The winning ticket was sold at the Loaf ‘N Jug at 102 N. Rubey Drive in Golden, Colorado Lottery officials said in a Thursday post on social media. Colorado was the only state with a $1 million winner from Wednesday night’s drawing.

The ticket just missed the Powerball but matched all five numbers: 13, 21, 17, 43 and 45.

An from a 200X scratch ticket in March, according to the state.

help fund parks, trails, open spaces and recreation projects statewide.

A bipartisan group of Colorado legislators on Friday filed a bill to block online lottery ticket sales even as the formulates its plan with the support of Gov. Jared Polis.

The online ticket sales are necessary to increase revenue for the lottery’s mission to fund outdoor recreation and wildlife, Colorado Lottery director Tom Seaver said.

​​”Governor Polis continues looking for opportunities to expand the lottery, which allows Coloradans to support great organizations like , which funds parks, trails, recreation, open space, wildlife projects and increases access to the outdoors,” Polis spokesman Eric Maruyama said in a statement. “The governor is supportive of increasing consumer convenience and internet freedom.”

The lottery also plans to reverse a longstanding policy that prohibits people from buying tickets with credit cards at retail outlets, such as convenience stores, as it rolls out the online ticket sales, Seaver said.

The bill, , would prohibit that change because Coloradans do not need to go into credit card debt while playing lottery games, said Sen. Jeff Bridges, D-Greenwood Village, who is one of the bill’s sponsors.

The legislators also believe their bill is necessary to prevent people from becoming addicted to gambling, a problem that has grown since Colorado legalized sports betting in 2020. Lottery tickets sold online in other states resemble web-based slot machines, Bridges said.

Online gambling involving traditional casino games such as slot machines, blackjack and roulette is often referred to as iGaming.

“If you look at what these online scratch ticket companies do, it is iGaming,” Bridges said. “The state not only should not be participating in that, but they shouldn’t be pushing it with more than $10 million in advertising. This is iGaming sponsored by the state to the benefit of the state at a time when Coloradans can’t afford to live here.”

However, the lottery needs to increase revenue to support Great Outdoors Colorado and other programs that protect and promote outdoor recreation, Seaver said. He also said that lottery players are asking for more convenient ways to play the games.

“We can’t sit still and meet our numbers,” Seaver said. “We have to keep growing in order to meet the needs of our recipients.”

Great Outdoors Colorado, a trust fund created in 1992, receives 50% of the lottery’s profits to fund outdoor preservation projects. The receives another 40% of lottery sales, and gets a 10% cut.

But the funding structure for Great Outdoors Colorado is the primary reason the lottery wants to boost sales, Seaver said.

The amount of money Great Outdoors Colorado receives is capped each year, based on a formula involving the Consumer Price Index, and the surplus money is doled out to various organizations, including the for school construction and the for youth programs.

In 2025, however, the cap was not met, and those other groups did not receive lottery funding.

The Colorado Lottery needs to increase revenue, and Seaver sees online sales as a way to get there.

“We have to keep growing in order to meet the needs of recipients,” he said.

The lottery wants to open its online ticket sales by selling the products already offered, including Lotto, Powerball and Mega Millions tickets, as well as various scratch-off games, Seaver said. The plans are still in the developmental phase, so it is unclear exactly how those products would be sold online and delivered to customers.

It is also too early to determine whether the lottery would offer digital scratch-ticket sales and what those games would look like.

“We are a long way from saying what kind of game we would bring,” Seaver said. “From my perspective, you start slow with what kind of games you are going to bring and then progress.”

Back-door path to legalized iGaming?

However, critics are warning that Colorado’s creation of online lottery ticket sales could create a back-door entry to online, casino-style gambling, and that addictive behavior will increase because people can play on their cellphones while charging their credit cards.

Those critics point toward the and its online games, such as Lucky Coins Disco Pig and Pantheon of Olympus Lightning. In those games, players enter a credit card and can play as many times as they want, punching buttons to line up icons such as Greek coins or disco balls to win money. The games feature cartoon drawings and music.

The supports the Colorado bill because the group opposes online casino games, said Oliver Barie, the organization’s government relations director.

The association, which is backed by traditional casinos, including Monarch Casino in Black Hawk, and the state’s casino towns, fears an online lottery will lead to state-sponsored digital casino games.

