Lottery To End Monopoly Game As Losses Pile Up

Last updated on Thursday, December 18, 2014

(INDIANAPOLIS) - The Hoosier Lottery is expected to lose about $500,000 on a Monopoly game that is being canceled later this month.

Lottery officials in the 23 states where the Monopoly Millionaires Club draw game is played announced this week that the game would end Dec. 26.

Sales of the game nationwide failed to cover the amount needed to cover the $21 million jackpot that was hit Nov. 7 in New Jersey. Hoosier Lottery officials had lost nearly $348,000 on the game through Nov. 30, and The (Munster) Times reports that figure is expected to grow by the game's end.

The Hoosier Lottery sold about $540,000 in $5 Monopoly tickets through Nov. 30. The lottery sells about $2 million in scratch-off tickets daily.

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