Kansas Lottery

If you played the Kansas Lottery recently, you way want to check your Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets.  Two $50,000 cash prizes remain unclaimed from the December 30, 2010 drawing.  The winning raffle numbers are: 11761 and 83959.  Both raffle tickets were sold in northeast Kansas. Players have 365 days from the date of the drawing to claim an online tickets.

The Kansas Lottery says parents should not buy lottery tickets as Christmas gifts for their children. Lottery tickets and scratch cards end up in some children's stockings.  Because of a growing concern about adolescent problem gambling, the Kansas Lottery along with several other organizations want to increase awareness about the impact of giving lottery tickets to minors. A recent study shows that 19% of high school students received lottery tickets or scratch cards as gifts.

More than a third of the tickets available in the Kansas Lottery's limited-time Holiday Millionaire Raffle have now been sold.  That leaves less than 100,000 tickets remaining in a game that offers players their best chance of winning $1 million. Only 150,000 Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets will be sold, giving players a 1 in 150,000 chance of winning the top prize of $1 million.  Five $50,000 prizes will also be awarded in this Kansas-only game, as well as five hundred $500 prizes.

The Kansas Lottery says you'll notice two new changes. Players will hear a new sound when a retail location validates a winning ticket. Players can also now watch the Kansas Hold'Em and Keno drawings on the same TV monitor at retail locations that have one.

Two casino developers will be considered by the Lottery Review Board for a contract in Sumner County. Wednesday the Kansas Lottery approved contracts with the Peninsula Gaming and Global Gaming. Those contract will now move on to the review board for final consideration. The one casino project missing is Harrah's. Harrah's pulled out of the process Wednesday, but will not exactly say why. Harrah's spokesman Gary Thompson says the developer withdrew its plan for a casino near the Mulvane exit of the Kansas Turnpike after discussions with the Kansas Lottery.

A hospital in Beloit cashes in, thanks to an unexpected surprise in the mailbox. Susan Concannon with the Beloit Hospital Foundation checks the mail every day. She says this normally mundane task was anything but one day in August. “It was a non-descript envelope and out falls a lotto ticket and a validation slip,” Concannon said, “It was a mystery.” After some checking, though, she discovered it was a winning lottery ticket with $10,000.

Sumner County casino developers will pitch their projects to the Kansas Lottery next month. The Lottery Commission will meet in Topeka on September 8. The developers will give the details of their projects in an effort finalize contracts with the state. A contract is needed in order for the Lottery Review Board to consider the project. The review board reviews each project and eventually decide which casino will be built. There are three proposals for Sumner County. Global Gaming wants to build a casino at the Wellington exit of the turnpike.

Kansas Lottery officials say ticket sales topped $235 million in the latest fiscal year, up 2.13 percent from the previous year. Figures for the fiscal year that ended June 30 were released Wednesday. The lottery reports that it transferred $69 million to the state general fund from the sales. Executive director Ed Van Petten said the numbers are close to the 2007 sales record of $240 million. The lottery also said casino activities generated about $29.5 million for the state general fund.

Updated - April 6 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas review board has reluctantly agreed to postpone a decision on whether to allow a state-owned casino south of Wichita to move forward. At the request of the developers, the Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board decided Tuesday to delay its vote on the Chisholm Creek project. John Frieden, an attorney for Chisholm Creek, said Tuesday that the company would walk away from its $225 million project if the decision wasn't delayed for 60 days.