{"id":61140,"date":"2014-12-16T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61140"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:35:44","slug":"nd-lottery-ticket-sales-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61140","title":{"rendered":"ND lottery ticket sales down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/powerballlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8017\" alt=\"powerballlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/powerballlogo.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s lottery director says player fatigue and smaller jackpots led to a $903,000 decrease in ticket sales during the last fiscal year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director Randy Miller says an unaudited financial report released Tuesday shows North Dakota gamblers wagered $26.9 million on lottery games for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That&#8217;s down from $27.8 million in fiscal 2013.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miller says lottery ticket sales set a record in 2013 because of bigger jackpots. He says there is a direct impact to ticket sales depending on the size of jackpots.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Turtle Lake man has claimed a Wild Card 2 jackpot worth nearly $328,000.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota lottery officials say John Morris bought the winning ticket at a Minot convenience store. It won the jackpot in Saturday&#8217;s drawing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The odds of winning the Wild Card 2 jackpot are 1 in about 1.9 million. Morris says he plays the lottery regularly and has never won a prize bigger than $100.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot starts over at $200,000 for the next drawing, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s lottery director says player fatigue and smaller jackpots led to a $903,000 decrease in ticket sales during the last fiscal year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director Randy Miller says an unaudited financial report released Tuesday shows North Dakota gamblers wagered $26.9 million on lottery games for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61142,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140\/revisions\/61142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}