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Hot Lotto®

Price: $1 or $2 with
Hot Lotto Sizzler option

How To Play

Pick 5 numbers out of 39. Then pick your Hot Ball, 1 out of 19.

Pick your own numbers or let the computer pick them for you by asking for an easy pick.

Purchase up to 10 consecutive drawings at a time.

Drawings held at 9:40 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sales cut-off time is 8:18 pm on the day of the drawing.

Win the jackpot by matching all 5 white numbers and the Hot Ball. Other prizes also awarded.

Hot Lotto prizes must be claimed within 365 days of the drawing for which they were eligible.

Hot Lotto Sizzler Option

Ask your retailer for the Hot Lotto Sizzler option every time you play Hot Lotto and you will triple your prize (except the jackpot).

Pay $1 extra per play and your prize, except for the jackpot, will be multiplied by three. A $500 prize would be worth $1,500 and a $10,000 prize would be worth $30,000! The Hot Lotto Sizzler is a permanent addition to the Hot Lotto game.

Prizes & Odds

Jackpot starts at $1 million!

Match	Prize Without Hot Lotto Sizzler	Prize With Hot Lotto Sizzler	Odds
5 + 1	*Jackpot	*Jackpot	1 in 10,939,383.00
5 + 0	$10,000	$30,000	1 in 607,744.00
4 + 1	$500	$1,500	1 in 689,064.85
4 + 0	$50	$150	1 in 15,312.55
3 + 1	$50	$150	1 in 1,950.00
3 + 0	$4	$12	1 in 108.00
2 + 1	$4	$12	1 in 183.00
1 + 1	$3	$9	1 in 47.00
0 + 1	$2	$6	1 in 39.00

Overall Odds: 1 in 16.09

* The jackpot prize will be divided equally among multiple winners based on the amount available to the lottery for the jackpot prize pool. The set prize amounts published here are based on the expected number of winners shared in the prize pool. In some cases, these prizes may be paid on a pari-mutuel basis and will be lower than these prize levels.

Participating Lotteries

Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and District of Columbia.

A Note About Jackpots

You have 60 days to decide whether to collect a jackpot prize with the annuity or cash option. If you select the annuity option and the cost to purchase the annuity is less than $250,000, the lottery may elect to pay that prize as a cash option prize. If you select the cash option, the prize will be a single cash payment equal to the amount available to the lottery for the jackpot prize pool. The cash prize is estimated to be approximately one-half of the estimated annuitized jackpot (the advertised jackpot paid over 25 years), depending on current interest rates.