His office plans to meet with lottery officials next week.

Lottery officials said they did not know, however, how long it would take to get the entire system back on line.

But now, lottery officials said they are far ahead of the projection.

Lottery officials said they expected to sell a total of about 30 million tickets.

Lottery officials in all three states are looking at cross promotions with private companies.

Lottery officials hope to attract more players with this option.

After withholding, the check will be about $1,210,416, lottery officials said.

At 8:05, lottery officials announce on television the day's winning numbers.

A genuine lottery official would have said that anyone, American or foreign, could cash one in.

Each citizen would have to bring in $10,000 to show the lottery officials.