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This game began on April 2, 2013, as a 6/38 game. Players would pick 6 numbers from 1–38 to try to win a top prize of $200,000 taxes paid. Players got 3 sets of numbers for $2. Players won prizes by matching 3 or more numbers on each line and as few as 5 numbers on all 3 lines to the lottery’s drawn numbers.
The lists do not include "4+1" games, such as Florida's Lucky Money, where all five numbers must be matched to win the top prize, but are drawn from two number fields(A similar game, Montana's "Big Sky Bonus", is actually a "four-number" game; the double matrix is 4/31 + 1/16(previously was 4/28 + 1/17). Matching all four "regular" numbers wins ...
The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.
Because “4” was the Megaplier number that was drawn, the prize was quadrupled for the $40,000 prize. The odds of matching four white balls and the gold Megaball are 1-in-931,001, according to ...
The ticket matched four of the five white numbers and the red Powerball number, lottery officials said. The winning numbers in the Sept. 9 drawing were 11, 19, 29, 63, 68 and Powerball: 25.
Lotteries in the United States did not always have sterling reputations. One early lottery in particular, the National Lottery, which was passed by Congress for the beautification of Washington, D.C., and was administered by the municipal government, was the subject of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision – Cohens v. Virginia. [7]
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The jackpot is won in the "classic" way, by matching all six numbers in one set, rather than the total matched against the 18. Some six-number games actually draw seven numbers; the first six for the top prize, and a seventh, "bonus" number for some lower-tier prize levels. These "bonus" numbers are drawn from the remaining numbers in the same ...