Popular draw game falls in line with Numbers Game
Update: Midday drawing launch delayed
By Kate Northrop
On Monday, the Massachusetts Lottery announced that it will be adding a second daily Mass Cash drawing starting later this month.
In less than a week, the Massachusetts Lottery's Mass Cash draw game will get a second daily drawing.
Currently, the Lottery offers one daily Mass Cash drawing at 9:00 p.m. EST. Beginning Sunday, July 20, the game will operate with a new 2:00 p.m. midday drawing.
The game will continue its current number matrix consisting of 5 numbers chosen out of a pool of 35 numbers.
"Introducing a midday drawing takes Mass Cash to a new level, giving players more chances to win and more opportunities to enjoy the game," Lottery Executive Director Mark William Bracken said in a press release.
The change synchronizes Mass Cash drawings with those for Numbers Game, one of the other local draw games available in Massachusetts, which already offers two drawings at 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. every day.
Mass Cash originally launched in 1991 with two drawings per week and was given a third weekly drawing in 2009 as a result of high interest and demand from players, according to the Lottery. Then, the schedule was adjusted to a daily draw format in 2011. The addition of the second daily drawing is the first change to the draw schedule since then.
The odds of matching all five numbers in Mass Cash are 1 in 324,632. A full list of odds and corresponding prizes can be viewed on the Prizes and Odds page.
Mass Cash drawings can be viewed online on the Lottery's official YouTube channel and Facebook page. Results are available on Lottery Post's Massachusetts Lottery Results page. Each play costs $1.
Update July 20
On Saturday, July 19, the Massachusetts Lottery announced that the scheduled launch of the additional Mass Cash drawing on Sunday, July 20 would be delayed "due to a system delay." The new drawing originally set for 2:00 p.m. EST on July 20 did not occur.
The Lottery advised that a new launch date for the Mass Cash midday drawing will be announced at a later time.
The Mass Cash evening drawings at 9:00 p.m. EST will not be affected.
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Used to play this one and Megabucks years ago with Season tickets. For some unknown reason, MA State lottery, now with two Dorchester offices switched to a Georgia outfit to handle Season tickets. Come Feb 2024 they completely did away with Season tickets and just prior to that they made it so residents could not purchase Season ticket @ retailers---I used to have friends get mine and mail them to me. It was MUCH cheaper that way. I apologize for going off subject!
Glad that this is not an RNG game...oops that might trigger somebody there to do just that!
Now just to get on line ticket purchases!!
This really sucks for loyal Mass Cash players. What's going to happen is exactly the same thing that happened with Florida Fantasy5 when the Florida Lottery added an additional Fantasy5 drawing each day in March of 2023.
The mid-day Mass Cash drawing will have a low jackpot amount, and the evening drawing will have a somewhat larger but still reduced jackpot amount due to ticket sales for the mid-day drawing siphoning off money that formerly went to the evening drawing.
Most players are asleep during the sales window for the mid-day drawing because it starts at 11 PM and it closes just prior to the mid-day drawing. So for a large portion of the sales window for the mid-day drawing no tickets are being sold.
For the evening drawing, although the sales window is adequate in terms of how long the window is open, ticket sales for the new mid-day drawing reduced the amount of money that used to go towards the evening draw.
Net result of The Mass Lottery doing this is lower jackpot amounts for both drawings. G5
Except that there is no jackpot involved in this game. It will continue to pay the same prize levels as it always has no matter if you play in the afternoon or evening. 5-35 pays 100k no matter when you hit it. The mid day drawing is at 2 PM. Not that many will play it compared to the night drawing but not because they will be asleep.
Season tickets was probably to much work for the lottery workers so they canceled it lol
They have made a total mess of this Mass Cash 2nd drawing rollout. The Ma. lottery is usually quite efficient. I wondered immediately about both the season tickets (which they no longer sell I believe but there had to be some that had them with time left on them). I also wondered why they didn't print new play slips in advance of this. They canceled the rollout but now you cannot advance play even for 2 days which many like to do in this game because it is nightly now. You have to go in every day if you want to play it every day now and probably for months. They have to go around and adjust every machine to reflect both the daily and nightly draw for this game. The store owners cannot do this apparently. They need to print new slips, fix the vending machines that sell the tickets also.