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SuperLotto Plus is a lotto game played in the style of Mega Millions and Powerball. SuperLotto Plus is drawn every Wednesday and Saturday. The game began in 1986 as Lotto 6/49 (which was played similarly to the Canadian version of the game), then changed to SuperLotto somewhere in the 90s (with the matrix of 6/51).
The add-on game The Kicker (see above) was "transferred" from Super Lotto Plus to Mega Millions in 2005; Ohio ended The Kicker when the Megaplier (which began as a Texas-only option) was available to Ohio players of Mega Millions in 2011. Mega Millions' starting jackpot is $40 million, paid in 30 graduated installments; a cash option is available.
California Lottery officials on Saturday announced that a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket worth $82 million was sold in Victorville.
In the United States, lotteries are run by 48 jurisdictions: 45 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lotteries are subject to the laws of and operated independently by each jurisdiction, and there is no national lottery organization.
Caribbean Lottery, Super Lotto Barbados: Barbados Lottery (multiple games), Super Lotto Belize: Boledo, Mega Bingo, Fantasy-5, Pick 3 Canada: Lotto 6/49, Lotto Max, Daily Grand, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Loto-Québec, Western Canada Lottery Corporation
The Florida Lottery is the government-operated lottery of the U.S. state of Florida.As of 2022, the lottery offers eleven terminal-generated games: Cash4Life, Mega Millions, Powerball, Florida Lotto, Pick 2, Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, Fantasy 5, Cash Pop, and Jackpot Triple Play.
Rank Jackpot Cash value Tickets Per ticket Game Date Location Notes 1 $2.04b $997.6m 1 $997.6m Powerball: Nov 7, 2022 CA: Largest jackpot for a single ticket; largest cash value for a single ticket.
Some U.S. lotteries also offer a smaller "mega-number" game. For example, California offers SuperLotto Plus, where the first five numbers are drawn from a set of 47 white balls; its Mega number is drawn from a set of 27 purple balls by a second machine. Pennsylvania once offered a jackpot game where the order drawn did matter.