Connecticut Lottery
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The Connecticut Lottery Corporation, also called the CT Lottery, is the official lottery in Connecticut. It was created in 1971 by then-Gov. Thomas Meskill, who signed Public Act No. 865. The first tickets were sold on February 15, 1972.[1] The Connecticut Lottery offers five regular in-house drawing games (not including the recurring game Super Draw.) Connecticut also participates in Mega Millions and Powerball, each with 44 jurisdictions.
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[edit] Regularly-drawn Connecticut-only games
The Connecticut Lottery, in April 2011, began its Replay option; players can use "old" tickets, in lieu of betting cards, to repeat number selections played in the appropriate game(s).[2] Drawings are broadcast on WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV.[2] Replay is not available for the recurring game Super Draw.
[edit] Play3
A three-digit numbers game-style game drawn twice daily, with day and night drawings. Tickets can be bought in 50-cent multiples. Bets include straight (all three digits in order), box (all three digits in any order) and pairs.[2]
[edit] Play4
A four-digit numbers game similar to Play3.[3]
[edit] Cash5
Cash5 is a nightly five-number game. The winning numbers are chosen from a field of 35. The basic Cash5 game costs $1; for an additional 50 cents, the Kicker option is activated. The Kicker option gives a player more opportunities to win.[4]
[edit] Classic Lotto
Connecticut's in-house jackpot game, Classic Lotto, is drawn Tuesdays and Friday nights. Six numbers are drawn from a field of 44.
The minimum jackpot is $1,000,000 (payable in 21 equal yearly installments unless the cash option is chosen). After two consecutive drawings without a top-prize winner, the jackpot increases by at least $100,000 per drawing until won. [5]
[edit] (Million Dollar) Super Draw
In 2010, after many US lotteries offered successful raffle-style games; the Connecticut Lottery introduced Super Draw, which had drawings on January 1 and July 4, 2011; and January 1, 2012. Each drawing produced 1,311 winning six-digit numbers, with prizes of $100, $1,000, $20,000, and one top prize of $1,000,000 (all prizes paid in lump sum.)
The most recent Super Draw began sales in October 2011; it sold out two days before the December 31, 2011 deadline. Its top prize was sold in Ashford.[2]
A fourth Super Draw is to commence sales on April 1, 2012 for the drawing to be held on July 4.
[edit] Multi-jurisdictional drawing games
[edit] Mega Millions
Connecticut began selling Mega Millions tickets January 31, 2010, following a 2009 agreement in which lotteries then offering either Mega Millions or Powerball were allowed to offer both games. Connecticut is among 44 lotteries selling Mega Millions tickets.[6] Mega Millions plays are $1 each, or $2 with the Megaplier option.
[edit] Powerball
Connecticut has been a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) since 1995.[6] MUSL is the operator of Powerball, which is offered by 44 lotteries.[7] A jackpot of $254.2 million was won in the November 2, 2011 drawing by one ticket, sold in Fairfield County. Three men claimed the ticket; it was the largest prize in Connecticut Lottery history.[8]
On January 15, 2012, Powerball became a $2-per-play game; $3 with Power Play. (Mega Millions remains a $1 game; $2 with Megaplier.)
[edit] Lucky for Life
In 2009, Connecticut began a draw game, Lucky4Life. In this version, the top prize was $2000-a-day-for-life. Sales ended March 8, 2012; the game was replaced three days later with a New England-wide version, Lucky for Life. The new game draws six numbers in the style of Mega Millions and Powerball. Top prize will be $1000-per-day; unlike Mega Millions, Powerball, or the Connecticut-only Classic Lotto, winners will not be allowed to choose cash.
[edit] Scratch games
The Connecticut Lottery offers numerous scratchcard games with price points of $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $20, and $30, with differing themes and prize levels. Except for its "lifetime" scratch games, all top prizes in Connecticut Lottery scratch games are either lump sum, or annuitized with a cash option.[9]
[edit] 1998 shootings
On March 6, 1998, there was a fatal shooting at the then-Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Newington. (The Connecticut Lottery headquarters currently is in Rocky Hill.) A Lottery employee, Matt Beck, killed four of his supervisors, then himself.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ctlottery.org/Content/lottery_history.aspx
- ^ a b c Lottery Play 3 page Accessed September 4, 2011.
- ^ CT Lottery Play 4 page Accessed September 4, 2011.
- ^ CT Lottery Cash 5 page Retrieved September 4, 2011
- ^ CT Lottery's Classic Lotto page Retrieved September 4, 2011
- ^ a b Powerball history Retrieved September 4, 2011
- ^ Powerball homepage Retrieved September 4, 2011
- ^ [1] $245 million Powerball ticket sold in Conn. MSNBC. Accessed 3 November 2011
- ^ CT Lottery scratchcard page Retrieved September 4, 2011
- ^ Lottery gunman's parents: 'We love you Matt -- but why?'
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