotteries staff today, while sipping on champagne to celebrate their good fortune.
"We'll just stick it in the bank for a while now and then maybe help out family, but there are no plans for any big splash-outs."
A Christchurch couple have claimed a $237,964 Lotto first division prize and said it means trying for a second child earlier than planned.
"We were going to get back on our feet after the first one, but now we are, there're no excuses not to try for baby number two now," said the man, who discovered he won when he checked his numbers online, but his partner took a bit longer to realise.
"I called out to her that she should come and see this, but she said she was having a shower, so I had to really stress that she should see this.
"Only a woman can ventilate, scream and cry at the same time like she did when she saw the numbers were ours," he said.
- NZPA
Ont. lottery corporation apologizes after misprinted tickets raise false hope
Ont. lottery corporation apologizes after misprinted tickets raise false hope
Tue Jan 6
By Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - As many as 1,100 misprinted scratch-and-win lottery tickets were in circulation in Ontario before being recalled, the province's lottery corporation admitted Tuesday as at least one man lamented that his dream of collecting a $135,000 windfall won't likely be realized.
A small percentage of the three million $3 Fruit Smash lottery tickets recently printed had some misaligned or mismatched symbols underneath the latex surface that game players scratch away, said Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., spokesman Don Pister.
The error was only caught after lottery players called the lottery corporation, he said, and the misprinted tickets were pulled from stores the same day.
Twenty-seven-year-old Thomas Noftall of Brampton, Ont., was beside himself after it appeared he won the top $75,000 jackpot and a combined $60,000 from three other Fruit Smash tickets.
Noftall claims he was initially told by a lottery employee that he would be paid even though it appeared his win wasn't legitimate.
"I was freaked, I started yelling to my wife, 'We really did win, we really did win,"' he told Toronto radio station AM640.
Noftall, who acknowledged he assumed the lottery corporation had legalese in its fine print to protect against misprints, said he's since been told he probably won't get anything at all.
The OLG does have a clause that says it will void tickets for a variety of reasons, including if they are misprinted or produced in error.
Pister said he doesn't know how many players may believe they won on misprinted tickets and how or why the tickets appeared to look like a winner.
"I haven't seen the tickets. I don't know how various individuals may be interpreting what they're seeing," he said. "The only response we can give is we apologize if they're having any confusion whatsoever."
It was also not clear how many of the 1,100 misprinted tickets might appear to be winning tickets.
Scratching the entire latex surface on a misprinted ticket should reveal it's not a true winner and it would not scan as a winner at a lottery retailer, Pister added.
But he said each complaint would be treated individually.
"You can just present it to us, we'll check and if you're due a prize we'll pay it, of course," he said.
The entire line of Fruit Smash tickets were not pulled from stores because the proper number of legitimate winning tickets were distributed, Pister said.
There were three prizes each of $75,000, $25,000 and $10,000 up for grabs.
The odds of winning any of those top prizes are one in a million, while the odds of winning any of the 848,369 lesser prizes with Fruit Smash tickets is one in 3.54, according to the OLG.
Pister said the misprint error is "extremely rare" and there are extensive quality control and assurance procedures at various stages of the ticket printing process.
"Obviously you can't scratch and play every single one of the three million tickets but there are various checks done by us as well as by the ticket printer."
Tue Jan 6
By Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - As many as 1,100 misprinted scratch-and-win lottery tickets were in circulation in Ontario before being recalled, the province's lottery corporation admitted Tuesday as at least one man lamented that his dream of collecting a $135,000 windfall won't likely be realized.
A small percentage of the three million $3 Fruit Smash lottery tickets recently printed had some misaligned or mismatched symbols underneath the latex surface that game players scratch away, said Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., spokesman Don Pister.
The error was only caught after lottery players called the lottery corporation, he said, and the misprinted tickets were pulled from stores the same day.
