Retired steel worker Peter Gilbert of East Chicago, Indiana chose the cash option of $40.4 million rather than the 30 annual payments. The drawing on Novemhad a jackpot of $54.5 million, its largest jackpot ever. Lotto Cash, the first online game, began in April 1990. The first scratch-off game, Hoosier Millionaire, went on sale in October. Indiana legislators authorized the state lottery, along with parimutuel betting on horse racing, in May 1989. In 1988, state voters approved by 62 percent a constitutional amendment lifting the ban.
Mississippi, but Vincennes was able to run its lottery as a policy game, contracted out to a group of experienced lottery operators from Kentucky, for over a year before it was ruled unlawful in 1883.
Supreme Court soon rejected a similar argument in Stone v. Vincennes University moved to revive its lottery in 1879, arguing successfully in a test case before the Indiana Supreme Court that, under the Contracts Clause, the lottery provision of the 1807 charter could not be revoked, even by a constitutional ban. The Indiana constitutional convention of 1851 adopted, with little debate, a clause that "no lottery shall be authorized nor shall the sale of lottery tickets be allowed". The 1840s and 1850s saw a general movement against lotteries in the United States, partly on moral grounds, and partly due to a backlash against legislative corruption. Another was authorized in 1818 for the Jeffersonville Ohio Canal Company to raise $100,000, but it only brought in $2,536. Another lottery was authorized in 1810 to raise $1,000 to buy books for a library in Vincennes, but it was unsuccessful. The lottery was a failure after a year, those few tickets that had been sold were recalled. The government of the Indiana Territory in 1807 chartered Vincennes University, authorizing it to raise up to $20,000 in a lottery, to provide for a library and other facilities. ^ 'Hoosier Lottery'.In early American history, legislators commonly established lotteries to fund schools, roads, and other public works.^ 'Lottery fever dies, but goal reachable'.Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. ^ 'Hoosier lottery is approved, along with pari-mutuel bets'.Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. ^ 'Lottery opponents say they will continue fight'.Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. ^ 'Voters lift state curb on lottery'.^ 'Notes from Indiana: How a lottery scheme was legalized'.^ 'Men and things in Indiana: A university starting a lottery'.Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes.
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^ a b c Howard, Timothy Edward (1907).A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Poker Lotto began selling tickets on August 25, 2013. Regardless of a win or loss on the instant game, the player's ticket is eligible for the nightly draw, where the player's cards must match at least 2 of the drawn cards in order to win. (Pair of Jacks or better, grand prize $5,000). All picks are computer generated 'quick picks', as the first half of the game is won by the player being 'dealt' a winning poker hand on their ticket. With a cost of $2 per play, Poker Lotto is a combination of both instant and draw games.
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