Sunday, December 9, 2012

Will You Buy Holiday Lottery Tickets?

Call it the gift that keeps giving – at least for the lucky winners.
Florida Lottery officials are offering a series of holiday scratch-off tickets with names like "Gingerbread Dough" and encouraging folks to buy them as stocking stuffers. That's right – lottery tickets as Christmas gifts!
Florida Lottery ticket sales already are at an all-time high. Last week's mega Powerball jackpot of more than $500 million brought thousands of new players to the lottery, officials say. One-day sales of tickets in Florida on Wednesday, Nov. 28, the day of the drawing, topped $49 million.
“In our nearly 25 years of operations, the Florida Lottery has never seen a week like we saw last week,” said Florida Lottery Secretary Cynthia O’Connell.
With the popularity in playing the lottery, state officials are encouraging folks to buy

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