15 lottery to bulk purchasers said representatives of the investment group had visited them in the fall to discuss the logistics of a large lottery purchase. 15 lottery.Įxecutives of two retail chains that sold tickets in the Feb. As a reason for the recommendation, officials cited the example of a store that put an out-of-order sign on its lottery terminal as an employee printed hundreds of tickets for the investors in the Feb. Douglas Wilder that sales agents be required to take orders from people in line before filling orders from absentee buyers. Hans Smetona, a 22-year-old pizza deliveryman here, said, "No one wants to be in line behind anyone who's there for three or four days."Īfter the hearing, the lottery board adopted a recommendation to Gov. The governing board of the Virginia lottery held a public hearing today and received some criticism. Virginia officials are worried enough about a repeat performance that they met today to debate a proposal that would block bulk sales of lottery tickets. The winner has six months to claim the prize. An Australian regulatory official also said a syndicate there had notified its investors that it had won an overseas jackpot. If that is so, the numbers 8, 11, 13, 15, 19 and 20 will yield a prize of $1.3 million a year for 20 years to the group.īanking officials here say the money for the bulk purchase of Feb. 15 lottery, several clues point to the investment group, an Australian syndicate, as the winner. While no one has come forward with the one winning ticket in the Feb.
Only a lack of time prevented the group from buying tickets for the remaining 2 million combinations. State lottery officials say that the group bought tickets for 5 million of a possible 7 million combinations, at $1 each, in a lottery with a $27 million jackpot.
In Virginia this month, one investment group came tantalizingly close to cornering the market on all possible combinations of six numbers from 1 to 44. There is a dream common among regular lottery players: to wait until the jackpot reaches an astronomical sum and then to buy every possible number, guaranteeing a winner.
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