Rhode Island Lottery has a really cool lotto game called Wild Money.
It's cool, not because of the size of the jackpots, but rather because the odds of winning are great, relative to most of the other lottery games.
The Wild Money jackpots start at $20,000 and they keep growing if nobody wins it.
The game draws three times per week, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, so the jackpots can grow quite quickly.
Although the minimum jackpot is $20,000, it can grow to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The highest its ever been was a whopping $601,206.
Sure, these jackpots aren't as big as, say, Powerball jackpots, but the main appeal of the game are the odds of winning.
To win the Wild Money jackpot, you must match 5-out-of-31 numbers.
The odds of getting all 5 numbers are approximately 1-in-325,000.
Not bad odds at all, considering the odds of winning RI Lottery's biggest game, Powerball, are approximately 1-in-195-million.
Look at it this way - If you buy just a single ticket for each of the aforementioned games, you would be about 600 times more likely to win the jackpot on the Wild Money ticket.
Astonishing, isn't it? Sure, the jackpot isn't as high as it is in Powerball, but being considerably more likely to win with Wild Money, it's better to win something rather than nothing, don't you think? The game has other, smaller prizes as well.
The secondary prizes range from $5 if you match 2 numbers, plus the extra ball.
, to $1500 if you match 4 numbers, plus the extra ball.