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The Hoosier Lottery is the official state lottery of Indiana, and is the only US lottery that uses the state's nickname as its official name. It is a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). The Hoosier Lottery sells scratch-off tickets; its draw games include Mega Millions, Hoosier Lotto, Powerball, Cash 5, and Poker Lotto.
In 1988, state voters approved a constitutional amendment lifting the lottery ban, establishing the Hoosier Lottery. [3] The Hoosier Lottery sells scratch-off tickets since October 1989. It is a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association since 1990. and co-founder of Powerball in 1992. It joined Mega Millions in 2010 and Cash4Life in 2016 ...
A Hoosier Lottery employee holds Mega Millions tickets. (Darron Cummings/AP) (AP) There’s still a chance — 1 in nearly 303 million — for a lucky winner to score the Mega Millions jackpot, ...
Six-number games historically are the most popular kind of lottery in the U.S., although "5+1" games have grown in popularity, especially with the rise of multi-state games. The Canadian Lotto 6/49 is one of its two national lottery games. Typically, six-number games cost $1 per play. and most are drawn twice weekly, often Wednesdays and Saturdays.
If you're feeling lucky, here's how you can play the Mega Millions. You'll need to be in the right state, and know the rules around the numbers.
Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.
Mega Millions numbers 2/20/24: $493M lottery drawing jackpot results Tuesday night's winning numbers were 5, 45, 55, 58, 68, and the Mega Ball was 7. The Megaplier was 2X.
The state and local government also receive revenue from a variety of other more minor sources. A gaming tax is imposed on winnings in state casinos, horse tracks, and from the Hoosier Lottery that provided $647 million in revenues in 2008. [4] Excise taxes are charged on several products.