“We’ve seen other states, where oftentimes the first step is you have online lottery sales,” Barie said. “Depending on the iLottery platform, you could have a traditional ticket on your phone or games that look and feel a lot like a slot machine. That����ap where our concerns are.”

Barie conducted by the association that showed a majority of respondents in Colorado opposed a lottery expansion, purchases charged to credit cards and 18-year-olds playing lottery games online.

Internet casino games often involve bright colors, music and cartoon characters that create a “stimulus reward loop” that increases the risk of addiction, said Jamie Glick, president of the .

“Essentially, what that means is the quicker you can interact with a game and get a response back, the higher the likelihood of addiction,” Glick said. “Those games, just from an addiction standpoint, brain chemistry standpoint, they play like iGaming.”

Glick also said he is concerned that online lottery games could appeal to children because they resemble video games. Online games often ask players to scan driver’s licenses to verify their ages, but Glick said young people find ways to circumvent those rules.

“We certainly don’t think there should be any gambling that could attract younger users,” he said.

Finally, allowing credit card sales increases the risk of addiction because it makes it easier for people to keep playing, Glick said.

“One thing I’m not neutral on is gambling on credit, just because that’s one of the biggest risk factors in developing a gambling problem and also disrupting your life through gambling, when you’re gambling with money that you don’t have,” he said.

Seaver said that the lottery would create guardrails and limits for people playing online.

“We’re not the first to the dance on this, and that’s fine,” Seaver said. “We wanted to see how other states managed the product and responsible gambling over the past few years.”

The lottery will not introduce credit card sales until a comprehensive player health program is established, said Meghan Dougherty, a Colorado Lottery spokeswoman.

“At the same time, when this option is available, it will allow players to use the payment method of their choice,” she said.

Lottery tickets already available online

Colorado residents already can buy state lottery tickets online through third-party vendors, known in the industry as couriers.

Four companies offer online ticket sales in Colorado. Their operations are similar to how DoorDash and Instacart allow people to order food and groceries over their phones or computers, except people do not receive a physical ticket at their doorsteps.

The Colorado Lottery does not license or regulate couriers, Dougherty said. The couriers have agreements with brick-and-mortar stores, and those stores are subject to rules that allow them to partner with couriers.

On , one of the companies doing business in Colorado, players pay a convenience fee on their purchases. For example, Colorado residents on Friday could buy a $5 Orange Cash scratch ticket for $6.50 or a $2 Powerball ticket for $2.50.

Lotto.com owns a convenience store on Wadsworth Boulevard called Players Cafe, said Tom Metzger, the website’s chief executive officer.

There, people can buy lottery tickets or traditional convenience store items. The online sales are routed to that store, where employees scan tickets sold at the store and then send pictures to players to confirm their purchases and log their serial numbers.

If someone buys a scratch ticket, Lotto.com puts a “digital cover” over the numbers so the player can simulate scratching off the latex of a paper ticket with their fingers.

Prize money is deposited into an online wallet, and anyone who wins $600 or more still has to pick up the paper ticket to cash their winnings.

Lotto.com targets people who do not ordinarily play the lottery at convenience stores, Metzger said. The company advertises online and tries to lure people who Metzger describes as “incremental players.” The average transaction is $10, he said.

The couriers do not sell products that are not already offered by the Colorado Lottery.

After the bill was filed Friday, courier companies began scrambling to figure out how it might impact their business models. Bridges said he did not intend to put them out of business and believes they are protected. But others weren’t so clear on the bill’s language.

Metzger said his business would not suffer if the Colorado Lottery eventually offers online ticket sales. He cited New Hampshire, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., as places where couriers and state-sanctioned online lottery sales co-exist.

“We live in an age of convenience and, quite frankly, if you don’t want your players to age out and you to continue returning those funds to good causes, you have to reach players where they are,” Metzger said. “People just don’t have the same behavioral patterns that they used to. So we need to modernize the lottery like everything else is modern.”

Three of those Colorado players were in southern Colorado.

The tickets were sold at the following locations:

Colorado Springs
• $500,000 winner at King Soopers (1070 W Baptist Road)
• $100,000 winner at Circle K (3211 Cenntenial Boulevard)

Pueblo
• $100,000 winner at Alta Convenience (504 S Prairie Avenue)

In Douglas County, one winner went home with a $100,000 ticket, sold at the 7 Eleven in Lone Tree.

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No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth largest U.S. jackpot ever for Monday’s drawing, according to a news release from Powerball.

