Arkansas lottery wheels
Arkansas has 2 lotto-style games: Arkansas LOTTO and Natural State Jackpot. It also sells Powerball, Mega Millions and Millionaire for Life. Choose a game to mark your numbers and see what each wheel guarantees, or read on for how the Arkansas games compare and how to play a wheel there.
Arkansas lotto games compared
| Game | Numbers | Per line | Draws a week | Top prize | Top prize odds | A small wheel* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas LOTTO | 6 of 40 + drawn Bonus Number | $2 | 2 | Jackpot, from $250,000 | 1 in 3,838,380 | 10 numbers, 10 tickets, $20 a draw; comes into play on 1 in 6.5 draws |
| Natural State Jackpot | 5 of 39 | $1 | 7 | Jackpot, from $50,000 | 1 in 575,757 | 10 numbers, 17 tickets, $17 a draw; comes into play on 1 in 10 draws |
* The smallest wheel that guarantees a three-number match whenever three of the winning numbers are among the ones you mark. Each game's page has bigger and smaller wheels.
Which Arkansas game suits a wheel?
- For a guarantee that comes into play most often: Arkansas LOTTO. With 10 of its 40 numbers marked, three winning numbers land among yours on 1 in 6.5 draws, about once every 3 weeks.
- For the lowest cost per line: Natural State Jackpot, at $1 a line.
- For the longest odds and usually the biggest top prize: Arkansas LOTTO, at 1 in 3,838,380 per line.
Buying tickets in Arkansas
- Tickets are sold in stores, not online.
- Ticket courier services are allowed in Arkansas.
- The lottery's app can turn your numbers into a digital playslip, a QR code the retailer scans. That's the quickest way to enter a wheel's lines.
- To play a wheel in a store, copy each line onto an official playslip, or read your lines to the clerk.
For official rules, results and retailers, visit the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. LotteryWheels.com is independent and not part of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.
National games in Arkansas
Other Arkansas Scholarship Lottery games
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery also runs Cash 3 and Cash 4. Wheels don't apply to those: they only help with games where you pick several numbers from one pool.