Overview of Arkansas Lottery Results and Game Types

Greetings and welcome to the most comprehensive overview of the Arkansas Lottery. All you need to know about the state’s lottery can be found right here: all the games, prizes, odds, types, and – most importantly – winning numbers! We’ll also take you through some of the interesting history surrounding the state’s approach to the lottery. Did you know that the AR Lottery does not use balls and drawing machines, but instead exclusively uses a random number generator? They were the first US Lottery to embrace computerized drawings! Learn interesting tidbits and all the more crucial info after the jump!

The Arkansas Lottery has some pretty stellar games – we’ll guide you through those best lottos of the Nature State, starting with the fabulous Draw Games on offer, from big to small, with the essential info – drawing times, rules, and the recent winning numbers. Arkansas Scratchers are aplenty, giving bettors in the state a variety of instant win gems. We’ll also take you through those alternative games that make Arkansas special, as well as important laws and the intriguing history of the AR lotto. What are you waiting for? Let’s jump in!

The Various Arkansas Lottery Games On Offer

As we said before, Draw Games and Scratchers form the backbone of the lottery repertoire around the country. Arkansas has a great selection of these two main types, but also has some state quirks that round out the selection of games, not quite fitting in to either the Draw Games or Scratchers. The following sections will help you navigate this diverse range of exciting and creative lottos, giving you – the bettor – as clearer understanding of the AR lotto as possible, so you can approach all lottery opportunities geared up to win!

Draw Games: AR Lottos with Huge Jackpots

Draw Games are the real thing when it comes to the Arkansas Lottery – they offer some of the biggest jackpots around, with some decent odds considering the insane size of the winnings. Though we might need a little disclaimer – the odds are pretty high! Basically, when you buy a ticket you select a few numbers out of a given range. Later, another selection of numbers is randomly drawn by the organizers, these are the ‘winning numbers’. Match your selection of numbers on your ticket with the winning numbers to win! The more numbers the better. Check out the table below for the draw times of the best AR lottos.

As you can see from the table, there are a whole lot of AR lotto results drawings for the various games in the Arkansas lottery, so you never have to wait too long before finding out if you’re a winner. There are a few with bi-weekly drawings, calling numbers in the evenings. These tend to be the lotteries with the biggest jackpots. For the lesser lottos, the ones with the lower stakes but greater odds, there are more frequent drawings, sometimes even daily! Check the best Draw Games of the Arizona Lottery in the sections below, we’ve broken down all the ways to win with odds and prize amounts.

Mega Millions: Big Wins and a Multiplier

This multi-jurisdictional AR Lotto used to be called The Big Game, until the name change in 2002, and for good reason too! It’s one of the biggest lotteries in the lottery country, with jackpots sometimes climbing up to the $500 million territory! Tickets cost $2 to select 5 numbers from a range of 70, with a 1/25 ‘Megaball’ bonus. Importantly, you can also opt to purchase a $1 multiplier on top of your ticket, which increases your winnings by 2, 3, 4, or even up to 5 times!

Powerball: Popular and a Power Play

Along with Mega Millions, Powerball is the other hugely popular lottery available not just with the Arkansas Lottery, but nation-wide, across all states that offer lotteries to play. Quite similar to its counterpart in style, price, prizes and odds, this AR Lotto Draw Game is a 5/69 game, with a ‘Powerball’ bonus of 1/26. You can also opt in to purchase a $1 ‘Power Play’ on top of your $2 ticket, in order to improve the overall odds of returning any kind of cash prize, making this lotto a lot more worthwhile in our opinion.

Natural State Jackpot: The Arkansas Special

Natural State Jackpot is an almost daily draw game exclusive to Arkansas. The game is a 5/39 Draw Game, meaning you select five numbers from a range of 1 to 39. The starting jackpot prize is $50,000 – after each draw without a winning jackpot number (all five numbers match exactly), the jackpot increases by $5,000 until it hits $150,000, after which it increases by $10,000! So yeah, we think this one is a keeper, it’s got great odds for a pretty significant jackpot. Tickets are also only $1, so it’s actually pretty low risk.

Cash 3

Cash 3 is a Draw Game in a style that you might be familiar with. It seems simple upon first glance, you just select a three-digit number between 000 and 999, but is quite complex when you take in all the ways to play. First of all, you can buy a ticket for either $0.50 or $1, making this one of the cheapest Draw Games we’ve seen. Then you select how your numbers are played: straight (exact match), box (match in any order), straight/box (combine $0.50 straight and $0.50 box play), and combo (three or six straight plays).

Cash 4

Cash 4 takes a leaf out of the page of (you guessed it) Cash 3, and takes it to the next level. Where Cash 3 lets you pick a number from 000 to 999, Cash 4 goes all the way up to 9,999, increasing the odds – but also increasing the payouts. Along with the drawing numbers, the ways to pay are also multiplied accordingly, making this particular Arkansas Lotto have an incredible 13 ways to play! We think this lottery is one of the most dynamic we’ve seen. Check out the ways to play below with their prizes and odds and make up your own mind.

