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Ohio Lottery Jackpot Rises to $70 Million12 April 2002CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As reported by the (Canton, Ohio) Repository: "The biggest prize ever offered in an Ohio Lottery game, $56 million, is getting even bigger. "No tickets had the right combination of six numbers Wednesday night, meaning Saturday night's Super Lotto Plus drawing will be $70 million, lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen said. The numbers were: 3-6-14-28-40-41, and the Bonus Ball was 29. " `I'm so excited right now, I'm going to sit down with the phone book and call everybody I know[" she said. "…Before the 7:30 p.m. drawing, the Ohio Lottery was selling Super Lotto Plus tickets at a rate about $23,000 per minute, said lottery spokesman Mike Bycko. "Sales just on Wednesday were projected to reach $8 million, bringing the lottery's estimate of sales for the drawing Wednesday night to $13.2 million, Cohen said. "…Saturday's $70 million jackpot is the result of 13 consecutive drawings without a winner. Cohen said strong sales supported the $14 million jump for the game that has two drawings a week…" |