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Virginia's Cash 5 with EZ Match game draws five numbers from 1 to 45. The minimum ticket cost is $1. The top prize is a parimutuel jackpot that starts at $200,000 and grows until there is a 5-of-5 winner. Players also win if they match 2, 3, or 4 numbers in any given position. Drawings are held on every night at 11PM.
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 ...
Typically, higher-priced tickets offer better odds of winning, higher top prizes (up to $1 million for a $20 game; $2,500,000 cash or a $3 million annuity for a $25 game, $3 million cash for a $30 game, and $5 million cash for a $50 game), and a higher payout percentage. Payouts range from 57% of sales ($1 tickets) to 76.94% ($30 tickets), to ...
The games include Cash4Life, Numbers, Win 4, Take 5 and Pick 10 Cash4Life is a multi-state lottery game available in 10 states. The top prize is $1,000 a day for life or a one-time lump sum of ...
Grand Prize: Match all five numbers and the Mega Ball number to win the biggest Mega Millions jackpots. The odds of winning are one in 302,575,350. Match 5: Match all five numbers to win $1 ...
Over time, the size of Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots has generally increased because of higher ticket prices, the larger number of states participating (especially after cross-selling was allowed), and the reduced odds of winning. [4] List of U.S. lottery drawings of $400 million or more (annuity value): [5] [6]
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.
Jerry saw that you had a 1-in-54 chance to pick three out of the six numbers in a drawing, winning $5, and a 1-in-1,500 chance to pick four numbers, winning $100. What he now realized, doing some mental arithmetic, was that a player who waited until the roll-down stood to win more than he lost, on average, as long as no player that week picked ...