We’ve added some additional details on our website and mobile app to help show exactly how the jackpots work in our Progressive InstaPlay games.
The information for each Progressive InstaPlay game now includes the game’s starting jackpot amount AND the amount that jackpot grows with each ticket sold statewide in the game.
There are currently 9 Progressive InstaPlay games available in Iowa. And as any new Progressive games are added in the future, we’ll continue to make sure the jackpot-growth details are available.
Why They’re Called Progressive
The jackpots in Progressive InstaPlay games have set starting amounts and increase with each ticket sold statewide until they’re won. The jackpot then resets to the starting amount and begins to grow again.
InstaPlay games have similarities to scratch games, but their plays are left in electronic form rather than being pre-printed into a supply of tickets.
An electronic file of plays exists for an InstaPlay game, and winners are randomly distributed within that file. When you buy an InstaPlay ticket at a lottery terminal or self-service kiosk, you get the next available play from the top of the file.
Some jackpots won in a Progressive InstaPlay game will be larger, based upon where the particular jackpot-winning ticket falls within the file, and some will be smaller, for that same reason.
No one – not even those of us who work at the lottery – knows where the next big winner will hit.
And as with any of our games, the jackpot is just one of the prize levels available in an InstaPlay game. Some of the money spent on tickets in the games goes to pay the jackpot, and some goes to pay the other prizes.
The Jackpot Details, All In One Place
While the jackpot details are on our website and mobile app for each Progressive InstaPlay game, I’m providing them here so you’ll have them all in one place:
- In the $30 Blank Check Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $50,000 and grows by $3 with each ticket sold statewide until it is won.
- In the $30 Super 7s Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $50,000 and grows by $3 with each ticket sold statewide.
- In the $20 Xtreme Multiplier Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $20,000 and grows by $2 with each ticket sold.
- In the $20 Extreme Green Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $20,000 and grows by $2 with each ticket sold.
- In the $10 Hot Ticket Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $10,000 and grows by $1 with each ticket sold.
- In the $5 Big Money Doubler Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $5,000 and grows by 35 cents with each ticket sold.
- In the $5 MONOPOLY™ Game Tokens Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $5,000 and grows by 35 cents with each ticket sold.
- In the $2 Fat Wallet Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $2,000 and grows by 15 cents with each ticket sold.
- In the $1 Cash on the Run Progressive game, the jackpot starts at $650 and grows by 8 cents with each ticket sold.
Those amounts are programmed into the prize structure of the game itself, and the lottery does not adjust the prize structure once it has been implemented.
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Posted by: Grace scott | February 24, 2025 at 07:26 AM