Daily Millions was a US lottery game administered by the

Multi-State Lottery Association The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) is an American non-profit, government-benefit association owned and operated by agreement of its 34 member lottery, lotteries. MUSL was created to facilitate the operation of multi-jurisdictional lottery ...

(MUSL). It was available in some of the jurisdictions that sell MUSL's most popular game,

Powerball Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). From its inaugural drawing on April 19, 1992, unti ...

; membership fluctuated during the period when it was available. It began in September 1996 and was discontinued in March 1998. The game was drawn daily, including Sundays. Players paid US$1 for each game, which consisted of six numbers. Two numbers each were drawn from three colored number fields, each numbered from 1 through 21. The balls were dyed in the shades of the

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; red, white, and blue, and drawn from three drum hoppers. Players won by matching at least two of the six numbers, regardless of which color drum(s) the matching balls came from. Matching all six won $1 million, which was

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, rather than annuitized. The name "Daily Millions" was chosen since MUSL believed the game would be popular enough for the association to award, on average, at least one $1 million prize per drawing. Top prize winners, however, were unexpectedly rare. The game jokingly became known as "Daily Miracle", perhaps because it survived as long as it did. In June 2002,

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

and

Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...

started

2by2 2by2 is a lottery game offered in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. It is drawn nightly at the Iowa headquarters of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). Kansas and Nebraska started the game in 2002; North Dakota joined in 2006, ...

, which is played much like Daily Millions was, except players choose from two sets of 26 numbers each(red and white; the same colors as in Powerball). The top prize is $22,000(doubled to $44,000 for Tuesday drawings if the winner purchased a ticket for seven consecutive draws(or increments of 7 draws: 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 or 42)); it does not roll over when there is no ticket matching all four numbers.

North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...

became 2by2's third member in 2006,

Wyoming Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...

in March 2021, and

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...

in April 2021.

External links

MUSL official site
{{U.S. lotteries Lottery games in the United States