California Lottery

The California State Lottery sells lottery tickets for the state of California that helps fund public schools within the state. Their official website is at www.calottery.com. Since 1984, the purpose of the CA Lottery was to generate money and funding for the CA public schools. The funding allocation was setup as 34 cents of every one dollar that is spent on lottery tickets, is to go to public schools. The lottery funds go to Kindergarten - 12th grade schools, community colleges, the University of CA, adult and charter schools. Since 2000, the CA Lottery has contributed $1 billion to the public school system each year. http://www.calottery.com/support/lotteryfunds/

The largest money jackpot in CA history is from the Mega Millions contest, which had a total jackpot worth $315 million in 2005 and there was only one winning ticket that came forward to claim the prize. The largest group to claim a lotto was a group of 56 people that split $18.68 million. http://www.calottery.com/Media/

The California Lottery has a number of games, some of which are daily, and other that appear a few times a wekk. The Daily 3 is a lottery that is drawn twice a day, midday and evening. The other daily lotteries, the Daily 4 and Daily Derby, are only drawn at night. Fantasy 5 is similar to daily Derby, but it appears a few times a week and has a larger grand prize. The Super Lotto and Mega Millions are multi-million dollar lotteries that are played twice a week.http://www.calottery.com/Games/

All of the televised, regular lottery ticket games sold by the California Lottery cost $1 to play. The prize money that can be won on each of these games depends on the odds of winning, games with more numbers and a wider range of numbers generally have high grand prizes. The Daily 3 and Daily 4 games have the lowest payouts. The fantasy 5 and Daily Derby payouts are more, paying low six-figure numbers most of the time. Super Lotto and the national Mega Millions game have the largest grand prizes, each grand prize is worth at least $10 million and usually well above that mark.http://www.calottery.com/Games/