State Specific Rules

The game is played the same in Indiana as in other states – simply pick five main numbers between 1 and 69, plus one Powerball between 1 and 26. You can either select your own numbers or ask for a Quick Pick, and you can add the Power Play option for an extra $1 per line to boost any non-jackpot prizes you win by up to 10 times their original value. The following state-specific rules also apply:

• The Indiana Hoosier Lottery Pick 4 has twice-daily draws and a jackpot of $5000 for each draw. The maximum amount you can win depends on how much you wager and the playstyle you choose. You win the biggest jackpot when your ticket matches the winning draw numbers in exact order.
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• The minimum age to play Powerball in Indiana is 18 years old.
• The cut-off time for ticket sales is 9:58pm ET.
• You can enter the same numbers in up to 10 consecutive drawings in advance.
• Winnings over $1,200 will be subject to a state tax rate of 3.23 percent.

Prizes $600 and under can be redeemed at most Hoosier Lottery retailers, all Hoosier Lottery regional offices, Hoosier Lottery Headquarters at 201 S. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, IN - across from the RCA Dome (main floor lobby) or by mail.

Powerball drawings are broadcast on TV stations throughout the state. The following table shows how you can watch from where you live:

Hoosier Lottery Post Winning Numbers

How to Claim Prizes

The method for claiming a prize in Indiana depends on how much you have won. If you are collecting your prize in person, you will be able to redeem a winning ticket of up to $25 at any Hoosier Lottery retailer. For amounts over $25 and up to $599, it is at the discretion of the retailer whether they pay out prizes or not. If they do not have sufficient cash on the premises, you may be required to claim from elsewhere.

You must visit a regional claim center or the Hoosier Lottery headquarters to claim a prize between $600 and $49,999 and for larger amounts you must visit the headquarters.

The following table shows the addresses of the Hoosier Lottery headquarters and the regional claim centers:

You can also claim prizes by mail. You will need to complete a claim form and send it off to the address shown below, along with your winning ticket. For prizes of $600 and above you will also need to provide a copy of a government-issued photo ID. It normally takes between seven and 10 business days for checks to be processed.

Hoosier Lottery
1302 N. Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202

If you play as part of a lottery pool and win a prize, separate payments can be made to up to 99 individuals in a group. One member of the pool needs to sign the ticket and claim form, but you must then also submit an IRS 5754 form to claim as a group. This tax form divides the tax liability for group prizes. Everyone must present their own valid photographic identification.

Claim Period

There is a 180-day deadline for Powerball prizes in Indiana, starting from the date of the draw. You must come forward within this period otherwise you will miss out on your prize and the money will stay with the lottery to pay for future prizes and promotions.

Lost and Damaged Tickets

All Powerball tickets are bearer instruments, so anyone in possession of a winning entry can file a claim. You will not be able to receive a prize if you lose your ticket, so you should sign the back of it to prove it belongs to you and prevent anyone else from making a claim. If your ticket has been damaged, you can still try to claim a prize but it must meet a series of validation requirements before you can be paid out.

Going Public

There is a Public Records law in Indiana which means that the Hoosier Lottery must disclose the details of all its big winners. However, you can claim prizes through legal trusts or limited liability companies to shield your name from the wider world and effectively remain anonymous.

Where Does the Money Go?

The majority of the revenue generated from Powerball tickets in Indiana, 60 percent, goes straight back to players in the form of prize money. Seven percent is paid to retailers in commissions, while operating expenses account for six percent. The remaining 27 percent is reserved for good causes, and more than $5.3 billion has been distributed for the benefit of the state since the Hoosier Lottery started in 1989.

The money for good causes is split several different ways, but so far the Build Indiana Fund has received $3.9 billion to help major economic development projects. Over $820 million has gone to the Teachers’ Retirement Fund, while local police and firefighters’ pensions have benefited to the tune of more than $630 million.

Indiana Powerball Winners

There have been more jackpot-winning tickets sold in Indiana than any other state in the U.S., dating back to the very first drawing on April 22nd 1992, when Bert Morlan, an 85-year-old former mayor of the city of Brazil, pocketed $5.9 million. The biggest win of them all came on February 22nd 2017, when a Purdue University graduate from the Greater Lafayette area claimed $435 million. A manufacturing worker, he received the prize through a limited liability company called Bohemian Financial, LLC in order to stay private. He opted for the cash sum of $263 million rather than the annuity.

