Puerto Rico Lottery

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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] Puerto Rico's lottery is the only one of 46 US lotteries that does not participate in either Mega Millions or Powerball.

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

References

v t e Lotteries of 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 (future)

Multi-jurisdictional games (by number of jurisdictions)	Powerball (45) Mega Millions (45) Hot Lotto (16) Lucky For Life (6) Decades of Dollars (4) Wild Card 2 (4) 2by2 (3) MegaHits (3) Tri-State Lottery (3)

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