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- Sep. 04, 1989: Business Notes:Lotteries
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- LOTTERIES
- Wheel of Misfortune
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- <p> For players of Montana's Big Spin lottery game, lady luck
- went on vacation and never came back. In Big Spin, the state
- chooses three people each week from among thousands of losing
- lottery ticket holders and gives them a chance to win a $1
- million jackpot by whirling the Big Spin wheel. But in 222
- tries over the past 18 months, no one has hit the jackpot.
- Officials added a second $1 million slot to the 100-slot wheel,
- but to no avail. Without a big winner to hype, ticket sales have
- dropped from $23 million in fiscal 1988 to $11.2 million in
- 1989.
- </p>
- <p> Is the big wheel fixed? Evidently not: the jackpot has
- turned up several times in practice runs. Perhaps lottery
- officials should talk to Vanna White for a few tips.
- </p>
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