Connecticut Mix & Match

Connecticut Mix & Match will be introduced by the Connecticut Lottery in 2008.1 A similar game began in Pennsylvania in January 2007.

Players will choose five numbers from a field of 20 (The Pennsylvania Game is 5/19.) The number field will be much smaller than most pick-5 games; however, just matching all five numbers won't be enough to win the top prize. The numbers selected by the player must also match the order of the numbers drawn. Therefore, the numbers for this game will rarely be given in ascending order. Winning tickets will contain at least three of the five numbers drawn (in any order); a ticket will automatically win if any of the five numbers matches in the position that the player selects for that number. A ticket can win both ways (e.g. a ticket matching three numbers in exact order will also win by the "any order" match.

Connecticut has not gone public with other details of this game as of October 2, 2007, such as drawing days (Monday and Thursday would be most likely), ticket cost (Pennsylvania's game is $2 per play), and the top prize (the 5/19 game has a cash jackpot that starts at $50,000.) However, the odds of winning Connecticut's first prize can be determined as 1 in 20x19x18x17x16 (the existing 5-of-19 game substitutes "15" for "20", so the Connecticut game will have 33% longer jackpot odds than Pennsylvania's.) A traditional pick-5 game is 120 times as "easy" to win, since there are 120 ways of arranging five different numbers.