Twenty-seven-year-old Thomas Noftall of Brampton, Ont., was beside himself after it appeared he won the top $75,000 jackpot and a combined $60,000 from three other Fruit Smash tickets.
Noftall claims he was initially told by a lottery employee that he would be paid even though it appeared his win wasn't legitimate.
"I was freaked, I started yelling to my wife, 'We really did win, we really did win,"' he told Toronto radio station AM640.
Noftall, who acknowledged he assumed the lottery corporation had legalese in its fine print to protect against misprints, said he's since been told he probably won't get anything at all.
The OLG does have a clause that says it will void tickets for a variety of reasons, including if they are misprinted or produced in error.
Pister said he doesn't know how many players may believe they won on misprinted tickets and how or why the tickets appeared to look like a winner.
"I haven't seen the tickets. I don't know how various individuals may be interpreting what they're seeing," he said. "The only response we can give is we apologize if they're having any confusion whatsoever."
It was also not clear how many of the 1,100 misprinted tickets might appear to be winning tickets.
Scratching the entire latex surface on a misprinted ticket should reveal it's not a true winner and it would not scan as a winner at a lottery retailer, Pister added.
But he said each complaint would be treated individually.
"You can just present it to us, we'll check and if you're due a prize we'll pay it, of course," he said.
The entire line of Fruit Smash tickets were not pulled from stores because the proper number of legitimate winning tickets were distributed, Pister said.
There were three prizes each of $75,000, $25,000 and $10,000 up for grabs.
The odds of winning any of those top prizes are one in a million, while the odds of winning any of the 848,369 lesser prizes with Fruit Smash tickets is one in 3.54, according to the OLG.
Pister said the misprint error is "extremely rare" and there are extensive quality control and assurance procedures at various stages of the ticket printing process.
"Obviously you can't scratch and play every single one of the three million tickets but there are various checks done by us as well as by the ticket printer."
Horseheads-area residents, Thomas & Betts workers split Lotto jackpot
Horseheads-area residents, Thomas & Betts workers split Lotto jackpot
January 6, 2009
Ten people, including several co-workers from Thomas & Betts Corp. in Horseheads, were introduced today as winners of a $7 million New York Lotto jackpot whose numbers were drawn in December.
The New York State Lottery Commission held a ceremony at Arnot Mall to announce the winners, who will split the jackpot through 26 annual payments of $140,000 – providing each winner with $14,000 a year for the next 26 years.
The winners are:
Lois Hamilton, Horseheads
Deb Hamilton, Horseheads. (She is Lois Hamilton’s daughter.)
Bonnie Blake, Breesport
Candice Ferriter, Wellsburg
Martin Fitzgerald, Elmira
Mary Gunderman, Horseheads
George VanGorden, Addison
JoAnn Hanley, Elmira
John Slovak, Erin
Karen Tompson, Horseheads
The 10 workers play Lotto through subscription, meaning they pay in advance to play the game. Their winning numbers were chosen through the quick-pick option.
January 6, 2009
Ten people, including several co-workers from Thomas & Betts Corp. in Horseheads, were introduced today as winners of a $7 million New York Lotto jackpot whose numbers were drawn in December.
The New York State Lottery Commission held a ceremony at Arnot Mall to announce the winners, who will split the jackpot through 26 annual payments of $140,000 – providing each winner with $14,000 a year for the next 26 years.
The winners are:
Lois Hamilton, Horseheads
Deb Hamilton, Horseheads. (She is Lois Hamilton’s daughter.)
Bonnie Blake, Breesport
Candice Ferriter, Wellsburg
Martin Fitzgerald, Elmira
Mary Gunderman, Horseheads
George VanGorden, Addison
JoAnn Hanley, Elmira
John Slovak, Erin
Karen Tompson, Horseheads
The 10 workers play Lotto through subscription, meaning they pay in advance to play the game. Their winning numbers were chosen through the quick-pick option.
