Minnesota Lottery Daily 3 General Information and Links

How to Play Minnesota Daily 3 Lottery

First off, walk into any retailer (a gas station, a convenience store, a food store, etc. which plays Minnesota Lottery) and grab a Daily 3 playslip. Mark the 3 digits of your number on the appropriate positions where the first, second, and third digits should be. Choose and mark the play type and the amount you want to wager.

Next present your completed playslip to the retailer with the total amount due. The retailer will print out the the Daily 3 lottery ticket. Keep your ticket at a safe place.

Play Types and How You Win the Minnesota Daily 3 Lottery

There are six ways you can play the Minnesota Daily 3 game - five basic types and one shortcut of the basic. These types together with how much is paid for a winning Minnesota Daily 3 number are listed below.

The basic Daily 3 play types are:

1. Straight: You win by matching numbers in the exact order drawn. For example, if you play the Daily 3 number 287 as straight, you'll win only if the winning number is 287; you don't win anything if the winning number is 278 or 286.

   The prize of Minnesota Daily 3 Straight game is $500 for a $1 1-game and $250 each for a 50¢ game.

2. Box: You win by matching numbers in any order. For example, if you play the number 287 as Box, you'll win if the Daily 3 winning number contains the three digits 2, 7, and 8 in any order, such as 872 or 728; but not if any one is missing like 286.

   The prize of Minnesota Daily 3 Box play depends on whether one of the digits is repeated or not. A number such as 287, where none of the digits repeats is called a 6-way box and pays $80 for a $1 game and $40 for a 50¢ game. If one of the digits is double, like 282, then it is called a 3-way box and pays $160 for a $1 game and $80 for a 50¢ game. There is no Box play for numbers with all three identical digits such as 666. These Daily 3 numbers can only be played Straight.

3. Front Pair: Just select the first two digits to win $50 for a $1 game and $25 for a 50-cents game. For example, if you play the front pair 28 (i.e., 28X), you'll win as long as the first two digits of the winning number are 28 in exact order. So, you'll win with 280, 281, etc., but not with 820 or 028.

4. Back Pair: Just select the last two digits to win $50 for a $1 game and $25 for a 50-cents game. For example, if you play the back pair 87 (i.e., X87), you'll win as long as the last two digits of the winning number are 87 in exact order. So, you'll win with 087, 187, etc., but not with 078 or 870.

5. First Digit: Just select only the first digits to win $5 for a $1 game and $2.50 for a 50-cents game. For example, if you play the digit 2, you'll win as long as the first digit of the winning number is 2. So, you'll win with 200, 299, etc., but not with 020 or 002.

And the shortcut play type is:

6. Straight/Box: is simply a combination of a 50¢ Straight play and a 50¢ Box play.

   The prize of a Straight/Box play is the sum of a 50¢ Straight game and a 50¢ Box game. For example, if you play 287 as Straight/Box, and if the winning number is 287, then you'll win $290 ($250 for the Straight part + $40 for the Box part). If the winning number is 278, you'll win only $40 for the box part since you did not match it Straight. How much do you win with Straight/Box of the number 282? (Answer)

Unlike other states, there is no Combo play type in Minnesota. If you want to win $500 on the number 287 in any arrangement of the digits, then you have to play all the possible combinations, namely, 278, 872, 287, 728, 827, and 782, for $1 each. If Minnesota had a Combo play, it have been sufficient to play just one panel and mark it as Combo (still paying $6).

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Odds and Prizes of Minnesota Daily 3

A summary of the odds of winning and winner prizes for the basic play types and for $1 bet:

Note that a 6-way Box is a number with three non-identical digits, a 3-way Box has one of the digits doubled. Pairs are printed on your ticket with X representing "any", e.g. front pair 40X and back pair X09, which means that X can be any digit.

For Minnesota Lottery general rules and how to claim prizes, please see Minnesota Lottery general info page.

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Links to some Daily 3 pages of the Minnesota Lottery Official Web Site

Although we have tried to cover all the pertinent information of the Minnesota Daily 3, we recommend that you also look at the following pages at the Minnesota Lottery official web site.

• Minnesota Lottery Daily 3 game information
• Minnesota Lottery Daily 3 Game Procedures

Minnesota Daily 3 at US-Lotteries.com

The main purpose of this web site (US-Lotteries.com) is to present a well formatted latest and past results; analysis and statistics of past winning numbers, digits, pairs, triads; search to see if your favorite numbers have ever won or have come close to winning the jackpot; mathematical tools such as combinations generators and wheels. The complete list of all Minnesota Daily 3 pages of this web site are listed below.

• Minnesota lottery Daily 3 summary of page contents with latest and recent results
• All past winning numbers of the Minnesota lottery Daily 3 displayed on a monthly calendar
• Search for the past performace of any Minnesota lottery Daily 3 with full or partial match
• Yearly Minnesota lottery Daily 3 winning numbers on a calendar for printing
• Classification and history of Minnesota lottery Daily 3 Boxes(Combos)
• Data on Minnesota lottery Daily 3 triple-digit numbers
• Frequency and last appearance of Minnesota lottery Daily 3 individual digits
• Minnesota Daily 3 exact order statistics with least and most frequently drawn, never drawn numbers
• Minnesota Daily 3 any order (box) statistics for the different groups
• Frequency and last appearance of Minnesota lottery Daily 3 front, back and split pairs
• Statistics of Minnesota lottery Daily 3 sum of digits
• Generate Minnesota Daily 3 combinations from a number with 2 or more digits

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