The Lotto America® jackpot has been won for the first time this year, with a Minnesota Lottery player scoring a $34.12 million jackpot in last night’s drawing.
The winning ticket was the only one nationwide to match all six numbers drawn last night – 13, 17, 22, 28, 40 and the Lotto America Star Ball® was 3. The All Star Bonus® multiplier was two.
The lucky winner will have the choice to receive the prize as an annuity, paid out as 30 increasing payments over 29 years, or a lump sum payout of $15.15 million. Both prize options are before taxes.
The jackpot winner wasn’t the game’s only big winner in Minnesota. A second Minnesota Lottery player won a $20,000 cash prize after matching the first five numbers drawn last night. Across all participating lotteries, more than 76,000 players won prizes in the drawing.
Lotto America features a rolling jackpot and eight lower-tier cash prizes. The game has the same draw nights as Powerball® – Monday, Wednesday and Saturday – but offers a smaller field of numbers and better odds of winning a prize. A Lotto America ticket is priced at $1 per play compared to $2 per play for Powerball, and the odds of winning the Lotto America jackpot are 1 in 25.9 million compared to 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball.
Players pick five numbers from 1 to 52 and one Lotto America Star Ball® number from 1 to 10. For an additional $1 per play, players can add the All Star Bonus feature to their ticket to multiply any non-jackpot prize by 2, 3, 4 or 5 times. The multiplier is randomly selected prior to every drawing. The game’s Match 5 prize of $20,000 can be increased up to $100,000 when the 5X multiplier is drawn.
The Lotto America jackpot was previously won in South Dakota on Aug. 6, 2025, by a ticket that won a jackpot worth $4.01 million.
The Lotto America jackpot resets to $2 million for tomorrow night’s drawing and has a cash value of $880,000. Meanwhile, the Powerball® jackpot is currently estimated at $544 million, with a cash value of $241.6 million, for tomorrow night’s drawing. Powerball tickets cost $2 per play.