Article: Driven to boost revenue, Lottery plans racing game

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 ...

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