Hoosier Lottery

The Hoosier Lottery is based in the state capital of Indianapolis, with regional offices in Mishawaka and Evansville.

Indiana was among those states participating in the short-lived multi-state draw game Monopoly Millionaires' Club from October 19 to December 26, 2014.

In early American history, legislators commonly established lotteries to fund schools, roads, and other public works.

[1] The government of the Indiana Territory in 1807 chartered Vincennes University, authorizing it to raise up to $20,000 in a lottery, to provide for a library and other facilities.

[2] Vincennes University moved to revive its lottery in 1879, arguing successfully in a test case before the Indiana Supreme Court that, under the Contracts Clause, the lottery provision of the 1807 charter could not be revoked, even by a constitutional ban.

[7][8] The U.S. Supreme Court soon rejected a similar argument in Stone v. Mississippi,[9] but Vincennes was able to run its lottery as a policy game, contracted out to a group of experienced lottery operators from Kentucky,[10] for over a year before it was ruled unlawful in 1883.

[12][13] Indiana legislators authorized the state lottery, along with parimutuel betting on horse racing, in May 1989.

Retired steel worker Peter Gilbert of East Chicago, Indiana chose the cash option of $40.4 million rather than the 30 annual payments.

Adding the superball feature gives players an extra number to increase their chances of winning a prize.

Players can also win multiple superball prizes in the same game depending upon their numbers and their play type.

The odds of winning superball prizes are varied based on the numbers chosen and the play type.

(The game also is available in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.)

Live drawings are held on Monday and Thursday evenings at 9pm Eastern Time on Livestream.

Powerball's jackpots currently start at $20 million; it is drawn Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights.

For each Mix & Match ticket, players received three lines of five numbers each; one play cost $2.