Lotto South

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Lotto South was a lottery game in Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. It resulted from the September 2001 merger of three smaller-jackpot games: Lotto Georgia, Lotto Kentucky, and Lotto Virginia. This was done to increase the size of the jackpot by pooling them. Oddly, the 6/49 matrix of Virginia's game was not expanded.

Drawings took place at WTVR-TV studios in Richmond, on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00PM EST/EDT. Jackpots started at $2 million, increasing if there was no winner. It was administered jointly by the Georgia Lottery, Virginia Lottery, and Kentucky Lottery corporations.

Its record jackpot was $27 million won on December 31, 2005.

In January 2006, it was announced that the game would be retired; its final drawing took place on February 25. The jackpot was not won; the lower tier prizes doubled, instead of rolling down the entire prize pool. The three lotteries kept the rest of the money.

The game was replaced by one that does not offer a cash option.

There is a proposal to revive Lotto South as early as 2010, in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, as well as Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. A new Lotto South almost certainly would have a cash option, and likely replace WFL. No other details are known as of November 2009.