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Most U.S. pick-5 games now have a progressive jackpot, even in games that are drawn daily; in unusual cases, a single ticket has won a cash prize in excess of $1 million cash. A common top prize in non-jackpot pick-5 games is $100,000(In the lists below, games with a jackpot do not have a minimum jackpot listed.).
Our Quick Pick is similar to what in-person lottery retailers offer, but with a huge advantage: You get to see the numbers before you commit to the order. If you don’t like what you see, you can ...
The December 29, 2010, drawing of the multi-state lottery game Hot Lotto featured an advertised top prize of US$16.5 million. [21] On November 9, 2011, Philip Johnston, a resident of Quebec City, Canada, [5] phoned the Iowa Lottery to claim a ticket that had won the jackpot; stating he was too sick to claim the prize in person, he provided a 15-digit code that verified the winning ticket.
The probability of hitting the jackpot varies between the different lotteries. Popular US lotteries have odds ranging from the astronomical 1 in ~300 million in Mega Millions (a double-pick lottery) to the fairly good 1 in ~170 thousand in the Wisconsin Lottery Badger 5 (a pick-5, 31 number lottery). Wheeling systems are usually intended to ...
A lottery player made random picks on a ticket machine — and hit the jackpot. “I was just blown away,” the lucky winner told the Maryland Lottery. The man was between deliveries at his job ...
Sep. 13—The U.S. Postal Service and AARP provides details regarding foreign lottery scams and other scams. 1 Are many people targeted through lottery scams and other scams? Con artists target ...
The Lottery offered a form of instant win game known as Instant Match. [32] Available as a $1 add-on to Pick-3, Pick-4 and Jersey Cash 5 tickets, the lottery terminal's random number generator produced a same-sized set of numbers to the main game. If any of the randomly generated numbers match the ticket's chosen numbers, the player wins the ...
The tipster told Estes that something weird was happening with the lottery, and that she should find a copy of the 20/20—a record of players who had won at least 20 times and $20,000 over the previous year. The Massachusetts State Lottery circulated this list to state agencies, in case someone on it wasn’t paying taxes or child support.