Category Archives: Lottery News

Lottery to Reveal Maryland Treasures Artwork on Saturday at Maryland Home + Garden Show

March 4, 2026
Four Maryland artists created images to be featured on upcoming scratch-off ticket Four talented local residents will hold an art exhibition with a Maryland Lottery twist in a special event on March 7 at the Maryland Home + Garden Show in Timonium. Join us for the first public showing of the artwork that will be [...]
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Lottery Offers Information, Education for Problem Gambling Awareness Month

March 2, 2026
Play Responsibly is not just a slogan. Maryland Lottery and Gaming puts an emphasis on responsible play at all times, but the effort is elevated in March for Problem Gambling Awareness Month. Throughout March, the Lottery will run a paid advertising campaign focused on responsible play and helping players tell the difference between truths and [...]

Final Cash4Life Drawing Scheduled For February 21

February 2, 2026
The multi-state game Cash4Life is being retired, with its final drawing scheduled for Feb. 21, 2026. Cash4Life tickets will no longer be available after 8:45 p.m. on that date. Cash4Life is being discontinued and is merging with a similar game called Lucky For Life. The new game, called Millionaire For Life, will not be available [...]

Harlem Globetrotters Scratch-off Offers Chance to Sit on the Bench with the Team

December 5, 2025
Four new Maryland Lottery scratch-offs hit stores today (Dec. 5), highlighted by a $2 Harlem Globetrotters ticket with a second-chance component awarding 31 winners exciting courtside experiences at a Harlem Globetrotters game. The ticket also has offers six instant top prizes of $10,000. The Maryland Lottery, in partnership with lottery vendor EQL Games, is the [...]

Lottery Offers Reminder to ‘Gift Responsibly’ This Holiday Season

December 2, 2025
Annual campaign expands to include ‘Too Young to Bet’ message As holiday-season festivities get underway and you’re shopping for the family and friends on your list, the Maryland Lottery encourages you to play and gift responsibly and remember that Lottery tickets are not an appropriate gift for children. Maryland Lottery and Gaming is once again [...]

The Week in Winners: Five Mega Millions Players Win Five-Digit Prizes as Mega Millions Jackpot Roll Ends

November 17, 2025
While a player in Georgia won the $980 Million Mega Millions jackpot on Nov. 14, the game’s two drawings last week delivered five big prizes for players in Maryland: two wins of $30,000 each in Bryans Road and Towson, and three $20,000 prizes on tickets sold in District Heights, Elkridge and Temple Hills. Meanwhile, as [...]

Holiday Scratch-offs Return with Popular Cash and Dash Shopping Spree Prize

October 17, 2025
The holiday season will be here before you know it, and the Maryland Lottery is celebrating today with the launch of six new scratch-offs and the return of our Holiday second-chance promotion. For the first time since 2020, the second-chance promotion offers the chance to win a Cash and Dash Shopping Spree in Chicago. Six [...]

JURASSIC PARK Scratch-Off Highlight of New Maryland Lottery Games

September 19, 2025
Four new Maryland Lottery scratch-off tickets go on sale Sept. 19, highlighted by a $5 JURASSIC PARK ticket with a second-chance component that gives players a chance to win a trip to Hawaii and chance to win up to $1 million while there. The JURASSIC PARK game has a top prize of $50,000. Non-winning JURASSIC [...]

September Lottery Events Filled with Fun, Music and Football

September 11, 2025
Fall is almost here and the Maryland Lottery has a full slate of events on hand for the rest of September. You’ll find us in Baltimore City, along with Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Prince George’s counties. We kick off this weekend on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Westminster for the annual Maryland Wine Festival. We’ll be [...]

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $1.4 Billion for Tonight’s Drawing

September 3, 2025
Powerball fever is in the air and Marylanders can purchase a ticket for tonight’s drawing until 9:59 p.m. This morning, the jackpot bumped up to an estimated annuity value of $1.4 billion with an estimated cash option of $634.3 million. This is the fourth-largest jackpot since the inception of Powerball in 1992, and the sixth-largest [...]

Videos Raise Awareness of Responsible Gambling Issues and Resources in Maryland

September 2, 2025
A collaborative effort by Maryland Lottery and Gaming and two other state agencies has produced a set of informational videos that spotlight responsible gambling and the related resources available to Maryland residents. The videos arrive just in time for Responsible Gaming Education Month, a campaign sponsored each September by the American Gaming Association that aims [...]

Ravens Scratch-offs Return; New Unlock the Cash Promotion Launches

August 22, 2025
The start of football season is always exciting, and for the 17th year in a row, the Maryland Lottery is offering Ravens scratch-offs and the chance to win Ravens-themed experiential prizes. Two Ravens scratch-offs hit Lottery retailers today. The $2 Ravens X2 ticket has five top prizes of $20,000. The $10 Ravens X10 instant ticket [...]

Lottery, Casinos, Sports Wagering Contribute $1.589 Billion to the State in FY2025

August 8, 2025
The Maryland Lottery and the state’s casinos, sportsbooks and daily fantasy sports operators combined to deliver $1.589 billion in contributions to state programs and services in Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025). Casino gaming contributions to the state were $831.3 million; Lottery profits were $667.2 million; and sports wagering and daily [...]

Multi-Match Free Gas Promotion, Five New Scratch-offs Launch

July 18, 2025
Maryland Lottery offers new chances to win with a Multi-Match promotion in cooperation with High’s where second chance players can score $1,500 in gift cards from the convenience store chain, and five new scratch-off games made their debut this week: CA$H, Cash Scratch Fever, Gold Bar Bingo, Double Your Money and All About Cash. In [...]

Lottery and Gaming Commission Selects Intralot for Lottery System Contract

July 15, 2025

The Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission (the Commission) today approved the recommendation of an award for a new Lottery Central Monitoring and Control System (LCMCS) contract to Intralot, Inc., of Duluth, Ga. The vendor that is awarded the contract manufactures the counter terminals and self-service vending machines that sell tickets at 4,300 Maryland Lottery […]