The Tennessee Education Lottery on Sunday will debut the first totally in-state game that allows players to win $1 million or more, said Kym Gerlock, a lottery spokeswoman.
Lotto Plus will have a jackpot of $1 million, and if no one wins the Tuesday drawing the jackpot will increase each week after that, Ms. Gerlock said today.
The game works like the multi-state Powerball but offers better chances of winning, Ms. Gerlock said. Players select any six numbers from one to 44 or allow the computer to randomly select the numbers. Tickets sell for $1 each. If three, four, five or six of those numbers are drawn in any order the player wins. If no one wins, the jackpot increases by $100,000 for the next week, she said.
If there’s more than one winner, the jackpot is split.
Lottery officials also renamed the Lotto 5 game and added a new prize level. Players of that game now can win by matching two of five numbers in addition to the current prizes for matching three, four and five numbers.
Tennessee directs its lottery earnings to specific education programs, including college scholarships, pre-kindergarten and after-school programs. Since its inception in January 2004, the lottery has directed $1 billion to those initiatives, records show.
For complete details, read tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned ...
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