- Northstar Cash
Northstar Cash is an exclusive lottery for the state of
Minnesota , operated by theMinnesota State Lottery . It has an all-cash jackpot exclusive to the state, having been established onOctober 7 ,2003 . [cite web
url= http://www.mnlottery.com/
title= Official Minnesota State Lottery site]Playing the game
To play the game, a player pays one dollar and picks five distinct numbers from 1 to 31. The player wins according to the following:
Overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 6. The jackpot is paid in cash and will be divided equally if there is more than one winner. The minimum jackpot amount for a drawing is $25,000.
Tickets must be purchased before 6:10 p.m. to be eligible for that day's drawing at 6:26 p.m. Drawings are held daily.
Unlikely winner
On
February 11 ,2007 , Raymond Snouffer Jr., an airline pilot fromMaplewood, Minnesota , won Northstar Cash for the second time in two days, an occurrence that lottery officials inaccurately described as "virtually incalculable". [cite news
title = Man Wins $25,000 Lottery Two Days in Row
work = SFGate.com
date = 2007-02-16
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/15/national/a200905S70.DTL
accessdate = 2008-03-08 ] (The actual probability of this happening is merely the square of the odds of a single day's jackpot win, viz. 1:28,869,747,921, assuming he held only one ticket for each drawing). [cite web
title = "In Which We Are Smarter than the Minnesota Lottery"
work = Muttroxia
date = 2007-02-18
url = http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2007/02/18/in-which-we-are-smarter-than-the-minnesota-lottery/
accessdate = 2008-03-08 ]References
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