10 Facts About Pennsylvania Lottery

1.

Pennsylvania Lottery is the only US lottery that targets all of its proceeds to programs for its elderly residents.

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2.

The suite of products, known as the Pennsylvania iLottery, includes a variety of scratch-off games that reveal lottery ticket results online.

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3.

Pennsylvania Lottery has been offering Xpress Sports' Racing and Football since the summer of 2018.

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4.

Pennsylvania Lottery joined Powerball in 2002; it was MUSL's most-populous member until Florida joined in 2009.

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5.

The Pennsylvania lottery ended the game, due to poor sales caused by the lottery joining the multi state Powerball game, in June 2002.

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6.

The Pennsylvania Lottery cited the addition of Mega Millions to its portfolio early in the year; Super 7 was drawn on Tuesday and Friday nights, the same as Mega Millions.

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7.

Pennsylvania Lottery uses an animatronic groundhog called "Gus", who claims that he is the "second-most-famous groundhog in Pennsylvania", as the mascot for instant games in television commercials which appear around the beginning of every month.

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8.

Concurrent with the removal of validation codes, the Pennsylvania lottery removed "benday, " a random pattern of squiggly lines used as a security feature.

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9.

Pennsylvania Lottery authorities became suspicious after rumors began that the drawing was fixed.

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10.

All Pennsylvania Lottery drawings are supervised by Harrisburg-based Zelenkofske Axelrod.

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