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The top prize for an instant win is $5,000. The top prize for the nightly drawing is $100,000. At the nightly drawings, players also win by matching 4($500), 3($25) or 2($3) cards. Unlike Daily 3 & 4 (which draw numbered balls), Keno!, Lotto 47, Fantasy 5, with their Double Plays and Poker Lotto are drawn using a random number generator (RNG).
The word "keno" has French or Latin roots (Fr. quine "five winning numbers", L. quini "five each"), but by all accounts the game originated in China. Legend has it that Zhang Liang invented the game during the Chu-Han Contention to raise money to defend an ancient city, and its widespread popularity later helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.
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.
The group lost money in only three drawings. MICHIGAN $1.8M PLAYED $2.65M WINNINGS +$850,000 MASSACHUSETTS $17.3M PLAYED $24.2M WINNINGS +$6.9M GRAND TOTAL +$7.75M. They felt vindicated six months afterward, when the Massachusetts inspector general released his report on July 27, 2012. Twenty-five pages long, the report didn’t exactly absolve ...
In Michigan, in-store and online ticket sales are available until 9:45 p.m. on the night of the draw. ... Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m ...
Ohio added a twice-daily game on August 5, 2007, called Ten-OH!, which was a Keno-like game; the first Ohio Lottery game in which the drawings were computerized. [7] (As a result, the Ten-OH! drawings were not televised.) The top prize of $500,000 was won by matching 10 of the 20 numbers drawn. [citation needed]
If you prefer to watch the drawing in person, you can also visit the Mega Millions WSB-TV studio in Atlanta, Georgia where the live drawings are supervised by the Georgia Lottery.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!