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While all the talk seems to be around the huge Mega Millions jackpot for tonight's drawing, there is some lottery action down in Arkansas that players should be excited about too!
Natural State Jackpot soars
One of those in-state draw games with a big jackpot is Natural State Jackpot, which is at $440,000 for Saturday's drawing. It is not the largest jackpot ever for the game, but still, a very nice chunk of change for someone to win!
Natural State Jackpot is a draw game exclusive to Arkansas. The drawings take place every night at 8 p.m. CT. The tickets cost $1 per play and ticket sales cut off at 7:59 p.m. CT.
The daily drawings are a new aspect for Natural State Jackpot. The Arkansas Lottery introduced the daily drawings in April 2024 to produce higher, faster-growing jackpots and it definitely seems to be working.
The Natural State Jackpot jackpot starts out at $50,000 and increases by $5,000 for every draw until it reaches $100,000. After it reaches that point without a winner, it will increase by $10,000 with each draw.
LOTTO jackpot keeps breaking records
The other jackpot making waves in Arkansas is the in-state draw game LOTTO. The jackpot for tomorrow night's (Saturday, August 24) drawing is $3.17 million, which happens to be the game's highest jackpot since it launched in September 2022.
LOTTO is an in-state draw game that is played and won exclusively in Arkansas. The last winner for LOTTO came on Wednesday, September 13, 2023! The jackpot reset to $250,000 for the Saturday, September 16, 2023, drawing and has been growing ever since.
While the winner of this current jackpot run for LOTTO will claim the largest jackpot ever for the game, the previous highest jackpot was $2.34 million. That winner came from Sebastian County and won their jackpot prize in May 2023.
The drawings for LOTTO take place every week on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. CT. For each drawing, six winning numbers between 1 and 40, as well as a bonus number, are selected. To win the LOTTO jackpot, a player must match all of the first six numbers drawn in any order.
Besides winning the jackpot, there are seven other prize levels for players to win when matching three or more of the winning numbers, with or without the bonus number. These alternate prizes range from $2 up to $25,000.
Tickets for LOTTO cost $2 per play, and ticket sales cut off at 8:59 p.m. CT on the night of the drawing.
If someone happens to win the huge LOTTO jackpot this weekend, it would reset to $250,000 and increases with ticket sales for the next drawing. If there happened to be more than one jackpot-winning ticket sold this weekend, the jackpot is split evenly among those winners.
Lucky winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize.
Enjoy playing the Arkansas Lottery, and please remember to play responsibly.
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