Kentucky Lottery starts new 'Double Up Cash' game this weekend
Posted: 3/30/2005 7:40:35 AM
The Kentucky Lottery will begin selling tickets Sunday for a new computerized game, Double Up Cash, that offers players a chance to double nonjackpot prizes if they correctly pick "heads" or "tails."
Numbers for the game will be chosen nightly, Monday through Saturday. Tickets cost $1, and the prize payouts range from a free-play ticket to a minimum jackpot of $40,000.
The jackpot will increase by $10,000 for every night it isn't hit, up to a maximum of $500,000, said lottery spokesman Chip Polston.
Players try to match five numbers from a 36-number matrix. The odds of doing that are 1 in 376,992, Polston said. The odds of winning a prize are about 1 in 8, he said.
Players fill out slips picking five numbers and then check either heads or tails at the bottom of the slip. They can make the choices themselves or have the computer make random selections.
The prize for matching two of the 36 numbers is the free play; matching three numbers, $5; and matching four numbers, $50.
If, however, a player has correctly checked heads or tails, which is selected at random by computer, the prize will be $2 for matching two of the 36 numbers, $10 for matching three numbers and $100 for matching four numbers.
Hitting the correct heads or tails will not double the jackpot if all five numbers are matched, Polston said.
Lottery corporation President Arch Gleason said that, with "the chance to double some of the prizes and the rolling jackpot, this game will serve as a great complement to our other online games."
The lottery's other computer-based games include Pick 3, Pick 4, Kentucky Cash Ball, Tic Tac Cash, and the multistate games Lotto South and Powerball.
Source: Lottery Post Staff
