Wyoming Lottery to start its first in-state game in March

Comment #17

cbr$ — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:27:00 GMT

This sound really good for the Wyoming players , saying it a national game , all proceeds are going to retained in Wyoming fine. Let's face reality. As soon as your Jackpot is high enough, expect people coming across your state line to buy some. People traveling through your state will buy them too.

Comment #16

Scratch$ — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:40:51 GMT

Wyoming has the smallest population of any state in the country and their lottery is brand new, so they don't have a large player base to build big jackpots quickly. They're probably charging $5 a ticket in hopes of building a good-sized jackpot faster.

Comment #15

CDanaT — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:09:15 GMT

I hope they have success with this new game......but I have reservations.... Good luck Wyoming players

Comment #14

adulane62 — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:55:25 GMT

Wyoming Lottery is a failure, even before it sells its first ticket. $5 for a 250k jackpot? it doesn't matter if it rolls to a million jackpot, that is way to much. Thanks but no thanks

Comment #13

myturn — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:22:39 GMT

The Wyoming Lottery will allow winners to remain anonymous.

If I win a lottery, can I remain anonymous?

We will honor requests for anonymity from winners. However, we certainly ho.pe winners will allow us to share their names and good news with other players.

Wyoming Lottery - FAQ

Comment #12

Scratch$ — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:22:32 GMT

The Wyoming lottery isn't allowed by law to sell scratchers. Ludicrous! Some state lotteries derive about 60% of their gross income from scratchers, and they're enormously popular with the players. Swing and a miss for the Wyoming legislature

Comment #11

Scratch$ — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:16:02 GMT

Monopoly Millionaires Club charged $5 a ticket, and that game crashed and burned quickly. A lot of people just won't pay that much for a single ticket, myself included.

Comment #10

DoctorWhy — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:01:34 GMT

My thoughts too

Comment #9

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:18:53 GMT

They must be really proud of this game to charge $5 a tic even if it is for 2 lines. But that is the direction lotteries are going with new games. They can't sell more tickets, so they charge more per ticket to make more revenue.

Comment #8

dallascowboyfan — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:08:47 GMT

This is the kind of game I wish Oklahoma Lottery had.

Comment #7

Ron5995 — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:44:23 GMT

Not sure the exact odds, but a 5/45 game has odds of worse than 1 in 1 million of winning the jackpot, and odds of 2nd place is 1 in several thousand. For comparison, many Cash 5 games are 5/43, which are difficult as it is to hit. I'm surprised such a low population state would go with a 5/45 game, especially at a $5 price-point; $2.50 per play, since each ticket contains 2 sets of numbers - still a lot of money considering the lousy odds.

Overall payout of 68% is very good, but deceptive, s... [ More ]

Comment #6

rj6speed — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:04:34 GMT

How many draws per week

Comment #5

ThatScaryChick — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:53:05 GMT

I guess 3, 4 and 5 dollar tickets are going to start becoming the norm for draw games.

Comment #4

wizeguy — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:46:06 GMT

Will it be ball draw or RNG? Good luck to all who play

Comment #3

hearsetrax — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:27:04 GMT

well I wish them all luck

Comment #2

Todd — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:54:06 GMT

As fun as any Pick 5 game with a rolling jackpot

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:41:30 GMT

68% payout sounds like a fair deal to me. The real question is, how much fun is it to play?.

Wyoming Lottery to start its first in-state game in March

Lottery Post — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:05:48 GMT

New game has generous 68 percent payout

By Todd Northrop

The United States' newest lottery, Wyoming, is set to begin its first in-state lottery game in two months.

Cowboy Draw is a Pick 5 rolling jackpot game the gives Wyoming lottery players much better odds than the multi-state games that are available in the state.

Being a Wyoming-specific game means more Wyoming players winning top jackpot prizes and more Lottery money staying in the Cowboy State, said Jon Clontz, CEO of the Wyo... [ More ]