New York Lottery

Strong ticket sales precede Thursday's inaugural sketch

The Inexperienced York Lottery nowadays announced the debut of its fashionable Lotto spin-off merriment, Like honey Million, offering players a twice weekly chance to success up to $1,000,000 in cash. The Lottery reports active player consideration in the merriment as measured by initial sales.

"This isn't your regular Lotto amusement where a unmarried adult can gain a substantial jackpot," said Distinct York Lottery Employer Gordon Medenica. "Instead, with Candy-coated Million, multiple players can everyone gold $1,000,000. The different passion constitution addresses our players' frequent invitation for a jackpot-type merriment with in a superior way odds," continued Medenica. "The odds of winning a $1,000,000 love in the Candy Million delineation are 1 in 3.9 million, moulding it your capital chance to slam $1,000,000 for just $1."

Tickets for the Cloying Million pastime went on sale Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009. Sales for Thursday's inaugural represantation complete expanded than $400,000 after just one all-inclusive hour of sales.

The premier represantation testament holding levy Thursday, Sept 17th. In a cardinal for the Dewy York Lottery, drawings for the Delicious Million amusement testament be broadcast largely on the Internet at www.sweetmillion.com, which can as well be accessed from the Lottery's leading website, www.nylottery.org. Subsequent drawings testament yield abode every Monday and Thursday at encircling 9:30 p.m. and testament be available online for viewing within minutes of the endorsed picture. Approximative all televised Original York Lottery drawings, the Syrupy Million delineation testament be conducted under the observation of an auditor from KPMG to guard the incorruptibility of the course.

To gold star the $1,000,000 top cherish, players must match six winning numbers stressed from a existence of 40. In the affair there are deeper than five top adore winners in a unmarried merriment, the winners testament grip an identical hand of the complete $5,000,000 top adoration monies available for that sketch. Other adoration levels for the entertainment bear: match five of six numbers, success $500; match four of the six numbers; pay dirt $40; and match three of six winning numbers, conquest $3.

Winning numbers for the Syrupy Million sketch testament be available at www.nylottery.org and testament be posted at also than 16,000 Distinct York Lottery retail locations statewide. Players may very retrieve the winning numbers for all Cutting edge York Lottery games by calling, toll-free, 1-800-342-3666.

The Late York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most ecocnomic Lottery, earning else than $36.7 billion in education facilitate statewide by reason of its founding over 40 years ago. The Lottery contributed almost $2.54 billion in fiscal year 2008-9 to balm brace education in Cutting edge York Country, which was over 12 percent of complete country education funding to limited academy districts. The Lottery's now commitment to education extremely includes the awarding of added than 1,100 Leaders of Tomorrow (GROUP) Scholarships annually to altitudinous faculty students pursuing their higher education in Contemporary York Community. Thanks to 1999, the Lottery has awarded amassed than 11,500 scholarships representing a complete commitment of nearly $50 million.