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3 unusual facts about Powerball


Mike Pace

Mike Pace is an Iowa radio and television personality, most notable as the former emcee of Powerball drawings.

Multi-State Lottery Association

MUSL has retired several games, including Ca$hola (video lottery), Daily Millions, Rolldown, and the Powerball scratchcard game; the latter was tied to a weekly television game show produced for two years in Hollywood, California called Powerball: The Game Show; then for two years from the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, called Powerball Instant Millionaire.

Powerball: The Game Show

Powerball: The Game Show was a lottery-based game show that aired from October 2000 to September 2002 in some of the jurisdictions that offered the Powerball game.


Hot Lotto

Hot Lotto drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday, the same nights as Powerball, at MUSL's headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa.

Lotto*America

Except for Maine, the above lotteries were the original lineup for Powerball when it began in April 1992.

Oklahoma Lottery

Powerball numbers now are televised via Chicago-based cable superstation WGN America (available on most cable, IPTV and satellite providers in the state; it also carries Mega Millions due to the Illinois Lottery's participation in both games) or on the lottery's website.

Polly Carver-Kimm

Carver-Kimm has also hosted the televised multi-state Powerball lottery drawing when Mike Pace was on vacation.


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