Dan Carden

The $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing has lottery ticket machines across Indiana spitting out numbers nearly nonstop as Hoosiers waiting in line dream of everything they could do with all that money.

Meanwhile, Hoosier Lottery officials are keeping their eyes on a different set of numbers, and hoping for perhaps a few more Powerball rollovers, after learning last month that Indiana lottery ticket sales declined $138 million, or nearly 8%, during the 12-month period ending June 30.

"We didn't have the year we had hoped for," said Chuck Taylor, Hoosier Lottery director of legal affairs and compliance, during the Aug. 19 meeting of the State Lottery Commission of Indiana.

One reason for the decline was a lackluster $376 million in ticket sales for mul

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