| Minnesota Lottery has a really great game called | | | | and you'll see what I mean. |
| Northstar Cash. It's great for two reasons; one, it | | | | Look at it another way. If you were to buy just |
| draws every evening, meaning that dedicated | | | | one ticket for each of these two lottery games, |
| lotto players can get their fix and, more | | | | you would be about 1147 times more likely to win |
| importantly, two, it offers amazing odds of | | | | the jackpot on the Northstar Cash ticket. That's |
| winning the jackpot. | | | | quite an amazing stat, if you ask me! |
| Now, when I say the odds of winning the jackpot | | | | Now, the Northstar game doesn't offer jackpots |
| are amazing, I don't mean that everybody that | | | | that are quite as large as Powerball, but the size |
| plays the game will win the jackpot. Rather, the | | | | of the jackpot isn't the main feature of the game |
| odds, relative to other lotto games, are amazing. | | | | - it is the odds. However, the prizes in Northstar |
| In the Northstar Cash game, to win the jackpot, | | | | Cash are not too bad at all. The jackpots start at |
| you must match 5 numbers from 1 to 31. The | | | | $25,000 and grow if nobody wins it. And, because |
| odds of matching all five numbers and winning the | | | | the draws are every night, the size of the |
| jackpot are approximately 1-in-170,000. From the | | | | jackpot could grow rather quickly. If you live in |
| looks of it, those odds may not look so good, but | | | | Minnesota, you might want to consider playing |
| they are. Compare it to the odds of winning the | | | | Northstar Cash rather than some of the other |
| Powerball jackpot, at approximately 1-in-195-million, | | | | games. |