About Lucky for Life®
Play Lucky for Life® and you could win $1,000 a day, every day, for LIFE!
How To Play
Lucky for Life costs $2 per play.
Choose 5 out of 48 numbers for the white balls; then choose 1 out of 18 numbers for the Lucky Ball.
Use a play slip to choose your own numbers or request an "easy pick" from the clerk and the lotto
terminal will choose the numbers for you. Play more than one drawing by marking the "multi-draw"
box on the play slip for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 or 10 consecutive drawings.
Drawings are held daily at approximately 9:38 p.m. CT. Tickets may be purchased
until 8:30 p.m. on the evening of the drawing.
Win the top prize of $1,000 a day for LIFE by matching all 5 white balls and the Lucky Ball. The game's
second prize - for matching all five white balls without the Lucky Ball - is $25,000 a year for LIFE. There are
8 other ways to win, so be sure to check your ticket after each drawing.
Lucky for Life prizes won before or on April 22, 2023, must be claimed within 365 days of the drawing for
which they were eligible; prizes for the April 23, 2023, drawing or later must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing for which they were eligible.
Prizes and Odds
| Match |
Prize |
Odds |
| 5 + 1 |
*$1,000 a day for LIFE |
1 in 30,821,472.00 |
| 5 + 0 |
*$25,000 a year for LIFE |
1 in 1,813,027.77 |
| 4 + 1 |
*$5,000 |
1 in 143,355.68 |
| 4 + 0 |
$200 |
1 in 8,432.69 |
| 3 + 1 |
$150 |
1 in 3,413.23 |
| 3 + 0 |
$20 |
1 in 200.78 |
| 2 + 1 |
$25 |
1 in 249.75 |
| 2 + 0 |
$3 |
1 in 14.69 |
| 1 + 1 |
$6 |
1 in 49.95 |
| 0 + 1 |
$4 |
1 in 32.02 |
Overall Odds: 1 in 7.77
*The set prize amounts published here are based on the expected number of winners sharing 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.
Lucky for Life Top and Second Prize Options
The minimum payment period for the top and second prizes is 20 years. For both, players have the choice of a Cash Option
as an alternative to the Annuitized Payment option, as described in the table below. Players have 60 days from the date
they claim their prize to choose the Cash or the Annuitized Payment option. Prizes that are governed by "split-prize"
liability are divided equally among the winning tickets and may be less than shown.
Top Prize
| Winners |
Annuitized Payment Option |
Cash Option |
| 1 |
$1,000 a day for life |
$5,750,000.00 |
| 2-14 |
**$1,000 a day for life |
**$5,750,000.00 |
| 15 or more |
(No annuitized payment option) |
**$7,125,000.00 |
Second Prize
| Winners |
Annuitized Payment Option |
Cash Option |
| 1-20 |
$25,000 a year for life |
$390,000.00 |
| 21 or more |
(No annuitized payment option) |
**$9,400,000.00 |
**Divided by the number of winners
History
Iowa is the 18th state to offer the Lucky for Life game, which got its start in Connecticut in 2009 before
becoming a New England-wide game three years later and adding even more lotteries in the past year. The game began holding daily drawings in July 2021.
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