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California Lottery officials on Saturday announced that a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket worth $82 million was sold in Victorville.
In 1996, as a result of a lawsuit by a pachinko parlor and an association of owners and trainers of race horses, [14] the Supreme Court of California unanimously struck down the lottery's implementation of keno, ruling that it was a house-banked game, not a lottery game, which at that time was illegal anywhere in California. [15]
€38.4 million (US$49.7 million) was the largest jackpot in the Netherlands draw of the Staatsloterij (State Lottery) in May 2013. €30,009,676 (US$31 million) was the largest jackpot in France 's SuperLoto, won in May 2006 by two tickets.
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
After no ticket was sold for Tuesday's jackpot, the top prize has been pushed to $1.28 billion for Friday's drawing, making it the second-largest jackpot in the game's history.
Carolyn Becker, Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Communications for CA Lottery, previously told Parade. Becker went on to add in California alone $1 billion in lottery winnings remains unclaimed.
Depending on the game, a minimum of either two or three numbers(not counting a "bonus ball") must be matched for a winning ticket(A 2/5 match usually results in a free play for that game, or a "break-even" win; for the latter, the player wins back their stake on that particular five-number wager.).
A US Army vet and retired police detective who said that the California lottery was taking too long to pay out his jaw-dropping $44.3 million jackpot has finally claimed his winnings after months ...