Pre-Wisconsin Lottery
The first "modern" lottery tickets in Wisconsin were sold on Oneida Nation of Wisconsin land near Green Bay. Before the Wisconsin Lottery began, some players who did not want to drive to Illinois tried their luck at stores on the reservation. The main game offered by the Oneida Nation was Big Green, which began as a pick-6-of-36 jackpot game. The Oneida Nation also offered a televised bingo game program on Green Bay stations in the mid-to-late 1980s, which was in the form of a caller reading the numbers on the bottom of the screen, with the lighted number board on the top portion, allowing winners to redeem winning cards at the tribe's bingo hall.
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