Puerto Rico Lottery

Lotería de Puerto Rico (English: Puerto Rico Lottery), is the oldest "modern" lottery in the US; it began in 1934. (The oldest mainland US lottery is the New Hampshire Lottery; its beginnings as the New Hampshire Sweepstakes were in 1964.) The lottery is operated by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department.^[1]

Puerto Rico's lottery includes daily pick 2, pick 3, and pick 4 games, weekly regular lottery draws on Wednesdays (50 times annually), and two special draws, each prior to Mother's Day and Christmas. The lottery uses equipment for the sale of electronic lottery tickets from Scientific Games Corporation.^[2] Powerball has been added to Puerto Rico's lottery. Mega Millions is not currently offered; there are no known plans for the Puerto Rico lottery to offer it.

The lottery also offers "instant" scratch-off games, which were introduced in 2010.

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Lotteries in the United States

US lotteries	Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas US Virgin Islands Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Multi-state games (by number of jurisdictions)	Powerball (47) Mega Millions (46) Lucky for Life (23) Hot Lotto (15) Cash4Life (8) MegaHits (5) 2by2 (3) Tri-State Lottery (3) All or Nothing (2)

Former multi-state games	Cash4Life (1998–2000) Daily Millions Decades of Dollars Lotto*America Lotto South Midwest Millions Monopoly Millionaires' Club Wild Card Win for Life

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