Computers and Slot Machines
In 2007, the Oregon Lottery released a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget which relays the winning numbers for Powerball in live time. The gadget also provides large jackpot announcements.
In 2006, WMS Gaming released a range of slot machines under the Powerball brand name.
The New York Lottery introduced a Powerball scratchcard in 2010. Five winning numbers plus a powerball were printed across the top of the card, with 12 opportunities to match. Matching the winning numbers or the powerball won; the top prize was $1 million (annuity); unlike actual Powerball, there was no cash option for the top prize.
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Famous quotes containing the words slot and/or machines:
“Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)