Minnesota lottery wheels
Minnesota has 2 lotto-style games: Gopher 5 and North 5. It also sells Powerball, Mega Millions and Lotto America. Choose a game to mark your numbers and see what each wheel guarantees, or read on for how the Minnesota games compare and how to play a wheel there.
Minnesota lotto games compared
| Game | Numbers | Per line | Draws a week | Top prize | Top prize odds | A small wheel* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gopher 5 | 5 of 47 | $1 | 3 | Jackpot, from $100,000 | 1 in 1,533,939 | 10 numbers, 17 tickets, $17 a draw; comes into play on 1 in 17 draws |
| North 5 | 5 of 34 | $1 | 7 | Jackpot, from $25,000 | 1 in 278,256 | 10 numbers, 17 tickets, $17 a draw; comes into play on 1 in 7.2 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 Minnesota game suits a wheel?
- For a guarantee that comes into play most often: North 5. With 10 of its 34 numbers marked, three winning numbers land among yours on 1 in 7.2 draws, about once a week or more.
- For the longest odds and usually the biggest top prize: Gopher 5, at 1 in 1,533,939 per line.
Buying tickets in Minnesota
- Tickets are sold in stores, not online.
- 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.
- Since July 2026, no one may buy more than $10,000 of plays for a single drawing, and a pool counts as one buyer.
For official rules, results and retailers, visit the Minnesota Lottery. LotteryWheels.com is independent and not part of the Minnesota Lottery.
National games in Minnesota
Other Minnesota Lottery games
The Minnesota Lottery also runs Pick 3, Fast Play and Raffles. Wheels don't apply to those: they only help with games where you pick several numbers from one pool.