The second-biggest Powerball win in Indiana was actually claimed by a resident of Ohio – David Coterel from Riverside. He won $314 million on August 25th 2007, having bought his ticket from a Speedway convenience store in Richmond, just near the state line. Coterel elected to take the $145 million lump sum and said he would buy cars, take trips and watch his money closely.

The Hoosier Lottery is the official state lottery of Indiana, and is the only US lottery that uses the state's nickname as its official name. It is a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). The Hoosier Lottery sells scratch-off tickets; its draw games include Mega Millions, Hoosier Lotto, Powerball, Cash 5, and Poker Lotto.

The Hoosier Lottery is based in the state capital of Indianapolis, with regional offices in Mishawaka and Evansville.

Indiana was among those states participating in the short-lived multi-state draw game Monopoly Millionaires' Club from October 19 to December 26, 2014.

History[edit]

In early American history, legislators commonly established lotteries to fund schools, roads, and other public works.^[1] The government of the Indiana Territory in 1807 chartered Vincennes University, authorizing it to raise up to $20,000 in a lottery, to provide for a library and other facilities.^[2] The lottery was a failure; after a year, those few tickets that had been sold were recalled.^[3] Another lottery was authorized in 1810 to raise $1,000 to buy books for a library in Vincennes, but it was unsuccessful.^[4] Another was authorized in 1818 for the Jeffersonville Ohio Canal Company to raise $100,000, but it only brought in $2,536.^[5]

The 1840s and 1850s saw a general movement against lotteries in the United States, partly on moral grounds, and partly due to a backlash against legislative corruption.^[6] The Indiana constitutional convention of 1851 adopted, with little debate, a clause that 'no lottery shall be authorized; nor shall the sale of lottery tickets be allowed'.^[2]

Vincennes University moved to revive its lottery in 1879, arguing successfully in a test case before the Indiana Supreme Court that, under the Contracts Clause, the lottery provision of the 1807 charter could not be revoked, even by a constitutional ban.^[7][8] The U.S. Supreme Court soon rejected a similar argument in Stone v. Mississippi,^[9] but Vincennes was able to run its lottery as a policy game, contracted out to a group of experienced lottery operators from Kentucky,^[10] for over a year before it was ruled unlawful in 1883.^[2][11]

In 1988, state voters approved by 62 percent a constitutional amendment lifting the ban.^[12][13] Indiana legislators authorized the state lottery, along with parimutuel betting on horse racing, in May 1989.^[14][15] The first scratch-off game, Hoosier Millionaire, went on sale in October.^[16] Lotto Cash, the first online game, began in April 1990.^[17]

Record in-house jackpot[edit]

The drawing on November 7, 2007 had a jackpot of $54.5 million, its largest jackpot ever. Retired steel worker Peter Gilbert of East Chicago, Indiana chose the cash option of $40.4 million rather than the 30 annual payments.^[18] There were no jackpot winners since October 21, 2006, so the grand prize broke its previous jackpot record of $42 million set June 5, 1999.

Current Games[edit]

In-house draw games[edit]

Daily 3[edit]

Daily 3 is a daily pick 3 game that began in 1990. Prices, prizes and types of play vary. Daily 3 is drawn 14 times weekly.

Daily 4[edit]

Daily 4 also began in 1990. Prices, prizes and types of play vary. Daily 4 is drawn 14 times weekly.

Hoosier Lottery Payout Chart

Cash 5[edit]

Cash 5 is a $1-per-play draw game, where players must match from 2-5 of their 5 selected numbers from a field of 45 in order to win. Numbers are drawn 7 nights a week.

Quick Draw[edit]

Quick Draw is daily; games cost $1 each. Players choose 10 numbers from 1-80. The Lottery draws 20 numbers. Matching any 10 of the 20 numbers wins $300,000. This game is very similar to Keno.

Hoosier Lotto[edit]

Hoosier Lotto was the first Indiana lottery game. The draw held on Wednesday and Saturdays, and uses a 6/46 matrix. The jackpots begin at $1 million; after two drawings without a winner, the jackpot increases by $100,000 per draw. Games cost $2 each. For an extra $1, the add-on feature called +Plus add one more chance to win $1 million.

Multi-jurisdictional games[edit]

Cash4Life[edit]

The Hoosier lottery joined Cash4Life on September 19, 2016. (The game also is available in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.)

