Scratch-offs | Hoosier Lottery (2025)

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In fact, you can't win $16, you'll either lose $1 or win $100. The $16 is what you'd expect to win per bet on average if you kept playing repeatedly. Lottery wins are so rare that this long-run average can never realistically be achieved. Second, money loses value as you keep amassing more.

Please make sure to sign and complete the back of your ticket. For Scratch-off games you have 180 days from the game end date to claim your prize. For Draw games you have 180 days from the drawing date to claim your prize.

The largest Hoosier Lotto jackpot win occurred on Nov. 7, 2007, and was worth an estimated $54.5 million. The last Hoosier Lotto jackpot win occurred on Sept. 7, 2022, and was worth an estimated $19.5 million.

Is there a time limit on claiming Lotto scratchcards? Scratchcard prizes must be claimed within 180 days from the closure date, reports The National Lottery - you can check the closure date for your scratchcard here.

A winner is given the opportunity to choose the cash value of their jackpot prize within 60 days following their approved claim. The payment option you choose will apply to all claimants in a multiple ownership claim. In addition, certain Scratchers games also offer an annuitized grand prize.

Prizes may be paid out as an annuity with payments or as a lump sum cash payment equivalent to the present value of the annuity payments as estimated by the Hoosier Lottery during the claims process.

For the first time a Hoosier Lottery Cash4Life® ticket in Indiana matched all five numbers to win $1,000 per week for life. Cash4Life tickets should be checked carefully as one entry matched five out of five numbers in the April 4 drawing.

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The Hoosier Lotto's second-largest jackpot ever was claimed by the winner who bought their ticket at Lucky's Mart, LLC, at 5208 W. 10th St. in Speedway. The winner, who claimed the prize Lucky 22 Enterprises, LLC., is a longtime resident in west Indianapolis who has been playing the lottery for more than 30 years.

Since its first drawing in 1992, Powerball has inspired the country with a chance to become a millionaire, while raising $25 billion for good causes supported by lotteries. Indiana had the very first Powerball jackpot winner in 1992 and leads the nation in Powerball jackpot wins with 39.

The luckiest state in the U.S. is Minnesota, with 22 big lottery winners and a life expectancy of 81 years. The least lucky state in the U.S. is Mississippi, with 0 big lottery winners and a life expectancy of only 74 years. The state with the most lottery winners is New York with 50 total winners.

Durwin Hickman, who works as a skycap at a Bay Area airport, bought a $30 Set For Life! Scratchers ticket while on his lunch break and uncovered the word "LIFE" to win the top prize of $20 million, the lottery said. "It was the biggest rush I have had in my life," Hickman told the California Lottery.

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