HOT LOTTO PLAYERS HAVE CHANCE TO WIN
UP TO $100,000 IN NEW PROMOTION

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Cash Blast Promotion Runs Through
March 4

DES MOINES, Iowa – Hot Lotto players have the chance to win up to $100,000 in a new promotion that began Sunday.

The Hot Lotto Sizzler $100,000 Cash Blast promotion runs through March 4 and offers a top prize of $100,000. Forty Iowa Lottery players also will win $500 prizes each in the promotion.

Ken Brickman, the lottery's acting CEO, said the promotion is an important opportunity for the lottery to offer its customers added value for the tickets they buy.

"Second-chance promotions are a top request from our players and we're pleased to deliver what they want with the $100,000 Cash Blast," he said.

Players can enter the promotion by buying a Hot Lotto Sizzler ticket of at least $4 between Sunday and Feb. 28. (Tickets must have at least two Hot Lotto Sizzler plays on one ticket and the drawing dates involved cannot extend past Feb. 28.) If your ticket doesn’t win a prize, you can visit the lottery Web site at www.ialottery.com and enter the promotion by keying in the serial number from your ticket.

Players have until noon on March 4 to enter their nonwinning tickets in the promotion. They'll need to keep all of the tickets they enter, because tickets must be presented to the lottery to claim a prize. Each ticket can be entered only once in the promotion.

Seven states including Iowa are participating in the promotion. On March 4, 40 winners of $500 prizes will be selected from each state. One overall winner of $100,000 also will be selected from all seven states' qualified entries.

Players can enter as many times as they wish, but may win only one prize. Entry into the promotion will be online only; no hand-delivered or mail-in entries will be accepted.

Hot Lotto players choose five numbers from a pool of 39 and another number, called the Hot Ball, from a pool of 19. The Hot Lotto jackpot starts at $1 million and grows until someone wins it. Tickets in the game cost $1. Hot Lotto drawings are held at about 9:40 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, just before the Powerball drawings. The Hot Lotto Sizzler is a multiplier option that triples prizes won, except the jackpot. The Sizzler costs $1 extra per play.

The Hot Lotto jackpot was last won on Jan. 10 and has grown to an estimated $1.63 million for Wednesday's drawing. Iowa Lottery players have won six jackpots in the game.