Rhode Island Lottery
The modern form of the Rhode Island Lottery was inaugurated in 1974, following a constitutional amendment passed in 1973.
Rhode Island Lottery games include Mega Millions, Powerball, Wild Money, Keno, and scratch tickets.
Lotteries played an important role in Rhode Island from the colonial period until the mid-19th Century.
[2] It is a charter member of the Multi-State Lottery Association In June 2018, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed legislation permitting sports betting within the state, which is currently overseen and regulated by the Rhode Island Lottery, and run by William Hill.
[3] As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rhode Island Lottery began offering eInstant games (Similar to instant tickets but played entirely online on a computer or mobile device) and Keno as part of a new iLottery service in May 2020, which can be accessed from any mobile device or computer physically located within the state of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island, unusually, does not draw a three-digit number separately; however, players can choose "first three" or "last three".
Wild Money is drawn 7 days a week (previously was on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only before July 2020).
Rhode Island joined Mega Millions on January 31, 2010; it was part of the cross-sell expansion that took place on that date.
(Most U.S. lotteries with either Mega Millions or Powerball joined the other on that date; the agreement was finalized on October 13, 2009.)
Rhode Island's largest lottery prize was $336,400,000 (annuity value) for the February 11, 2012 drawing; the cash option was chosen.
It was replaced three years later by a regional game with a modified name: Lucky for Life (LFL), adding Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island.
On January 27, 2015, LFL became a "quasi-national game"; as of June 2021, it is offered in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
Like the game it replaced, this had a pick-4-of-50 number matrix, but didn't have a roll-down feature for its $25,000 top prize.
This game didn't even get through 2000 and was replaced by Money Roll, which brought back the roll-down feature albeit with a smaller number matrix.
Hot Trax was the Rhode Island Lottery's second monitor game after Keno and launched in 2004.
Played every 4 minutes, each game focused on an auto race which lasted 60 seconds, after which each car's finishing position would be listed, which offered multiple ways to win depending on the options used.
Rhody Poker launched in 2006 to replace Hot Trax as the Rhode Island Lottery's secondary monitor offering and cost $2 a "hand".
Roll Down launched in 1998 to replace MUSL's national Daily Millions game as an in-state offering.
Like most early lotteries, The Lot was offered weekly with each ticket containing a string of numbers which had to be matched at least somewhat to win prizes.
The first MUSL video lottery progressive, Cashola, began in July 2006; it ended when its 37th jackpot was won, on May 15, 2011.
The Rhode Island Lottery offered Daily Millions, MUSL's secondary jackpot game to Powerball, in 1996 to replace the in-state Rhody Cash.
