Tonight Derren Brown will reveal how he magically predicted the midweek national lottery draw on Wednesday night.

TORONTO – The ousted chief executive officer of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is suing the provincial government for her dismissal.

The first shipment of Arkansas’ lottery tickets are arriving in the state next week. The state’s lottery commission announced Friday that it plans to hold a ceremony Monday at a Little Rock distribution center to mark the arrival of the scratch-off tickets. Ticket sales start Sept. 28.

Lottery players around the United States hoping to win big by betting on all nines may have come up empty when they got to the lottery terminal.

COMMERCIAL LOTTERY OPERATOR Pacific Online Systems Corp. is expanding its distribution channel for instant lottery ScratchIt as part of plans to double sales of the instant tickets to P1 billion.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:55 AM CDT LITTLE ROCK — State health officials told the state Lottery Commission on Wednesday they plan to use a portion of the lottery’s start-up budget to launch a program to help problem gamblers, though it may be nearly two years before comprehensive services are available statewide.

Derren Brown has promised to reveal how he appeared to predict all six numbers of the Wednesday lottery draw in a followup programme on Friday evening. Here are six of the most popular theories circulating on the web.

Derren Brown may have flummoxed the nation with his Lottery trick but one YouTube user claims to have the secret and has successfully recreated it.