Hot Lotto
Hot Lotto is a lottery game that is administered by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) which also happens to be the organisation responsible for the Powerball lottery. Like the Powerball, Hot Lotto games take place twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The task for players of Hot Lotto is to select five main numbers from the range 1 to 39 and one ‘Hot Ball’ number from the range 1 to 19. If a Hot Lotto player matches all six of those numbers then they win the Hot Lotto jackpot or, if there is more than one winner, an equal share of it. If no player wins the jackpot then it rolls over to the next Hot Lotto game.
The latest Hot Lotto result is given below, but to see past results and a statistical analysis please look at any of the State results that play Hot Lotto such as the District of Columbia Results page.
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The minimum Hot Lotto jackpot is $1,000,000, but there are nine prize levels in all, so you don’t necessarily have to match all six of your selections to win a Hot Lotto prize worth celebrating. Details of the nine Hot Lotto prize levels and the odds of winning in each case are shown in the table below:
Numbers Matched |
Odds of Winning |
Prize |
5 main numbers + Hot Ball |
1 in 10,939,383 |
Jackpot |
5 main numbers |
1 in 607,744 |
$10,000 |
4 main numbers + Hot Ball |
1 in 64,349 |
$500 |
4 main numbers |
1 in 3,575 |
$50 |
3 main numbers + Hot Ball |
1 in 1,950 |
$50 |
3 main numbers |
1 in 108 |
$4 |
2 main numbers + Hot Ball |
1 in 183 |
$4 |
1 main number + Hot Ball |
1 in 47 |
$3 |
Hot Ball only |
1 in 39 |
$2 |
The odds of winning any Hot Lotto prize at all are around 1 in 16, so Hot Lotto players don’t need a vast amount of luck to make a profit from the game. Players who want to increase the value of any non-jackpot prize that they manage to win can do so by paying a little extra to play the Hot Lotto Sizzler option. This triples the value of any non-jackpot prize that is won, so a Hot Lotto player who matches five main numbers with the Hot Lotto Sizzler option in play would win $30,000 instead of the usual $10,000.