The biggest U.S. jackpot was $2.04 billion in 2022. The winner bought the ticket in California and opted for a lump sum payment of $997.6 million.

The odds of winning Monday’s jackpot, which is the fourth largest in Powerball history, are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.

The winner can opt for a lump sum payment estimated at $735.3 million or an annuitized prize estimated at $1.6 billion. Both prize options are before taxes.

The annuity option offers one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5 percent each year, Powerball said.

Powerball is available in 45 states and Washington. It is overseen by the Multi-State Lottery Association, a nonprofit group made up of state lotteries. Profits from ticket sales are used by states to support public education and other services.

A “” jackpot-winning ticket was sold at the Corner Store in Lafayette, netting the winner $1,000 a day for life for a cash value of $5.75 million, state officials said in a news release.

Another $1.9 million ticket was sold at Winners Corner in Pueblo, which has a cash value of $950,000.

The Powerball jackpot is now at $1.25 billion, officials said.

The seven large-prize tickets sold in Colorado are worth between $50,000 and $1 million, according to a news release from the . The prizes include:

• $1 million from a ticket sold at a Kum & Go/Maverick at 9665 Prominent Point in Colorado Springs
• $100,000 from a ticket sold at a Loaf N Jug at 101 West Brontosaurus Boulevard in Dinosaur
• $100,000 from a ticket sold at a Kum & Go/Maverick at 70 West Bridge Street in Brighton
• $100,000 from a ticket sold at a Sherman Food & Gas at 207 South Sherman Street in Fort Morgan
• $100,000 from a ticket sold at an A-1 Food & Gas at 10300 East Sixth Avenue in Aurora
• $50,000 from a ticket sold at a King Soopers at 17761 Cottonwood Drive in Parker
• $50,000 from a ticket sold at Banana Belt Liquors at 300 U.S. 24 in Woodland Park

Two Powerball players in Missouri and Texas won the nearly $1.8 billion jackpot during Saturday night’s drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month drought without a winner. The two winners will split the jackpot.

The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61, and 62, with the Powerball number being 17.

The winning ticket in Texas was sold at a gas station-convenience store in Fredericksburg, according to the Texas Lottery.

The $1.787 billion prize, which was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history, followed 41 consecutive drawings in which no one matched all six numbers. The last drawing with a jackpot winner happened on May 31.

Powerball’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes growing as they roll over when no one wins. Lottery officials note that the odds are far better for the game’s many smaller prizes. There are three drawings each week.

The Missouri and Texas winners will have the choice between an annuitized prize of $893.5 million or a lump sum payment of $410.3 million. Both prize options are before taxes. If a winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year. Powerball tickets cost $2, and the game is offered in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

The winning Colorado lottery tickets ranged in value from $50,000 to $ 1 million, according to a news release from the Colorado Lottery.

Lottery officials said the $1 million ticket was sold at a Safeway gas station in Peyton, a town in El Paso County.

A ticket worth $100,000 was sold at a King Soopers in Arvada, and tickets worth $50,000 were sold at a Harts Gas & Food in Estes Park and a King Soopers in Castle Rock, according to the release.

Two other winning tickets, neither of which took the jackpot, were sold in Colorado for Monday’s drawing, . One worth $2 million was sold in Parker, and one worth $150,000 was sold in Colorado Springs.

Without any jackpot winners, Saturday’s Powerball drawing has jumped to an estimated $1.7 billion — the third-largest in the game’s history, according to . There have been more than 40 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers, and no one has won the grand prize since May 31.

The Powerball jackpot reached $2.04 billion in May 2023 and $1.72 billion in April 2024.

No one has matched all six numbers since May 31, allowing the to $1.1 billion, which would be the fifth-largest prize in the game’s history. Payments would be spread over 30 years, or a winner could choose an immediate lump sum of an estimated $498.4 million, again before taxes.

The odds of matching all six numbers are astronomical: 1 in 292.2 million. The likelihood of getting is far greater. But with so many people putting down money for a chance at life-changing wealth, someone eventually wins.

The numbers drawn Saturday were 3, 18, 22, 27 and 33, with the Powerball 17.

Powerball, which costs $2 per ticket, is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held each week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights.

One winner, identified as “Sean S.” in the release, played the same numbers used by his grandfather when the latter bought a Quick Pick ticket shortly before his death in 2018.

