Pennsylvania Lottery Holds Drawing at Farm Show

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Amidst square dancers and hundreds of onlookers, the Pennsylvania Lottery tonight held its live, 7 p.m. drawing at the 90th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show.

The Lottery drawing took place tonight in the large arena of the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. This was the third year in a row that Lottery conducted its live televised drawing at the Farm Show.

Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agriculture Dennis C. Wolff served as guest drawing official to randomly select the winning numbers for The Daily Number, BIG 4, CASH 5 and Lucky for Life Lotto games.

Monday night's drawing was the 9,896th live televised drawing conducted by the Pennsylvania Lottery. Lottery's nighttime drawings have awarded more than $20.5 billion in prizes to players since the first Daily Number drawing in March 1977.

Three Lottery drawing officials, a certified public accountant, an accountant, two senior witnesses, a camera crew and a television announcer all participate in each evening's drawing. Each official evening draw is preceded by 12 test draws, and followed by three post-draws, conducted to certify the performance of the drawing equipment and the randomness of the official winning numbers.