Kentucky Lottery has record year
31 Jul 2007
"The brisk sale of tickets for interactive, scratch-off games offset a decline in tickets sold for online, or computerized, games, including Powerball, Pick 3 and Pick 4.
"Those sales suffered, in part, because there was only one large Powerball jackpot, which was hit at $254 million last January. Some tickets for the interactive games sell for up to $20 and return more than 70 percent of sales in prize money to players.
"It was the eighth time in the past nine years that total ticket sales have increased over the previous year.
"The newly released 2007 fiscal sales were up a fraction over the previous record of $742 million set a year ago, said lottery President and CEO Arch Gleason..."