Government starts wait list for DTV converter box coupons
Government starts wait list for DTV converter box coupons
Most in Southwest Colorado ready for switch to digital TV
by Katie Burford
Herald Staff Writer
RadioShack
January 06, 2009
James LaPlant, a sales associate at Radio Shack in Durango, shows a digital converter. The boxes are available at several area stores.
Radio Shack has seen a drop in demand for the converter boxes needed to translate the digital signals into analog for older televisions.
James LaPlant, a sales associate in the Main Avenue store, Monday said sales of the boxes have gone from a high of about 10 a day to two or three a day now.
"I'm well-stocked on them now," he said. "July, August, September, we were running out because people were getting their coupons early."
Other local stores offering the boxes include Rite Aid, Sears, Wal-Mart and Office Depot, according to www.dtv2009.gov, a government Web site with information on the switch.
The Durango area will be less affected by the switch than some areas because many of the stations here are broadcast by translators, which currently are not required to change to digital.
Translators often are employed in communities that are mountainous or too far away from a full-power station, according to the Web page for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Low-power stations also are exempt.
In the Durango area, this includes channels 25, 29, 39, 45 and 31, according to the Web site.
The government set aside $1.34 billion to help cover the cost of the boxes for people whose televisions aren't digital capable. Those who requested their coupons early are likely feeling fortunate after news surfaced Monday that the government has run out of money for the program.
Those requesting them now are put on a waiting list until more money becomes available.
Cable subscribers and residents with satellite television will not be affected. Nor will people who have digital televisions.
Some people are bypassing the boxes and buying new televisions or subscribing to cable or satellite television.
Ryan Means, a sales associate at Louisa's Movie House and Electronics, said many people buying new televisions, which are exclusively digital, cite the transition as a reason.
"We hear it a lot," he said.
Sean Hogue, regional vice president for Bresnan Communications, said cable sales are up.
He said it is hard to tell exactly how much of that could be attributed to the digital changeover.
"I do think we're maybe getting some lift" from the transition, he said.
Most in Southwest Colorado ready for switch to digital TV
by Katie Burford
Herald Staff Writer
RadioShack
January 06, 2009
James LaPlant, a sales associate at Radio Shack in Durango, shows a digital converter. The boxes are available at several area stores.
Radio Shack has seen a drop in demand for the converter boxes needed to translate the digital signals into analog for older televisions.
James LaPlant, a sales associate in the Main Avenue store, Monday said sales of the boxes have gone from a high of about 10 a day to two or three a day now.
"I'm well-stocked on them now," he said. "July, August, September, we were running out because people were getting their coupons early."
Other local stores offering the boxes include Rite Aid, Sears, Wal-Mart and Office Depot, according to www.dtv2009.gov, a government Web site with information on the switch.
The Durango area will be less affected by the switch than some areas because many of the stations here are broadcast by translators, which currently are not required to change to digital.
Translators often are employed in communities that are mountainous or too far away from a full-power station, according to the Web page for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Low-power stations also are exempt.
In the Durango area, this includes channels 25, 29, 39, 45 and 31, according to the Web site.
The government set aside $1.34 billion to help cover the cost of the boxes for people whose televisions aren't digital capable. Those who requested their coupons early are likely feeling fortunate after news surfaced Monday that the government has run out of money for the program.
Those requesting them now are put on a waiting list until more money becomes available.
Cable subscribers and residents with satellite television will not be affected. Nor will people who have digital televisions.
Some people are bypassing the boxes and buying new televisions or subscribing to cable or satellite television.
Ryan Means, a sales associate at Louisa's Movie House and Electronics, said many people buying new televisions, which are exclusively digital, cite the transition as a reason.
"We hear it a lot," he said.
Sean Hogue, regional vice president for Bresnan Communications, said cable sales are up.
He said it is hard to tell exactly how much of that could be attributed to the digital changeover.
"I do think we're maybe getting some lift" from the transition, he said.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)