The numbers — 11-18-23-38-60 — netted Sean S. a $1 million prize on St. Patrick’s Day, which he learned of after receiving a notification on his phone.

He told Colorado Lottery that he plans to put most of the money toward retirement but may spend some on home improvements and a new car.

“A Corvette would be my favorite,” he said in the release. “But since I have two kids, maybe just a new Tahoe. It����ap functional.”

Sean S. bought his ticket in Pueblo. A $2 million ticket was also sold in Denver, and a $100,000 ticket was sold in Longmont ahead of the March 19 Powerball drawing. The March 12 drawing also produced winners, including a $1 million ticket sold in Loveland and a $100,000 ticket sold in Rangely.

The Powerball jackpot had climbed to $444 million as of Saturday morning, with scheduled for 8:59 p.m. ]]> 6967442 2025-03-22T12:48:59+00:00 2025-03-22T12:48:59+00:00 /2024/09/28/nuggets-games-local-tv-fans/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:33:12 +0000 /?p=6748668 Psst, Nuggets fans: Got any hunches on the Powerball numbers?

Team Grading The Week could use a sweet little influx of capital right about now. And right now, the way we see it, y’all are on a serious roll. Peyton Watson news aside, Friday night just capped maybe the best week to be a fan of the blue and gold since — what, June 12, 2023? The night of Game 5 at Ball Arena?

Consider this: Over one 100-hour stretch, Nuggets fans saw:

• An agreement to watch actual games, over the air, on Denver stations again;

• A new, direct-to-consumer streaming service for Nuggets — and Avalanche — games not in exclusive national rights windows;

• Franchise hurdle Karl Anthony-Towns traded out of not just Minnesota, but shipped out of the Western Conference entirely, as part of a package to the Knicks.

Nuggets Nation, especially those in Denver — A

OK, so let’s get Friday’s bad news out of the way first, with the caveat being that it might not be that bad after all: Athletic swingman Peyton Watson is likely out for the entire preseason while he recovers from a soft tissue hamstring injury. Coach Michael Malone sounded hopeful that nipping this in the bud now hopefully alleviates any concerns down the road, and that the goal is to get springy No. 8 on track to play in the regular season.

But enough about October hoops, huh? The GTW cognoscenti are judging these Nuggets, and the five years of prime championship window Calvin Booth says they have left, on what happens in April, May and June. (Or doesn’t.)

And a shocking swap may have made one of those spring matchups, and one postseason matchup, a little friendlier, on paper.

KAT is a big reason — literally, physically, you name it— why the Wolves stunned the Nuggets in the Western Conference semis this past year. Nikola Jokic, like Superman, has precious few weaknesses. But a team that can run out two capable 7-footers on the floor in the same lineup, including one who effectively serves as a stretch-4 on offense, is one of them.

Minnesota might have more roster/payroll flexibility on paper after trading KAT in a deal that reportedly would bring back Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo and a draft pick. But they don’t match up nearly as well with the Nuggets, head-to-head, without a hot-shooting KAT, who averaged 24.0 points, 11 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 23 regular-season tussles against Denver. The 6-8 Randle, who’s no slouch, has averaged 18.9 points, 8.5 boards and 4.4 dimes against the Nuggets.

Broncos vs. Helene — B-minus

Sean Payton beat the Bucs, but he couldn’t beat Mother Nature. Keeping his Broncos out east for a week seemed like a foolproof plan — until Tropical Depression Helene showed up. The Greenbrier Resort, the Broncos’ East-Coast HQ in West Virginia, doesn’t have an indoor football practice facility. Because the Appalachians were hit especially hard by the Helene, the Broncos were forced to spend their Friday practice for Sunday’s tilt at the Jets on the resort’s indoor tennis courts.

“It����ap part of the deal,” Payton told reporters Friday. “I kind of like it. It was good. I didn’t realize they had this facility.”

John Elway, singer — A for effort; C+ for pitch

If your grandpa is cooler than our grandpa, it’s because your grandpa is John Elway. Takes some big cajónes

As for the performance, let’s just say Elway’s a heck of a lot better at singing than any of the kids at the GTW offices would ever be at (deep breath) … playing quarterback; playing pro baseball; being an NFL GM; owning an Arena Football League team; golf; steak; wine; cars; investment portfolios; or Plus, have you ever seen Ken Jeong THAT happy? This one’s for Leaf Sheep.