Maine State Lottery.com (2024)

FAQs

What is the Maine State lottery? ›

The Maine State Lottery offers fun and exciting lottery draw games including Tri-State Megabucks, Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life, World Poker Tour, Lotto America, Tri-State Pick 3 and Pick 4, Tri-State Gimme5 and Tri-State Fast Play as well as an extensive array of instant scratch lottery tickets.

Ticket Sales and Draw Time

Drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 7:59 PM ET. You can watch the Megabucks drawings every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday by visiting the Tri-State Lotto Commission official drawing webcast.

Powerball with Power Play

With starting jackpots of $20,000,000 and a $1,000,000 second prize, Powerball gives you the chance to change your life forever. If that's not enough, for just and additional $1, you can select the Power Play option and the second prize is always $2,000,000.

Jackpocket is your Maine lottery app!

The Maine State Lottery will withhold Federal and State taxes at 24% and 7.15% respectively on prizes over $5000. It is important to understand that the taxes withheld, if any, may not cover your entire Federal or State tax obligations.

Eligibility for participation in the Second Chance Promotion is dictated by the rules and laws of the Maine Lottery. This promotion is void where prohibited by law. To enter the Second Chance Drawings, a player must enter a qualifying ticket.

The Power Play option — which costs an extra $1.00, turning a $2 ticket into a $3 ticket — does the following: has no effect on the Jackpot/Grand Prize, always doubles the payout of the second-most-lucrative prize, and.

The Maine State Lottery joined the Mega Millions game on May 9, 2010. For older winning numbers, please visit the Mega Millions website.

Powerball tickets can be purchased daily. The cut off time for ticket sales is 9:50 PM (ET) on the day of the draw. Drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 PM (ET).

In person at a Lottery Retail Agent location – Bring your winning ticket to any location where lottery tickets are sold. The Lottery Retail Agent will validate your ticket and the lottery system will indicate that you must file a claim at the “Lottery Headquarters”.

Is there an app to help you win the lottery? ›

Pick Smart is a lottery app that guides its users in selecting the numbers to play for MegaMillions and PowerBall. To do so, Pick Smart analyzes past winning numbers and come up with prediction schemes that inform on the likelihood of a ball to be drawn in the next drawing day for MegaMillions or PowerBall.

RewardME is the official player loyalty program from the Maine Lottery.

RewardME is the official player loyalty program from the Maine Lottery.

You may play up to five (5) panels on a single play slip. Each Megabucks Plus play is $2. Mark the Easy Pick (EP) box on each play to let the computer terminal randomly pick your numbers.

On a Mega Millions play slip, in the upper portion of the panel, mark five (5) numbers from 1 to 70 and in the lower portion of the panel, mark one (1) number from 1 to 25. Each Mega Millions play costs $2. Mark the Easy Pick (EP) box on each play and let the computer terminal randomly pick your numbers.