HELENA, Mt. — The Montana Lottery is introducing a new keno-like game called 10 Spot. Lottery officials say the new game, featuring two daily drawings, will be available Monday.
Players choose 10 numbers out of 80 for each drawing. Each play costs $1 and multi-play tickets are available.
Twice each day, the Montana Lottery will draw 20 numbers. Players who match 10 of the 20 numbers will win the top prize of $25,000. Those who match nine will win $2,500. There are also prizes for matching eight, seven, six and five, and a $2 payout if a player doesn't match any numbers.
The drawings are held at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. each day.
The winning numbers will be posted on Lottery Post's Montana Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/mt) within minutes of each drawing.
that's like ten-oh in Ohio
Only $25,000 for matching 10? I hope that was a typo.
How can you get a 2.00 winner if you don't match any numbers?..I'm lost..
Because it's more likely to hit 5 numbers than not hit any at all. It's just pretty much a "we feel sorry for you" payout.
Montana 10 spot keno
Catch probability odds-to-1 against payout
0 0.0458 20.8385 2
1 0.1796 4.5688
2 0.2953 2.3869
3 0.2674 2.7397
4 0.1473 5.7880
5 0.0514 18.4448 4
6 0.0115 86.1126 14
7 0.001611 619.68 50
8 0.000135 7383.47 225
9 0.00000612 163,380 2,500
10 1.1221e-007 8,911,711 25,000
Overall odds of winning - 1:16.9
For comparison, Ohio's lottery payouts for a 10 spot keno game and ten-oh are:
Keno - $1 Wager
Catch Payout
0 5
1 0
2 0
3 0
4 0
5 2
6 10
7 50
8 500
9 5,000
10 100,000
Ten-oh
Catch Payout
0 3
1 0
2 0
3 0
4 0
5 2
6 5
7 40
8 400
9 6,000
10 500,000
In Keno, it's as hard to match nothing as it is to match four or more of the winning numbers.
You get paid for matching nothing? I'm an expert at that! I'm movin' to Montana! I'll be a millionaire in no time!
That's even weaker than Texas' Cash 5. The odds are WAY out of line for that kind of money.
Those payouts for this game in Montana are way out of line.
I wonder who came up with them. Don't play the game Montana players.
You are getting totally robbed!
Unfortunately, it's not a typo. It really is just a horrible payout.
Despite all the negative comments, the game payout percentage on Montana's game is higher than that of Ohio's, due to Montana's higher payouts for hitting 6 and 7. The Ohio game payout percentage is 50.91%, Montana's is 58.71%.
i think... KENO whit a good system and patience its easy to won maybe easy that a PICK6 GAME.. are a ot of sytem.. already i am working in this.. in KENO OF MY COUNTRY. the pay out are cool
THE SYSTEM that i am using is... play just EVEN numbers... or play CUATRIPLETS NUMBERS its mean the MOST COMMON 4 numbers
THE PAY OUT OF MY COUNTRY ARE THE NEXT
0....$2.5 USD
5....$2 USD
6.....$9 USD
7.....$30
8.....$300
9.....$4,500
10.....$750,000
i think the pay out for 10 numbers are one of the most HIGHER of the world