Jump to content

Washington's Lottery

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bingomzan (talk | contribs) at 06:51, 6 July 2008. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This article deals with the lottery for the state of Washington. For the District of Columbia lottery see: D.C. Lottery.

File:WALottery.jpg
Washington's Lottery logo

Washington's Lottery is run by the government of Washington. Its games include Mega Millions, Keno, Hit 5, and numerous scratch games (including Lucky For Life, which replaced a numbers game by the same name).

Games

Washington's Lottery offers several draw games, plus numerous scratch ticket games. The list of draw games is as follows:

Game Matriices Prizes
Lotto Pick 6 of 49 $3-Jackpot (Jackpot starts at $1 million)
Mega Millions Pick 5 of 56, Pick 1 of 46 $2-Jackpot (Jackpot starts at $10 million)
Hit 5 Pick 5 of 39 $1-Cashpot (Cashpot starts at $100k)
Daily Keno Pick 10 of 80 Prizes vary by number of 'spots' picked and matched.
Daily Game Pick 3 numbers, each from 0-9 Prizes vary by betting style.

A list of scratch ticket games found in washington can be found *here

Retired Games

This is a list of the draw games that have been retired and the dates they were active.

Name Dates Rules
Quinto March 17, 2007 Pick 5 of 52 cards
Lotto Plus May 1, 2002 - October 4, 2003 Pick 5 of ??, Pick 1 of ??

Special Games

For it's 25th annerversary, the lottery made it's first raffle game. 375,000 tickets were sold for 3 chances at $1 million, 4 chances at $100k, and 350 chances for $1k. In the first drawing, all the tickets sold out. In Spring 2008, They repeated the raffle, with the same numbers of tickets, etc. This time over 100,000 were left unsold.

==Special Rules Many US lotteries draw some games, such as pick-3, at least twice daily. However, local law prohibits Washington's Lottery from drawing any of its games more than once per day. This explains why its Keno is not drawn every few minutes, unlike a growing number of US lotteries.

Minimum age to play is 18.