How To Enter Our Latest Promotion

I just blogged on Friday to answer a player’s question about where to find the inside scoop on our latest promotions. (Click here or just scroll down this page to read that post.)

Well, today I’ll go one better and just put right here the details about our new Hot Lotto Sizzler $100,000 Cash Blast promotion. It just started yesterday, and if you’re a Hot Lotto player, you could win up to $100,000!

The Hot Lotto Sizzler $100,000 Cash Blast promotion runs through March 4 and offers a top prize of $100,000. Forty Iowa Lottery players also will each win $500 prizes in the promotion.

Second-chance promotions are one of the top requests we get from lottery players and we know they’re an important chance for us to offer you added value for the tickets you buy. We’re happy to deliver what you’ve asked for with the Cash Blast promotion!

You can enter the promotion by buying a Hot Lotto Sizzler ticket of at least $4 by Feb. 28. To be eligible, your ticket must have at least two Hot Lotto Sizzler plays on it and the drawing dates involved can’t be later than Feb. 28. If your ticket doesn’t win a prize, you can visit the lottery Web site and enter the promotion by keying in the serial number from your ticket.

You have until noon on March 4 to enter the promotion. And you’ll need to keep all the tickets you enter, because tickets must be presented to the lottery to claim a prize. You can enter each ticket only once in the promotion.

Seven states including Iowa are participating in the Cash Blast promotion. On March 4, 40 winners of $500 prizes will be selected from each state. One overall winner of $100,000 also will be selected from all seven states’ qualifying entries.

If you aren’t familiar with the Hot Lotto game, it was designed as a smaller version of Powerball. Hot Lotto players choose five numbers from a pool of 39 and another number, called the Hot Ball, from a pool of 19. The Hot Lotto jackpot starts at $1 million and grows until someone wins it. Tickets in the game cost $1. Hot Lotto drawings are held at about 9:40 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, just before the Powerball drawings. The Hot Lotto Sizzler is a multiplier option that triples any prize won, except the jackpot. The Sizzler costs $1 extra per play.

The Hot Lotto jackpot was last won on Jan. 10 and it’s grown to an estimated $1.63 million for Wednesday’s drawing. Iowa Lottery players have won six jackpots in the game, and we hope to see another Iowa jackpot winner soon!