‘Instant’ Prizes Reach $100,000
Lottery officials today unveiled a new scratch-off ticket game with “instant” prizes of $100,000 for the first time and signed a contract for numbers games this summer that could boast jackpots of $100 million.
Game No. 5, “The Grand Game,” will officially begin Friday, but sales have already begun in stores that sold out of Game No. 4 tickets. Director Mark Michalko also said during a Capitol news conference that Californians are spending about $8 million daily on the current game, which nearly matches the heavy sales pace during the first week of the lottery last October.
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