Lucky for Life

Lucky for Life is another of those bi-weekly stunners, this particular one a regional game played throughout the East Coast. It’s been going on for a while now – Massachusetts has the most winners, with 41 getting the two top prizes since the lottery’s inception n 2015. Those who manage to take the top prize snag $1,000 a day for the rest of their lives! The next best prize isn’t too shabby either, $25,000 a year. It’s a 5/48 game, with a bonus Lucky Ball number being drawn from 18 possible numbers. Check the odds and prizes out below.

The Top Arkansas Scratchers: Lottery Scratchers with Best Odds

Arkansas doesn’t exactly have a dearth when it comes to Scratch Off tickets. In fact, some of the best Arkansas lottery games are those Scratcher tickets that can be picked up on the cheap and return regularly. Scratchers aren’t as heavy-hitting as those huge Draw Games, but are more rewarding in their regular wins. They’re those games that you might’ve seen been picked up on the street, where the buyer gets a piece of card with symbols that they can then scratch off to reveal prizes. Best thing about them is that they’re instant! Check out our selection of the best below.

1. 200Xtra (Odds: 1 out of 2.97)
2. Cash Club (Odds: 1 out of 2.98)
3. Multiplier Mania (Odds: 1 out of 2.99)
4. Big Multiplier (Odds: 1 out of 2.99)
5. Millionaires Club (Odds: 1 out of 3.00)

You can get your hands on a variety of Scratchers (in Arkansas they’re officially called Instant Games), and they range in price from $1 all the way up to $20. The Scratchers with the best overall odds of winning tend to be those that cost the most, and that fact holds true for our top five – they’re all either $20 or $10. These are more likely to get you any kind of win, and the jackpots aren’t too bad either. 200Xtra has a top prize of $500,000!

Special Arkansas Lottery Games

Arkansas has a nice little selection of alternative lottery games to the Draw and Scratcher standard. Most of these are called Fast Play games, and they play a lot similar to Scratchers. Here’s what you need to know – they’re instant wins, they’ve got decent odds, and most of all they’re fun! They often resemble some pretty classic games. Take a close look at Beat the Dealer and you might notice that it’s a little riff on blackjack, where the dealer has a hand to beat and you might get dealt the cards than can do it! Fish Finder bares a striking resemblance to that old classic Battleship, where you have coordinates given to you, and you have to find out whether you’ve hit the big fish on a map! These games range in ticket prices, prizes and odds, but with some even having progressive jackpots, we think they’re worth the money.

The Most Important Arkansas Lottery Laws

Laws change from state to state, and the it’s no difference for those residents living in Arkansas. Just across the border in Tennessee, Mississippi, or Oklahoma, citizens might have distinct laws surrounding who can place a bet and take part in these lottery games. What is legal in these states might not be legal in Arkansas, and vice versa. We’ve broken the key legal items down for you in the table below, so you’ll be able to play the AR Lotto with confidence.

Let’s break that all down for you. In Arkansas, it’s legal to play the Lottery once you turn 18. That’s good news for all you teenagers out there – if you were born in Mississippi you’d have to wait until you turn 21. Taxes are hugely important – most states take a state-level tax, and Arkansas is no exception. They take 7.0% on top of the federal taxes. Anonymity is also a critical one. Unfortunately, Arkansas doesn’t allow for anonymity, and any winners’ names are on public record. A few other states allow winners to remain anonymous – that’s Delaware, Ohio and South Carolina, among others.

History of the Arkansas Lottery

The Arkansas Lottery traces all the way back to 2009. Not very old hey? The states in the south-east of the United States – or the Bible Belt as some like to call it – have a contentious relationship with gambling, given the religious implications. This has meant that the lottery has come to these states a bit later than their more progressive counterparts, and to some others (*cough* Alabama *cough*) not at all. Since it started, the Arkansas Lottery has dedicated all its revenue to providing scholarships for Arkansas residents heading to universities and colleges, giving the Lottery it’s name – the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.

While not very old, the Arkansas Lottery has contributed to some big wins. Most notably, in 2017 a mammoth lingering jackpot was finally snagged by a ticket bought out of Arkansas. The ticket went for $177 Million! A huge win for the Texas man, who, while sadly not an Arkansas local, went on to help out his local church and sister church. We reckon a big winner out of Arkansas will be even more generous.

Conclusion

Alright, there’s all the nuts and bolts of the Arkansas Lottery for you. There are some top notch Draw Games, some fun Scratchers that are more than just a distraction, and some fun Arkansas alternative lottery games that’ll keep things interesting, that we’re sure of. Whenever there’s a winner for those nerve-wracking Draw Games we’ll have everything posted here, so remember to check back here for all your Arkansas Lottery winning numbers. If you’re curious about any other state lotteries, check out our guide to Lottery games in America and scroll to your favorite state.

Common Questions that People Also Ask

Before you go, there are always some pressing matters that you might’ve missed (or we might’ve!), so read on for some of the most common questions regarding the AR lotto. It never is a bad idea to educate yourself, as an informed bettor is a winning bettor.