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Tri-State Lottery

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Prior to the Tri-State compact, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont individually operated online games, including pick-3 and pick-4 games. Maine currently offers a poker-style game that is drawn every few minutes.
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in July 2009, doubling the cost of a ticket to $ 2. In the late 2010s, Megabucks Plus switched back to the name Megabucks. Megabucks is a double-matrix game like
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Tri-State drawings are held in New Hampshire. These drawings use "classic" numbered balls and drawing machines, except for raffles.
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Tri-State games are not directly part of MUSL. The Iowa-based organization assists with multi-jurisdictional games.
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became a "quasi-national" game in January 2015; as of September 2017 it was available in 24 states and the
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draws 5 of 39 numbers; the top prize is $ 100,000 split among plays matching all five numbers.
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Maine (a MUSL member from 1990 to 1992) returned to MUSL in 2004. All three lotteries offer
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lotteries. It was the first multi-jurisdictional lottery. Its first multi-state game (
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debuted on November 12, 2017. New Hampshire joined Lotto America in January 2018).
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New Hampshire and Vermont allow subscription play for
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The Tri-State lottery corporation is not part of the
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is the terminal-generated game series offered by the
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