 Northstar Cash is an exclusive lottery for the state of Minnesota, operated by the Minnesota State Lottery. It has an all-cash jackpot exclusive to the state, having been established on October 7, 2003.
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:
| Matches |
Payoff |
Odds of winning |
| 2 of 5 numbers |
$ 1 |
1: 7 |
| 3 of 5 numbers |
$ 5 |
1: 52 |
| 4 of 5 numbers |
$ 50 |
1: 1,307 |
| 5 of 5 numbers |
Jackpot |
1: 169,911 |
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.
Miscellania
On 2007-02-11, Raymond Snouffer Jr., an airline pilot from Maplewood, Minnesota, won Northstar Cash for the second time in two days, an occurrence that lottery officials inaccurately described as "virtually incalculable". (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 $1 ticket for each drawing).
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. The 12th-largest state by area in the U.S., it is the 21st most populous, with just over five million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858. The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", and those lakes and the other waters for which the state is named, together with state and national forests and parks, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the Twin Cities, the center of transportation, business, and industry, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state, often referred to as "Greater Minnesota" or "Outstate Minnesota", consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; eastern deciduous forests, also heavily farmed and settled; and the less-populated northern boreal forest. While the state's residents are primarily white and of Northern European ancestry, substantial influxes of African, Asian, and Latin American immigrants have joined the descendants of European immigrants and of the original Native American inhabitants.
The extremes of the climate contrast with the moderation of Minnesota’s people. The state is known for its moderate-to-progressive politics and social policies, its civic involvement, and high voter turnout. It ranks among the healthiest states by a number of measures, and has one of the most highly educated and literate populations.
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