Promotions

Your Mega Millions Ticket Could Win You Even MORE! 

From September 1 – October 31, 2025, playing Mega Millions with the DC Lottery could make you a DOUBLE winner!

Spend $5 or more on a single Mega Millions ticket at any DC Lottery retailer and you’ll receive a special 2nd Chance Prize Code printed right on your ticket.

Enter your code on the DC Lottery Second Chance website and you’ll be in the running for up to $25,000 in CASH!

Here’s how many entries you receive:

 $5 ticket = 1 entry

$10 ticket = 3 entries

$20+ ticket = 7 entries

At the end of the promotion, 21 lucky winners will score BIG:

• One (1) Grand Prize – $25,000
• Five (5) Winners – $5,000 each
• Fifteen (15) Winners – $1,000 each

Purchase, Play, and enter your code for a second chance to win BIG!

During the contest period (August 6th, 2025, through February 8th, 2026) every NON-WINNING $5 Washington Commanders scratcher is eligible for entry into the 2nd Chance Contest. Scratch the bottom of your ticket to reveal the second chance prize code and enter for a second chance to win the once in a lifetime experiential prize such as a Game Day VIP Experience along with cash, team merchandise, or 2026 Washington Commanders season tickets!

With a top prize of $2,000,000 and a Second Chance worth $500,000, DC Lottery's first-ever $50 scratcher is literally larger than life! It's our biggest scratcher ever, too, with over $18,000,000 in total prizes and a chance to multiply up to 500 times. There are so many ways to win—get your Extreme Fortune 500X scratcher from your local DC Lottery retailer...now!

Receive a FREE Fast Play $1 Fast Numbers ticket with the purchase of a Keno ticket!

All September (9/1/25 - 9/30/25), when you purchase $5 or more of Keno on a single ticket, you will receive a Fast Play $1 Fast Numbers ticket! It's just that simple—your FREE $1 Fast Numbers trailing ticket will print after you purchase the initial $5 or more Keno ticket. 

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During September, get ready for an exciting twist during the DC 3 Evening drawings (7:50 pm). 

Special Drawing:

Following each DC 3 Evening drawing, a single ball will be chosen at random from a pool containing six white balls and one red ball. If a white ball is selected, there will be no Double Draw. The chosen ball will be removed, increasing the chances of the red ball being drawn.

Double Draw:

When a red ball is drawn, brace yourself for the Double Draw, giving you a second opportunity to win big. Once the Double Draw takes place, the pool resets to six white balls and one red ball for the next DC 3 Evening drawing (7:50 pm). Throughout the promotion, all DC 3 tickets purchased for the Evening drawing (7:50 pm) are eligible to win in both the main drawing and the Double Draw, which occurs at least once per week.

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Every Friday this September (9/5, 9/12, 9/19, and 9/26), purchase $3 or more on Race2Riches on a single ticket from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and receive a $1 DC 2 (straight play) Quick Pick! Your FREE DC 2 Quick Pick trailing ticket will print after purchasing the initial $3 or more Race2Riches ticket.