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The New Hampshire Lottery was established in 1964, [a] making it the third-oldest lottery in the United States, [b] and the oldest in the contiguous United States.New Hampshire's lottery games include Lucky for Life, Mega Millions, Powerball, Tri-State Megabucks Plus, and numerous scratch tickets.
Initially known as the New Hampshire Sweepstakes, the state's lottery began operation in 1964 and is the oldest lottery conducted by a U.S. state. [3] [a] New Hampshire offers scratch tickets and participates in multi-state lotteries such as Mega Millions and Powerball. Online sales began in September 2018. [4]
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. [8] This was followed, decades later, by the New Hampshire Lottery in 1964. Instant lottery tickets, also known as scratch cards, were introduced in the 1970s and have become a major source of lottery revenue.
New Hampshire Lottery; New Jersey Lottery; New Mexico Lottery; New York Lottery; North Carolina Education Lottery; North Dakota Lottery; O. Ohio Lottery;
Tri-State Lottery is the terminal-generated game series offered by the Maine, New Hampshire, and/or Vermont lotteries. It was the first multi-jurisdictional lottery. Its first multi-state game (Tri-State Megabucks) came in September 1985. [1]
The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934, [42] followed by New Hampshire in 1964. In 2018, Ohio became one of the first states to offer people a digital lottery option.
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
The New Hampshire Lottery Commission filed suit in February 2019 seeking to vacate the OLC's new opinion, which the Commission claimed would reduce its annual profits by millions of dollars. [17] [18] New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said the state wasn't interested in negotiating an out-of-court settlement, "we're looking to win."