The main lottery games in the Maryland Lottery are Pick 3, Pick 4, Bonus Match 5, Multi-Match, Mega Millions, and Powerball. You can find out whether you have a maryland lottery winning number by checking mdlottery.com, the lottery’s Web site.
Maryland’s lottery also offers Racetrax, scratch-offs, and keno games. The lottery began in 1973, and since then, it evolved from generating $41 million in annual sales to become an enterprise worth more than a billion dollars.
To play any Maryland Lottery game, a player has to be at least eighteen years old. A player tries to get the Maryland Lottery winning number for the Mega Millions game by choosing five different numbers from 1 to 56 and one more number from 1 to 46. Using a feature called Quick Pick, you can let the terminal randomly determine your numbers if that is what you would prefer.
The jackpot, which happens to be pari-mutuel, is won by a player who matches the Maryland Lottery winning number drawn for Mega Millions on a particular Tuesday or Friday night. Those who match only some of the six numbers as shown in the Mega Millions prize structure win non-jackpot prizes. Maryland uses the Megaplier option for the game; this option multiplies non-jackpot prizes by two, three, or four.
Powerball, which is played in more than forty other states aside from Maryland, involves matching five numbers from 1 to 59 and the Powerball number from 1 to 39. Powerball numbers are drawn every Wednesday and Saturday night. If you pick all or some of the numbers forming the Maryland Lottery winning number for Powerball, then you get a prize that corresponds to Powerball’s prize structure.
Multi-Match is the Maryland Lottery’s lotto-style game where players each play eighteen numbers. In playing a Multi-Match game, you get to select the first line of six numbers then automatically receive two more lines of six random numbers. You can match the game’s Maryland Lottery winning number (drawn during Monday and Thursday nights) in four ways; you have one chance per line plus a fourth chance by combining the matches in all three lines.
Nightly draws for the Bonus Match 5 games will pick five winning numbers from 1 to 39. A bonus ball is then drawn from the remaining numbers to provide additional chances of winning.
At most Maryland Lottery retailers, you can play Pick 3 and Pick 4 with bet types that include straight, box, and straight & box. Front pair, back pair, and combination are bet types for Pick 3 games only. For each of these two games, a Maryland Lottery winning number is drawn at midday and evening every day.
