Player Question: What Determines The Next Winner In An InstaPlay Game?

A player who reached out to us about our InstaPlay games had a question you may have wondered about as well: What determines when the next winner will hit in one of the games?

InstaPlay games in many ways are scratch games left in electronic form. Rather than printing hard-copy tickets in advance, lottery terminals around the state instead print out the next available play when someone purchases a ticket in that particular InstaPlay game.

You as the InstaPlay player are getting the next available play in the game, and winning tickets are randomly distributed throughout the supply of tickets in an InstaPlay game just like they are in a scratch game.

So, we never know when or where the next big winner will hit – it’s all random. It may be in a small town, or it may be right where you are.

Comments

[Mary Neubauer]

Hi, Daniel. Winning tickets -- including jackpot-winning tickets -- are randomly distributed throughout an InstaPlay game just as they are in a scratch game. Players receive the next available electronic play in an InstaPlay game when they buy a ticket. The next available play might be a nonwinner or it might win a prize, even the jackpot.

[daniel a king]

That's not really a good explanation. The big difference is scratch tickets are all printed before they go on sale,so the big winners are alredy in there.Insta tickets are printed when they are bought. What trigers the jackpot ticket to be printed?

[Kevin Schultz]

I see in todays paper that Mr. Tipton (rigged lottery games) is now suing the state for blah, blah, blah...glad to see he is behind bars...hope he stays there for quite awhile....