Delaware State Lottery over the years

Charlie Richardson, a clerk at Johnny's Supermarket, sells lottery tickets in 1988.

Charlie Richardson, a clerk at Johnny's Supermarket, sells lottery tickets in 1988.

Lottery lines from early on Monday morning at Brewer's outlet on Concord Pike for the PA lottery in 1984.

Lottery lines from early on Monday morning at Brewer's outlet on Concord Pike for the PA lottery in 1984.

James Lee Pryor, 86, waited about 7 hours to get a lottery ticket just over the state line in Pennsylvania in 1989.

Richard "Dick" Fretz of Smryna gets a kiss from his wife Margaret after winning $100,000 in the Delaware Lottery in 1976.

Delaware Lottery winner Raymond Wisler in 1989.

Denise Blackwell had turned lottery numbers for 3.5 years by 1990.

An undated Delaware Lottery card.

A woman fills out a lottery ticket in the Brandywine business in 1975.

Dick Gropper checks out a new self-service lottery machine at Brewers Outlet on Concord Pike in 1985.

Line for lottery tickets at Ben Bows Liquor and Package Store in Dover in 1985.

Nick Vouras, owner of Union Street News on Sixth and Union doles out lottery numbers in May 1985.

Edna Gilbert leads a line of people waiting to play Delaware Lottery at Brookside News Center in 1985.

Line for lottery tickets at Brookside News Stand in 1985.

Officials draw lottery numbers in 1978.

Ted Bowman, deputy director of sales for the Delaware State Lottery, with the lottery's number machines in 1978.

A $50,000 lottery winner in 1980, in the hat.

Lottery production supervisor John Lyons cuts tickets into single columns in 1976.

Lottery office workers sort through tickets and boxes while accounting for unsold tickets in 1976.

Production supervisor John Lyons checking lottery ticket numbers before they are sealed in plastic and sent to state banks in 1976.

Undated Blue Diamond lottery picture.

Maggie Fleming of Chester, Pennsylvania, buys a Powerball ticket at Naamans Beverage Mart in 1993.

7-11 owner Maurice Egnor and part-time employee Rosaria Alvini work during a $78 million lottery jackpot. The store was on Route 13 at Bacon Road.

Barbara Long punches tickets at Steve's on Centerville Road in 1992.

Denise Blackwell draws one of seven daily numbers for "Pick and Play 4" in 1990.

Bill Lipscomb of Christiana buys a lottery ticket at 7-11 in Newport in 1993.

Nathaniel Thompkins, 77, says he plays the lottery twice a week, most always at Lincoln Smoke Shop in Wilmington, in 1994.

Filling out a weekly betting slip for Delaware Lottery in 1985.

Betting in the Delaware State Lottery in 1985.

A 1983 Delaware State Lottery billboard.

Lottery tickets sold at Angelo's market in 1987.

Sam Patel, owner of the Convenient Store on 9th and Orange Street punches in numbers for 19 Mega Million lottery tickets for Greg de Rio(cq), who was purchasing the tickets for his co-workers in the housekeeping department at the Hotel DuPont on Thursday, March 29, 2012.

A customer fills out numbers Thursday, March 29, 2012, for the $540 million Mega Millions lottery at the Convenient Store on 9th and Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware.

Festival goers line up to buy Powerball lottery tickets during the 24th annual Middletown Old-Tyme Peach Festival parade in 2018.

Bev Ward, a store clerk at Airport News in New Castle, sells Powerball lottery on Friday evening. Saturday's drawing of the Powerball will be reaching $300 million.

Navin Patel, co-owner of Cutrona'a Liquors on N. Market Street helps a customer purchase lottery tickets on Thursday, October 4, 2012. Wednesday night $50 million dollar lottery ticket was sold at the store.

Navin Patel, co-owner of Cutrona'a Liquors on N. Market Street helps a customer purchase lottery tickets on Thursday, October 4, 2012. Wednesday night $50 million dollar lottery ticket was sold at the store.

A customer who didn't want to be identified gives Joe Schultz money for Powerball tickets. Lottery ticket sales for the $425 million Powerball Jackpot to be drawn Wednesday are not brisk yet at Airport News and Tobacco in New Castle November 26, 2012.

- -Despite a $16 million jackpot, there was no line at the Fred Meyer South Megabucks Kiosk as David Nightengale buys a ticket for today's drawing.- - Photo by Ron Cooper. #990256