The
Minnesota and Iowa state lotteries have teamed up to bring lottery-loving
punters a new game that can make a winner out of even the most die-hard of
lottery losers.
The new
"All or Nothing" ticket will make its debut on Tuesday, with a top
prize of $100,000, and the biggest winners in the game will be those who
successfully match all the winning numbers and those who fail to match any at
all.
Tickets
will cost $1 and there will be two drawings each day. To win the game players
will need to correctly pick all 12 of the numbers, drawn from a pool of 24
numbers, or fail to pick any of them at all.
Despite the
name of the game players will not need to get all or nothing to win a prize. Players who match 11 of the 12 number will
win $1,000. Players who match just one ball will also receive a $1,000
payout. The prize amount then gradually
shrinks with each extra number and the only losers in the game will be those
who correctly match five, six, or seven numbers.
"This
is a fun concept that definitely tweaks the traditional lottery drawing,"
stated Ed Van Patten, executive director of the Minnesota State Lottery.
But Terry
Rich (Van Patten’s counterpart in Iowa) probably put it best when he said, "If
you never match anything in lottery drawings, have we got a game for you."
Daily
drawings for the new game will be at 12:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