Players choose 5 of 60 numbers in one field, and 1 of 4 green 'Cash Ball' numbers in the second field. Live drawings are held on Monday and Thursday evenings at 9pm Eastern Time on Livestream. The top prize (win or share) $1,000-per-day-for-life. Second prize is $1,000-per-week-for-life.^[19][20]

Mega Millions[edit]

On October 13, 2009, the Mega Millions consortium and MUSL reached an agreement in principle to cross-sell Mega Millions and Powerball in U.S. lottery jurisdictions. On January 31, 2010, the Hoosier Lottery began selling Mega Millions tickets.

Powerball[edit]

Hoosier Lottery Post Winning Numbers

Since 1990, the Hoosier Lottery has been a MUSL member. Powerball began in 1992. Powerball's jackpots currently start at $40 million; it is drawn Wednesday and Saturday nights.

Retired Games[edit]

Lucky 5[edit]

Lucky 5 was replaced by Cash 5 on November 3, 2012.

Mix & Match[edit]

Indiana Lottery Post Winning Numbers

Mix & Match was drawn on Tuesday and Friday evenings. For each Mix & Match ticket, players received three lines of five numbers each; one play cost $2. Five numbers from 1-50 were drawn. There were multiple ways of winning. Players could have matched the 5 numbers across a three line set to win up to $5,000; or matched all five numbers on a single line to win $200,000. The game was retired on August 22, 2014.

Hoosier Lotto Plus Winning Numbers

Poker Lotto[edit]

With a cost of $2 per play, Poker Lotto is a combination of both instant and draw games. All picks are computer generated 'quick picks', as the first half of the game is won by the player being 'dealt' a winning poker hand on their ticket. (Pair of Jacks or better, grand prize $5,000). Regardless of a win or loss on the instant game, the player's ticket is eligible for the nightly draw, where the player's cards must match at least 2 of the drawn cards in order to win. (Grand prize $250,000). Poker Lotto began selling tickets on August 25, 2013. The game's end date is unknown.

Hoosier Lottery Post

References[edit]

Check Winning Lottery Numbers Indiana

1. ^McMaster, John Bach (1911). A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Appleton and Company. p. 588.
2. ^ ^abcHoward, Timothy Edward (1907). A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 98.
3. ^Burnett, Howard R. (1933). 'Early History of Vincennes University'. Indiana Magazine of History. 29 (2): 120.
4. ^Constantine, J. Robert (1965). 'The Vincennes Library Company: A Cultural Institution in Pioneer Indiana'. Indiana Magazine of History. 61 (4): 316, 352.
5. ^Fatout, Paul (1961). 'Canal Agitation at Ohio Falls'. Indiana Magazine of History. 57 (4): 303.
6. ^Szymanski, Ann-Marie E. (2003). Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes. Duke University Press. pp. 95–96. ISBN978-0-8223-3169-8.
7. ^Kellum v. The State, 66 Ind. 588 (Ind. 1879).
8. ^'Men and things in Indiana: A university starting a lottery'. New York Times. February 5, 1882.
9. ^Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U.S. 814 (U.S. 1880).
10. ^'Notes from Indiana: How a lottery scheme was legalized'. New York Times. December 3, 1882.
11. ^State v. Woodward, 89 Ind. 110 (Ind. 1883).
12. ^'Voters lift state curb on lottery'. The Post-Tribune. Merrillville: via HighBeam. November 9, 1988. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016.(subscription required)
13. ^'Lottery opponents say they will continue fight'. The Post-Tribune. Merrillville: via HighBeam. November 10, 1988. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016.(subscription required)
14. ^'Hoosier lottery is approved, along with pari-mutuel bets'. Rochester Sentinel. AP. May 4, 1989.
15. ^'They said...'The Post-Tribune. Merrillville: via HighBeam. May 13, 1989. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016.(subscription required)
16. ^'Lottery fever dies, but goal reachable'. Bryan Times. UPI. October 16, 1989.
17. ^Kusmer, Ken (April 30, 1990). 'Lottery's 'cash game' begins'. Madison Courier. AP.
18. ^http://www.in.gov/hoosierlottery/main/media_room/pressdata.asp?pressid=1377
19. ^'Cash4Life by CASH4LIFE'.
20. ^'Hoosier Lottery'. www.hoosierlottery.com.

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