Playing the Illinois Lottery
By JC Davis
You will never run out of new games to play with the Illinois state lottery. The IL provides players with a variety of options in the way of drawing and instant-win games, including the popular multi-state Mega Millions Lottery. The Mega Millions offers the biggest payout of any Illinois games, ranging anywhere from two to several hundred million dollars. The Illinois Lotto game offers slightly smaller payouts, with the base jackpot being two million dollars.
The Illinois Lotto holds drawings three times a week, and it costs one dollar to play two games. To win, you have to pick six different numbers between one and fifty-two. You can pick these Illinois numbers yourself, or you can ask for a Quick Pick where the computer will pick them for you randomly. When you purchase a ticket, you must specify whether you want it for the Monday, Wednesday or Saturday drawing. You can find an Illinois result on television, in the newspaper or on the IL website.
Illinois also has several lower prize drawing games, including Pick Three and Pick Four, with jackpots of five hundred dollars and Numbers Now, where you can win up to five thousand dollars extra when you play Pick Three and Pick four. The Pick Three and Four games cost fifty cents each to play, and adding the Numbers Now game is an additional one dollar.
In addition to the drawing games, the Illinois also has a variety of instant win scratch-off games available. It can cost anywhere from one to twenty dollars for these games depending on the odds of winning and on the amount of the grand prize. There are twenty-four different scratch-off games available from the Illinois state lottery, and if you have a winning Illinois result you can
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The Illinois also offers a "Set for Life game. The player must submit $30.00 worth of non-winning tickets for an annual drawing. This is also called the "Second Chance". This is a good way to turn non-winning tickets into cash. Prizes are $100,000.00 for life, the cash equivalent of a new car lease for life, or, a luxury vacation for life. The Illinois lotto offers players a chance to win from 2 to 3 million dollars and costs $1.00 for 2 games. Illinois participates with several other states in the Mega Millions lottery. Money from the Illinois goes to winners, education, and a very small amount goes to vendors.
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