CONCORD — As you might expect, since the creation of the New Hampshire lottery there have been some considerable changes. Rather than single sweepstakes tickets, players can now buy a wide range of New Hampshire lottery tickets with nine different games available in the Granite State.
As a result, plenty of people tune in to find out New Hampshire lottery numbers, with the lottery even having its own online channel.
Of the games available in the state, the four main single state games don’t offer huge jackpots, but are certainly well worth playing, with Pick 3 and Pick 4 options. However, it’s all about the multi-state games available to New Hampshire Lottery players.
As well as New Hampshire Powerball and Mega Millions, there are also three Tri-State lotteries. These come in the form of Megabucks, Hot Lotto and Weekly Grand with all three regularly handing out multi-million dollar New Hampshire jackpots.
An example of these jackpots came on Aug. 4, 2010 when Frank Sullivan of Gilman Vt., won a $12.5 million Tri-State Megabucks Plus jackpot. Sullivan bought the ticket at the Top of the Hill store in Dalton, but soon told reporters that he wasn’t even the first lottery winner in his family.
Back in 1995, his cousin won an $8 million Megabucks jackpot while another cousin was part of a group that had winning numbers worth $500,000. Not bad for just one New Hampshire family!
The Tri-State Lottery offers players in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont the chance to win larger jackpots than they would normally be able to in single state games. It was the first multi-state lottery of its kind with the first lottery results being drawn on Sept. 14, 1985.
If you aren’t lucky enough to have New Hampshire lottery winning numbers, then don’t fear as the New Hampshire lottery offers an innovative service where players can still win with non-winning tickets.
It’s called New Hampshire Lottery Replay and was the first scheme of its kind in the US. It works by players entering their non-winning tickets to earn points and win prizes such as gift vouchers, holidays and even motorbikes. So far more than 600,000 instant prizes have been won, so it’s no surprise that the scheme has become incredibly popular with New Hampshire Lottery players.
As the first legal U.S. lottery, the New Hampshire Lottery set the standard and showed others the way by providing a large share of their revenue to the state’s education system. In 2009, the New Hampshire Lottery had given more than $1.3 billion to education and will hopefully continue to do so for many more years.
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