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South Korea: Lotto 6/45, Popcorn, Speeto500, Pension Lottery 520 (generally called 'Bok-Kwon', 복권) Sri Lanka: National Lottery, Development Lottery. Taiwan: Taiwan Lottery. Thailand: "Government Lottery", also called lottery or หวย (huay), which comes from the Chinese word meaning flower. Vietnam: Vietlott.
In September 2003, two numbers were added to make Jersey Cash 5 a 5/40 game, and the top prize level was changed to a progressive jackpot. [8] On September 14, 2014, Jersey Cash 5 increased its field of numbers from 40 to 43 and became a 5/43 game. Its estimated starting jackpot prize was also increased - from $50,000 to $75,000. [11]
Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
4/40 Jackpot was the Rhode Island Lottery's first terminal-based jackpot game, which began in 1981. As the name suggested, it used a pick-4-of-40 number matrix, with "just the jackpot" tickets being offered for $1 each; a $2 "insurance" option allowed a ticket to qualify for smaller prizes should it match 2 or 3 of the 4 drawn numbers.
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner— regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as ...
The games include New York Lotto, Cash4Life, Numbers, Win 4, Take 5 and Pick 10. Cash4Life is a multi-state lottery game available in 10 states. The top prize is $1,000 a day for life or a one ...
As the payout percentage in Lotto is a statutory 40%, sales of the game have been in a years-long decline, especially since the addition of Mega Millions(in 2002) and Powerball(in 2010) to the Lottery's portfolio, and the expansion of Cash4Life to nightly drawings; of these three only Mega Millions is not drawn the same nights as Lotto.
DC-5, Florida's Pick 5, Georgia Five, Louisiana's Pick 5, Maryland's Pick 5, Ohio's Pick 5, Pennsylvania's Pick 5, and Virginia's Pick 5 also do not truly fit this category, as they are five-digit numbers games with "straight" and "box" wagers played like many U.S. pick-3 and pick-4 games.