LotteryTickets: Florida Lottery Powerball

Thursday 13 December 2012

Florida Lottery Powerball

Florida Lottery Powerball Biography

From its inception, the Virginia Lottery has sold instant (scratcher) games. Originally, all scratch tickets were $1 each; in the mid-1990s, the first Bingo scratcher was introduced; each Bingo ticket cost $2. Eventually, higher-priced scratchers with larger prizes were introduced. Currently, the most expensive scratchers are $20 each. These almost always offer a top prize of at least $1 million (annuitized; "fixed" annuity scratcher prizes always offer a cash option.) The largest prize offered in a Virginia scratcher was $5 million (annuity.) Winners of scratcher annuity prizes of at least $1 million can choose cash (just as in the top prizes in Powerball, Mega Millions, or Decades of Dollars.)
In 2007, the Lottery began complementing scratchers with Fast Play games, including "Bingo" (later replaced by "Bonus Bingo") and "Find the 9's": each with its own set of rules and play instructions. Most Fast Play games cost $2 each ("Three Card Bingo" costs $3). As with traditional Lottery games, tickets are printed by the terminal; however as in scratchers, winning status is determined when the ticket is printed (there is no drawing for a Fast Play game).Virginia Lottery drawings are conducted under elaborate security protocols, in which each drawing supervised is by two Lottery employees and a representative of an independent accounting firm. The set of balls used for each drawing are randomly selected from a number of sets; and detailed records of "test" drawings are maintained to prevent systematic biases.[34] In addition, forging lottery tickets, or tampering with a Lottery drawing is a Class 5 felony.[35] All Virginia Lottery employees[36] and applicants to become Lottery sales agents[37] are fingerprinted and subject to criminal background checks.
Theft of Virginia Lottery tickets are investigated by both the Lottery and local law enforcement agencies

Florida Lottery Powerball