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A new scratch ticket is bound to send Boston Celtics fans into a frenzy. The Massachusetts State Lottery is paying tribute to the team's title run last season with the launch of the Celtics Banner ...
The Massachusetts Lottery was established on September 27, 1971, ... The Lottery offers scratch tickets with price points of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $30 and $50. Top ...
WESTPORT — Easter weekend was life-changing for one Massachusetts State Lottery player. Buying a“$4,000,000 Bonus Bucks” scratch ticket turned $10 into a seven-figure fortune for the lucky ...
A Fall River woman has won an all-expenses-paid trip to shark-infested waters after playing the 'Jaws' scratch ticket. Check out the prizes she wins. Fall River woman wins 'Jaws'-themed vacation ...
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. [8] This was followed, decades later, by the New Hampshire Lottery in 1964. Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s and have become a major source of lottery revenue.
According to CJR’s analysis, nearly 1,700 Americans have claimed winning tickets of $600 or more at least 50 times in the last seven years, including the country’s most frequent winner, a 79-year-old man from Massachusetts named Clarance W. Jones, who has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets for prizes exceeding $18 million.
"The Massachusetts State Lottery was the first lottery in the world to introduce a scratch ticket,” Teja said. “It was 50 years ago, in May.”
Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s, becoming a major source of US lottery revenue. Some jurisdictions have introduced keno and/or video lottery terminals (slot machines in all but name).