On a recent evening, one worker at a corner store in the Bronx showed just how easy it is to spend triple digits on scratch-offs. Standing behind the counter at Riverdale Gourmet Deli, he lost more ...

While credit cards are used to buy everything from human skeletons to celebrity encounters these days, the winner of this week's $1.5 billion lottery will likely purchase a paper ticket, in person ...

On April 23, 2014, the Washington State team ran the lottery, with little fanfare. “It really turns out to be somewhat anticlimactic, because it’s really just, you press a button on a computer ...