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Legislation creating Iowa's lottery was signed into law in April 1985; the Lottery began sales on August 22, 1985, with a kickoff celebration at the Iowa State Fair. The first product sold by the Iowa Lottery was an instant-scratch game called Scratch, Match and Win; players bought more than 6.4 million tickets during its first week.
In Iowa, 24% of any jackpot prize is withheld for federal taxes and 5% is withheld for state taxes, according to the Iowa Lottery. Those amounts are automatically deducted before the prize is paid.
Des Moines resident Shelby Willis won $1,000 a day for life in the Iowa Lottery's Lucky for Life lottery game on Friday. Lucky for Life prize lands Des Moines man $5.75 million and an 'instant ...
Powerball, Mega Millions history: Top 10 U.S. lottery drawing jackpot results Here are the nation's all-time top 10 Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, according to powerball.com : $2.04 billion ...
Midwest Millions is an American scratchcard game that began on September 7, 2007, in Iowa and Kansas, administered by the Multi-State Lottery Association. [1] It originally became available in Kansas at the State Fair in Hutchinson and then throughout Kansas on September 13.
The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) is an American non-profit, government-benefit association owned and operated by agreement of its 34-member lotteries. MUSL was created to facilitate the operation of multi-jurisdictional lottery games, most notably Powerball. MUSL was formed in December 1987, by seven U.S. lotteries.
Lotteries in the United States did not always have sterling reputations. One early lottery in particular, the National Lottery, which was passed by Congress for the beautification of Washington, D.C., and was administered by the municipal government, was the subject of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision – Cohens v. Virginia. [7]
This week the Iowa Lottery made payouts to its lucky Powerball winners – along with some lucky losers ...