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Article: Driven to boost revenue, Lottery plans racing game
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2006
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The Massachusetts State Lottery is preparing to launch a new game
by early next year that would let gamblers bet on animated car races
shown on Keno-style video monitors, according to state Treasurer
Timothy Cahill, who oversees the Lottery.
The Lottery had planned to launch a similar game featuring
animated horse races in December 2005, but backed off after the
state's horse track operators complained it could siphon business
away from them.
Cahill said the car-racing game, complete with sound effects,
would be a new version of the Lottery's existing Keno game. Instead
of players trying to guess randomly selected winning numbers, they
will try to guess randomly selected winning cars and ...