Tri-State Lottery

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Tri-State Lottery refers to games offered by the lotteries of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It was the first multi-jurisdictional lottery, with its first drawing on September 14, 1985.^[1] Tri-State Lottery offers four shared games. With Maine (a Multi-State Lottery Association member from 1990-1992) returning to MUSL in 2004, all three states also offer Powerball, run by MUSL. (Tri-State games are not part of MUSL.)

Tri-State Megabucks will become Megabucks Plus, doubling the cost of a ticket (to $2) on July 26, 2009. Megabucks Plus will remain a six-number game, but will be played in a similar fashion as Powerball.

All Tri-State games are drawn using numbered balls, except for raffles and the twice-weekly drawing game Weekly Grand, which feature a random number generator (RNG).[1]